GLORIAD Links Scientists in US, Russia, China, Korea, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Egypt, Singapore and the Nordic Countries with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure
Headlines
- A 1 Gbps link connecting the GLORIAD network with India's National Knowledge Network (NKN) was deployed on the GLORIAD-Taj expansion project (July 2010)
- GLORIAD's PI participated in the US-India Joint Commission Meeting on Science and Technology Cooperation held on June 24-25, 2010 in Washington, DC. See the OSTP White House blog about the event. (July 25, 2010)
- Presentation on "New Vistas in Global Cooperation for Science and Education: India to connect to the GLORIAD network" was featured in the newsletter of the Observer Research Foundation, Mumbai (July 24, 2010)
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UT-based Fiber Optic Network Expands Global Reach (July 22, 2010)
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GLORIAD Featured on University of Tennessee YouTube Channel (July 23, 2010)
Full Article - NSF's Cyber-Network Now Expands Across the Northern Hemisphere and Connects Half the Globe (October 14, 2009)
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Recent Blog Entries
- 2010-09-06 The Economist: Making lighting more efficient could increase energy use, not decrease it
Green IT/Broadband and Cyber-Infrastructure - 2010-08-26 Three Open Source IDS/IPS Engines: The Setup (Bro, Snort, Suricata)
Security Advancements at the Monastery - 2010-08-25 Citizens are playing an increasingly important role in cyber-science
Citizen Science - 2010-07-14 Should funding agencies ban purchase of HPC clusters by university researchers?
Bill St. Arnaud - 2010-06-10 FISMA Reform: Lieberman, Collins, and Carper Introduce Bill
Security Advancements at the Monastery - 2010-06-02 Federated versus Virtual Network solutions for R&E networks
Bill St. Arnaud - 2010-05-31 FedRAMP and Recent Changes Prepare Feds for Cloud Adoption
Security Advancements at the Monastery - 2010-04-01 Must read: The economics of last mile fiber
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Sponsors
GLORIAD's supporters include the US National Science Foundation, a consortium of science organizations and Ministries in Russia with network services provided by the Russian Institute for Public Networking (RIPN), the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Science and Technology of Korea, the CANARIE network of Canada, the Netherlands SURFnet team, NORDUnet and with some telecommunications services donated by our telecomm partner Tata Communications.
GLORIAD's US home is at the Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment of the University of Tennessee.
This web site is provided by the US-Russia Friends & Partners Program.
GLORIAD Community Building Page
From its very roots in a community building project started between the U.S. and Russia in 1994 (see http://www.friends-partners.org/), GLORIAD is, at its core, a community building initiative designed to facilitate and, where possible, encourage productive partnerships in science, education and the broader public sphere of activity. It just so happens that we have to first build networks (electronic and otherwise) to facilitate the cooperation we wish to encourage.
Thus, this community building page is, in a very genuine sense, the "heart and soul" of GLORIAD. While the first two years of GLORIAD (from 2005-2006) were necessarily devoted to building physical infrastructure (and the cooperation and agreement between many international partners to do so together), 2007 and 2008 have been focused on the community building initiatives described below.
As always, we welcome your comments and suggestions (use the Contact link at the bottom of any GLORIAD page).
Community Building Initiatives and Services
- GLORIAD Blog
- We have established Blog software so that those associated with GLORIAD and who wish to contribute to its development can publish their own .. well, blog (on-line journal or newsletter).
- GLORIAD Classroom
- The GLORIAD classroom serves as a large curated information clearinghouse with services made accessible via a dynamically generated, multi-lingual, browser independent web interface, and extended search methods. Additionally, the Classroom notifies users of new content through a flexible “current awareness” service by which new information added and curated each day is made available to subscribers based on their own specified interest/s and disseminated via a user-defined, personalized web interface, as well as by email alerts.
- GLORIAD Email Listservers *
- The listing provided shows all email listservers established on the GLORIAD server. As of 2007-05-24, the primary lists active are "gloriad", "glo-exe", "glo-noc". We are looking for people willing to host and encourage discussion on the other focused listservers.
- GLORIAD Update Newsletter
- This is a series of monthly newsletters, started in May 2007, intended to provide information on GLORIAD activities, accomplishments, plans - as well as special interest stories.
- GLORIAD Wiki for Engineers
- This is a "traditional" wiki designed to enable the international team of GLORIAD network engineers design their own community-driven information base and discussion.
- GLORIAD Podcasts
- The GLORIAD US team is implementing tools such as "podcasts," which facilitate more asynchronous modes of communications and information sharing. This page will host the first GLORIAD podcasts which we intend to begin in early summer 2007.
- GLORIAD Wiki for "The Rest of Us"
- This is a "traditional" wiki offered to enable the international GLORIAD team to define/shape the project, share information, manage services and plan for the future of the program and, more broadly, activities involving and affecting international networking.