Abstracts



A Challenge to the Research and Education Community: Enabling Innovation through Advanced Networking, Eric Boyd
Historically, the R&E community has played critical role in the advancement of networking, and many of today’s major technology companies have their roots in campuses across the country. Over the past two decades, a great deal of “innovation energy” has been ceded to industry, but coordinated efforts by federal funding agencies and the Internet2 community have begun to recreate the necessary components to enable innovation in the campus environment. This talk will cover the historical context for innovation in advanced networking and recent technical efforts to spur innovation going forward.

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Regional Perspective & ION/Dynes Capabilities for Researchers In Delaware, Greg Palmer
“Big Data” is not just something for the trade magazines to write about. With the explosion of gene sequencing and Bioinformatics in general, the network arteries are feeling the strain. This presentation will look at some of the use cases in the region and how the University of Delaware is meeting the challenge.

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The State of UD’s Network, Jason Cash
UD has redesigned, replaced, or refreshed their entire network infrastructure over the last 3 years. This presentation tells the story of this journey of the state of UD’s network.

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Atlas Live for Delaware Schools, Steve Goldfarb
The ATLAS Experiment at CERN is one of the largest most complex scientific instruments ever constructed. It is designed to explore the inner universe, advancing our understanding of the basic building blocks of nature. Three thousand physicists from 177 institutions in 38 countries around the world participate in ATLAS. When the LHC is in operation, up to 600 million protons collide every second inside the detector. ATLAS Virtual Visits gives the public a unique opportunity to be part of this great scientific adventure. Participants in this session will get to speak live with an ATLAS physicist, receive a guided tour of the control room, and have an opportunity for questions and answers with the researchers and learn how ATLAS Virtual Visits and STEM resources at CERN can be accessed by schools and organizations in Delaware.

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Leveraging the Internet to Extend Capabilities and Reduce Costs in Health-related Research, H. Timothy Bunnell
As reliable broadband internet access reaches an increasing number of homes, the potential value of this resource as a means of constraining costs and expanding coverage for medical research and healthcare delivery continues to grow. Several projects involving the Nemours Bioinformatics Core exemplify the potential advantages and some of the pitfalls that are inherent in extending standard research protocols and delivery models to the internet. This presentation will focus on three such projects. One project seeks to reduce the enormous costs of conducting clinical drug trials by moving frequent clinic visits and at-home record keeping to mobile platforms. If successful, the approach will save time and costs for both participants and care-givers while also improving the immediacy and accuracy of the data that is collected. A second project aims to more tightly connect patients, physicians, and other caregivers with each other and with data from electronic medical records that can be summarized in dashboard form, allowing physicians to see at a glance the effects of clinical practices on individuals or larger groups of patients under their care. The third project allows for the creation of personalized synthetic voices for ALS patients and others with neurodegenerative that will affect the ability to speak. In this project, client software that can be downloaded and installed on a users computer manages the recording of speech data and from those recordings the construction of synthetic voices in concert with a central service which handles the computationally demanding components of the process. Each project illustrates different successes and lessons learned as we move to further integrate networking with health-related research.

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Bio-inspired wireless networking, Louis Rossi
Ant-based protocols have been shown to be an effective way to route data through multihop wired and wireless ad-hoc networks. Ant-based protocols use ‘digital pheromone’ to discover and optimize routes connecting senders and receivers. We will present the basics of ant-based routing protocols, analyze their dynamics and present comparative results with realistic networks. I will also share results on slime-mold inspired sensor network protocols. The slime-mold inspired system is similar to the ant-based routing protocol except that stimergic information evolves through a global pressure field rather than local pheromone concentrations.

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Visualizing Vorticity with BlobFlow, Louis Rossi
The elliptical corrected core spreading vortex method (ECCSVM) is an approach that captures the viscous Navier-Stokes equations on unbounded domains using high order elliptical Gaussian basis functions. BlobFlow is an open, parallel implementation of ECCSVM that facilitates accurate extended calculations of vorticity fields. One of the challenges of using meshfree methods is a dearth of friendly tools for exploring results that are representation as linear combinations of anisotropic basis functions. We present a new tool for visualizing and sharing meshfree, computational results over the internet.

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Sharing our Treasures: Bringing the Library of Congress to You through Internet2, Lee Ann Potter, Peter Armenti, Christine Pruzin
The Library of Congress is home to programs and content with a national and international impact. We maintain and develop online training, symposia, seminars, master classes, presentations, and exhibitions to engage audiences and provide access to our priceless collections and curatorial staff. Now more than ever, the collaborative energies of the Internet2 community are uniquely positioned to assist the Library in expanding the reach of its programs virtually.

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Better Communication for Better Healthcare, Jan Lee
Learn about DHIN (Delaware Health Information Network), its objectives, and how technology and communications will play a role in achieving those objectives.

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Environmental Data Services for Delaware: Serving Emergency Responders, Planners, and Researchers, Kevin Brinson, Christina Callahan, Daniel Leathers
The University of Delaware (UD) serves as home to the Delaware Environmental Observing System (DEOS), a real-time, operational environmental monitoring network of meteorology stations that monitor environmental conditions throughout the State of Delaware. The density of the DEOS network and its real-time nature are a desirable commodity for supporting state and local emergency management and transportation services, as well as the agriculture community with its data and monitoring services. These services utilize a high availability server and database framework and depend on reliable and persistent connectivity to data sources from outside (primarily federal) organizations. This reliability on connectivity is equally vital to the operational nature of the UD Satellite Receiving Station (UDSRS), an environmental satellite data receiving system installed on-campus that provides access to real-time data streams directly broadcasted from satellites as they pass overhead. The products from the UDSRS are voluminous and highly sought-after, and without a strong connection to the Internet, it’s function as a primary environmental monitoring resource would be rendered useless. While these data streams are highly desirable on their own, the aggregation of these products into value-added products is also highly desired by state and local planning and management. Thus, the Delaware Environmental Monitoring & Analysis Center (DEMAC), located at UD, focuses on pulling together these somewhat disparate data products into a series of products and applications that can depict a more holistic perspective of the state of our environment. Once again, network integrity and reliability are paramount for DEMAC to successfully serve its products to its constituents.

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