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GLORIAD News Bytes - June 2011
News from GLORIAD and Taj, and our Global Partners
Performance and Measurement
See GLORIAD's Monitoring System for constantly updated measurement data.
And go to GLORIADEarth for an interactive visualization of the data (click on GLORIADEarth tab at top of page).
Training
Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC)
July 10-15, 2011
NG REN-NSRC Network Design Workshop The Network Startup Resource center ( NSRC) and the Nigeria ICT Forum of Partnership Institutions will conduct a five-day campus network design and REN development Workshop with a group network engineers from universities throughout Nigeria. The program emphasizes the importance of the campus network as the foundation in developing robust, high performance National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). The principal goal is to help improve university networks in Nigeria to prepare for the creation of the physical infrastructure for a Nigerian Research and Education Network.
Upcoming NSRC Staff and Volunteer Activities Around the World in 2011
Blog Highlights
R&E network JANET to broker cloud services for research at UK universities by Bill St. Arnaud (June 27, 2011)
World's first zero carbon video conference using follow the wind/follow the sun by Bill St. Arnaud - Green IT/Broadband and Cyber-Infrastructure (June 22, 2011)
Some excellent papers on Future of R&E networks by Bill St. Arnaud (June 17, 2011)
NLR to provide national personal genome health services - exciting new opportunity for R&E networks by Bill St. Arnaud (June 8, 2011)
Overview of national wireless network strategies for R&E networks by Bill St. Arnaud (June 7, 2011)
Could the Net be killing the planet one web search at a time by Bill St. Arnaud - Green IT/Broadband and Cyber-Infrastructure (June 6, 2011)
Far-flung data centers could use otherwise unharvestable renewable energy for computation by Bill St. Arnaud - Green IT/Broadband and Cyber-Infrastructure (June 6, 2011)
Momentous changes for R&E networks world wide by Bill St. Arnaud (June 4, 2011)
GLORIAD and GLORIAD/Taj
Center for International Networking Initiatives (CINI)
Institute for a Secure and Sustainable Environment (ISSE)
The University of Tennessee
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GLORIAD Staff
Greg Cole — Director
Anita Colliatie — Assistant Director
Susie Baker — Research Leader
Harika Tandra — Chief Technology Officer
Predrag Radulovic — Senior Network Engineer
Kim Summerfield — Program Manager
Lyn Prowse-Bishop — Virtual Assistant
Naveen Vallabhaneni — Graduate Student Assistant
GLORIAD's measurement, monitoring and cybersecurity systems are driven by Carter Bullard's excellent (and open-source) Argus system.
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