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US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
NSF and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) co-hosted a workshop on "US Ignite Gigabit Applications" at NSF on Monday, May 16, 2011 with the support of many federal agencies and other public and private partners committed to US Ignite (For more information on how this initiative was started, see the January 19 "OSTP Roundtable on Gigabit Applications" http://www.nsf.gov/cise/oad/next_gen_networks.jsp ).
Recent investments in broadband in a number of highly innovative cities and regions across the country, i.e., Chattanooga, TN, Lafayette, LA, Cleveland, OH, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, PA, and regions of Utah, create exciting opportunities for researchers and entrepreneurs to develop novel gigabit applications and services and to deploy them within and across these cities/regions or some subsets of them. Previously, these cities/regions agreed in principle to 1) be open to researcher/entrepreneurial experimentation, and 2) be interconnected with the other cities (via the GENI testbed) and provide high bandwidth, virtualized network access for a small set of experiments.
US Ignite is an initiative to spark the development of killer apps in areas of national priority: health, education, energy, economic development (including advanced manufacturing), transportation, and public safety on an ultra high speed (>100 Mbps up- and download), deeply programmable (not requiring internet protocol) and sliceable network. US Ignite is doing this by: 1) funding researchers and developers to create applications and services, and 2) stitching together an at-scale testbed with real users that researchers, developers, and entrepreneurs can use as a platform to develop applications and services.
The goal of this workshop was to begin pulling together teams of cities, anchor institutions, researchers and app developers, and private and public partners to surface interesting gigabit applications and services that might provide interesting results and demonstrations of what might be possible were broadband more widely available in cities/regions across the country.
Webcast: http://www.tvworldwide.com/events/nsf/110516/default.cfm
Agenda:
US Ignite Gigabit Applications Workshop
National Science Foundation & Office of Science and Technology Policy
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230
Room 375
May 16, 2011 Agenda
8:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast
Please sit at a table of your primary area of interest: energy, health, education, transportation, advanced manufacturing, public safety.
9:00 Welcome Remarks
NSF: Farnam Jahanian, NSF/CISE AD
US Ignite and workshop goals: Nick Maynard, OSTP, and Suzi Iacono, NSF/CISE
Session 1: Next-gen Networking
9:30 A Tale of Six Cities: Resources and Areas of Interest
Goal: Understand the people, network resources, and areas of application interest for each city
Moderator: Heidi Dempsey, GENI Project Office
Lev Gonick, Cleveland, OH
Jim Ingraham, Chattanooga, TN
Geoff Daily, Lafayette, LA
Tegene Baharu, Washington, DC
Todd Marriott, UTOPIA/Salt Lake City region, UT
*Allan Frank, Philadelphia, PA
5 x 10' talks, 10' Q & A
* Afternoon presentation due to scheduling conflict.
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45 US Ignite network infrastructure & resources: What is the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI)?
Goal: Understand the who-what-when-where of GENI
Chip Elliot, GENI Project Office
30' talk, 15' Q&A
Session 2: Next-gen Applications and Services
11:30 Lunch and Research Blitz
Participants have 30 min. to get food and bring it back to NSF to eat during the Research Blitz.
12:00 Lunch and Research Blitz
Moderator: Will Barkis, NSF/CISE
90 sec. presentations from ~20 researchers with Q&A
Goal: Introduce the researchers and their application interests to everyone
1:00 What's a gig good for? Examples of High Bandwidth Applications
Goal: Understand some examples of what can be done with ultra high speed networks
Moderator: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington
Guru Parulkar, Stanford University
David Sailor, Portland State University
Marge Skubic, University of Missouri
Marv Schwartz, Case Western
George Adams, Purdue University
Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University
Jon Taplin, USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
2:15 Tale of Six Cities (continued): Allan Frank, Philadelphia, PA
2:30 Breakout Session: Identify and Articulate an Application or Service
Moderator: Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University
Goal: Interact with each other to identify killer apps and articulate how to build them
Why: Novelty, Impact, Importance
How: Approach & Resources needed; Feasibility; Barriers to overcome
What: Metrics for success; How to evaluate outcomes
Participants sit together at round tables of shared area of application interest
3:15 Coffee break
3:30 Report back/Full Room Discussion
Moderator: Jon Peha, Carnegie Mellon University
Session 3: Partnering across Industry, Government, and Universities
4:00 US Ignite Partnership
Introduction: Farnam Jahanian, NSF/CISE AD
Remarks: Aneesh Chopra, OSTP/USG CTO
US Ignite Partnership Discussion
Goals:
- Identify the range of contributions;
- Ask partners to promise internal discussions of specific contributions;
- Identify more partners, including how to reach out to more researchers/app developers
4:45 Closing Remarks, Suzi Iacono, NSF/CISE
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