After addressing the 5 Things to Consider When Deploying High Performance Computing (HPC) to the Cloud, it may be helpful to consider cost and benefits of running HPC workloads in the cloud versus running them on premise. This post will discuss costs for an on prem data center in the Southeast, and instances running in NET+ Amazon Web Services (AWS) and NET+ Google Cloud Platform (GCP), currently in NET+ Service Validation. This is the second of two posts on the HPC in the Cloud BoF from Internet2 Global Summit.

A recap of the first NET+ Box community summit that took place at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Penn., on June 1 and 2, 2017.

In today’s educational market, a cloud-based video conferencing service can really help to stretch limited resources and precious dollars. Learn more about Emory University's success with increasing adoption nearly five-fold through simplified system access, user training and an expansion of use cases in just a couple of years.

In case you were unable to attend Internet2 Global Summit, or were not able to find a seat in our standing-room-only room, this post expands upon the discussion during the HPC in the Cloud BoF session. This will be the first of two posts on this topic.

rSmart today announced the launch of its first Banner® by Ellucian Connector. This new tool provides colleges and universities using Banner systems with the ability to more efficiently create the online concierge tasks within OneCampus by directly importing critical data, reducing keystrokes, and saving time.

Join Jeff Battaglino, director of technical services & support at Seton Hall University on Tuesday, June 27 at 10 a.m. PDT/ 1 p.m. EDT as he shares how they went from using spreadsheets for tracking vulnerability information and remediation progress to a new approach to vulnerability response with ServiceNow. 

A recap of different formal and informal discussions around DDoS mitigation with campuses and regional networks during the 2017 Internet2 Global Summit in Washington, D.C. 

Promoting diversity in technology through scholarship awards – it's the mission created for the Gender Diversity Initiative (GDI) awards, but also a rallying cry for our members. Internet2 member campus CIOs have embraced the GDI program, created in 2014, by nominating bright stars at their schools to experience an Internet2 meeting, attend sessions and working groups, meet fellow technologists, participate in discussions...

On August 1, 2017, the Connector/Network Member Principals will meet in Newport, RI to continue discussion on the future of the ecosystem. Beginning early in 2017, when the Connector/Network Member Principals met in Tempe, AZ, conversation centered on some specific challenges to the ecosystem shared by the Regionals and Internet2.

Sarah Kiden is the head of systems at Uganda Christian University and a facilitator at Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU). In this blog post, she shares her experience attending the 2017 Internet2 Global Summit for the first time as a NSRC-Internet fellowship winner.

Over the past few years I have been asked to give demonstrations (demos) at Internet2 meetings. Being a technical person, it wasn’t something I had regularly done. (And what’s worse, I approached it from a technical angle.) During my first demo I created some slides with a mainly technical focus, stood up and spoke to them and was done. I wasn’t sure how the demo went, but given the many blank stares I was getting at the end, I could take a guess.

The Network Architecture, Operations and Policy Program Advisory Group (NAOPpag) met twice in April, once during the regular meeting time and again during the Internet2 Global Summit. At the first meeting, the NAOP heard a summary of the Internet2 GlobalNOC operations agreement from Rob Vietzke and Dave Jent. They explained that the agreement was created by first determining a set of overarching principles derived from the Operations Excellence Community Steering Team (OECST) report.

By Jim Bottum

The Advanced Research Computing on Campuses (ARCC) workshop is co-locating at PEARC17 this July in New Orleans with the aim to begin the process of more broadly integrating with the on-going PEARC annual conference. To minimize disruption and overlap with the standard program, the ARCC at PEARC will involve a full-day tutorial on Monday July 10, 2017 and then a single parallel session alongside the four other parallel sessions in the technical program on Tuesday and Wednesday, July 11-12, 2017 with shared plenaries, breaks, meals and other activities.
 

The first phase of the community requirements gathering process for the next generation Internet2 infrastructure has completed. The two R&E Community Investment in National-footprint Network Services (RECINNS) working groups met jointly to discuss a draft summary document and next steps.

Facebook has been a leader in an industry effort to reimagine traditional approaches to building and deploying networking infrastructure. Ibrahima Ba, Head of EMEA Infra Connectivity Programs for Facebook, spoke at the Global Summit about networking infrastructure projects at Facebook.

by Klara Jelinkova, VP & CIO of Rice University and Chair of the TIER Community Investor Council

This year’s Global Summit included an exciting Trust and Identity lineup. When you have a moment, watch the keynote from Ian Glazer, a well-known identity expert; the Great Identity Debate on whether SAML is still relevant as the underpinning of federations; and the session providing an overview of the governance changes in Internet2 Trust and Identity. Links to these and other sessions are included in TIER at 2017 Global Summit in DC - A Review.

Trust and Identity and the TIER program were at the forefront of conversations and buzz at the 2017 Global Summit in DC. Ian Glazer, the Tuesday keynote speaker at Global Summit, shared a vision of a trust, identity and security maturity model, and received rave reviews. The Trust and Identity track sessions were well attended and had excellent community participation, with special excitement around the lively Great Identity Debate, hosted by Nicole Harris and Brook Schofield of GÉANT.

The latest TIER release (Release 17040*) includes several new and updated features, including a simplified installation process and a TIER Beacon function that will help developers and investors understand deployment trends. The release includes the latest versions of all three TIER components (Shibboleth 3.3.1, Grouper 2.3.0, and COmanage 2.0.0).

This also begins the TIER continuous release process, in which updates will be incorporated into the software as soon as they are ready for production, rather than waiting for a pre-determined release date. This will enable adopters to quickly take advantage of improvements and new features.