Internet2 leadership and staff will join researchers, scientists and engineers across the HPC community in Denver for SC19 starting November 17. Look for us in Booth #1281!

The NET+ Cloud Services team is pleased to share a few updates on various cloud services as well as activities at events over the last few months.

au·to·ma·tion: The sequential running of a simple task on one system.
or·ches·tra·tion: An iterative process which uses the plan, do, check, act cycle to maintain consistent state.
It runs complex tasks across many systems.

This informative video shows you what libraries participating in the Measuring Library Broadband Netorks program can expect.

While multi-institutional collaborations on the rise, the data sets that support them are getting too large to transfer easily, the computing resources that they require have increased beyond the capacity of most campuses, and the expertise needed to support compute intensive research is scarce. Join Barr von Oehsen at the 2019 Internet2 Technology Exchange to learn how ERN addresses these challenges by leveraging the special relationship between researchers and the people who build and support research cyberinfrastructure across the Northeast. 

Join the University of Delaware on Dec. 12 at the 2019 Technology Exchange as they share their team’s experience in running Zeek to analyze network traffic on their campus.

It's National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Campuses are promoting cybersecurity and Internet2 is championing cybersecurity in the research and education community.
 

A new meeting series is being planned that will provide a forum to continue the conversations started at the Third National Research Platform (NRP) Workshop last month.

The 2020 Presidential Primary Sources Project, a series of free, standards-aligned, 45-minute interactive videoconferencing programs aimed at students in grades 4-12, is now available for viewing.

In his opening remarks at the National Tribal Broadband Summit, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai described "closing the digital divide" as a matter of life and death.

For the last seven years the Scientific Computing Board (SCB) at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has gathered scientists and information technologists from the agency's seven centers to discuss accomplishments, foster collaboration, and set support priorities for their scientific research and regulatory work. 

The need for real-time information is at an all-time high, driving higher education leaders to make a renewed commitment to providing advanced outbound communications that go beyond traditional communications technology and protocols. 

Montana is empowering libraries to expand broadband access in their communities. The Toward Gigabit Libraries toolkit project created and implemented a toolkit designed to help public and tribal librarians learn about their current broadband infrastructure and internal information technology environment.

We're excited to have announced earlier today that E&I Cooperative Services (E&I) and Internet2 are collaborating on a pilot project to bring together E&I's public procurement expertise and Internet2's cloud expertise, as developed through the Internet2 NET+ program.

Internet2 is hosting weekly Q/A sessions, with advisors from the community and Internet2 staff, to address questions and comments related to new requirements to document routing policies via IRRs. Internet2 staff will provide an introduction to the topic during the first 15 minutes. 

This is an incredibly busy and exciting time at Internet2 and we are delighted to share updates with you on many of the activities that are underway.

The recent Community Architects' Workshop provided an important opportunity for the presentation and discussion of the Next Generation Infrastructure packet and orchestration design plans.