Scalable Information Infrastructure and the
Research University Community

	SC99
	19 November 1999
	Portland, Oregon
	Douglas Van Houweling
	President & CEO, Internet2/UCAID
	DVH@Internet2.edu

Lessons on Scalability from the Internet

	Has grown more than 100% per year since 1985
	Non-hierarchical
	Based on evolving & open standards
	Bottom-up innovation
	Includes small to large-scale testbeds

Internet Development Spiral

The Internet Today

	Hundreds of millions of users
	Web, email, low-quality audio & video
	Applications adapt to underlying technology
	Important, not mission-critical uses
	Scale orders of magnitude beyond the design point

Tomorrow’s Internet

	Billions of users and devices
	Convergence of today’s applications and services with real time rich media environments
	New technologies enable unanticipated applications (and create new challenges)
	Mission-critical uses

Tomorrow’s Internet Requires

	Bigger pipes
	Capacity allocation & assurance
	Core middleware
	Application-enabling middleware
	Exemplary applications

Our Role

	Create leading edge R&E network capability
	Implement required middleware
	Enable new generation of applications
	Provide the platform for scalability research
	Transfer technology and experience to the global Internet

We Hold the Key

	High performance applications
	Middleware innovations and deployment
	Progressively larger testbeds
	Relationships with government and industry
	Research capability to discover, diagnose, and innovate in response to scalability challenges

The Scalability Agenda

	Comprehensively instrument the high performance network environment
	Apply advanced processing, storage, data analysis and modeling tools
	Engage three communities
		Users
		Infrastructure providers
		Computer Science network research