<html><body><span style="font-family:Verdana; color:#000000; font-size:10pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Volume 5, Issue 1 <br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">February 10, 2009<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The
Western Hemisphere Research and Education Networks (WHREN)-Links
Interconnecting Latin America (LILA) Report summarizes activities from
participating networks. The WHREN-LILA Report is published under
National Science Foundation (NSF) Award # 0441095 and Academic Network
at São Paulo (ANSP) award Projeto Fapesp no. 04/14414-2.<br><br>February 2009 Issue:<br>1. WHREN-LILA Activities<br>2. FIU-CIARA Activities<br>3. AMPATH Activities<br>4. AtlanticWaveActivities<br>5. CENIC and Pacfic Wave Activities<br>6. Pacific Wave Activities<br>7. CUDI Activities<br>8. CLARA Activities<br>9. RNP Activities<br><br>SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION<br><br><b>1. WHREN-LILA Activities</b><br></font> <div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ccchen%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The adoption of cyberinfrastructure tools is changing the
practices of science towards network dependent collaborations to support data
intensive science. This phenomenon has started to accelerate as a result of the
international researcy network connections providing a high-availability
science and engineering research and education production environment to
support science in the western hemisphere.
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Environmental
Sensor Networks: In the U.S.,
the WATERS and the GLEON lakes research projects are creating and sharing
knowledge with similar projects in Argentina (see The Pan-American Sensors for
Environmental Observatories (PASEO) Workshop report at <a href="https://eng.ucmerced.edu/paseo/">https://eng.ucmerced.edu/paseo/</a>). In Costa Rica, an environmental sensor
network will be installed at the La Selva rain forest. This sensor network will draw many U.S.
scientists to work at La Selva, as well as across the RedCLARA network
infrastructure that connects Costa Rica to the U.S. (<a href="http://tracsvn.nhm.ku.edu/projects/sensornet">http://tracsvn.nhm.ku.edu/projects/sensornet</a>).</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">These nascent collaborations that are in formation between
the U.S. and Argentina, and also the U.S. with Central America, should produce
notable scientific discoveries that will be the result of international
collaborative science enabled by the WHREN-LILA network infrastructure.</font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;text-align: justify;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">High-Energy Particle Physics: The U.S. CMS program is now using two IRNC
links to reach Brazil, CERN and the European Tier1s. Open AUP (Acceptable Use Policy)
high-throughput network infrastructure in the U.S., such as the AtlanticWave
and CaveWave, are being leveraged to make the connections to the WHREN-LILA and
TransLight/StarLight IRNC links to establish layer 2 services between Brazil
and CERN. Findings have informed the U.S. CMS team that the enhanced
connectivity has provided them with more capabilities to divide work across the
Tier1s in the U.S. and the Tier2s in Brazil, lessening the workload on the U.S.
Tier1.</font></div>
</div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about WHREN-LILA, visit <a href="http://www.whren-lila.net/" target="_blank">http://www.whren-lila.net</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b>2. FIU-CIARA Activities</b><br></font><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ccchen%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Florida International University's Dr. Heidi L. Alvarez of
the Center for Internet Augmented Research & Assessment (CIARA) and Dr.
Masoud Sadjadi of the Engineering's School of Computer Science presented a
seminar at the EduCause Learning Initiative (ELI) Annual Meeting; Participation
and Collaboration: Social Learning for the 21st Century on January
20-22, 2009 at the Caribe Royale Hotel and Conference in Orlando, Florida. The conference was attended by faculty, IT
and libraries staff, instructional designers, and administrators from U.S. and
international institutions to share ideas and explore teaching and learning
with technology. <br><br>This year's conference
theme sought answers to questions such as; When it comes to cultivating
participation and collaboration in the on campus, what works? How are faculty
leveraging technology to create meaningful learner-centered experiences that
bring students together over shared ideas? ELI is embarking on a community-wide
effort to surface and synthesize those challenges facing teaching and learning
with IT in higher education, and Global CyberBridges was identified to help
with that pursuit following Educause's publication of a white paper edited by
Diana Oblinger (ELI Paper 8: September,2007)<br><br></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read the white paper at <a href="http://www.educause.edu/search?quick_query=Global+CyberBridges+White+PAPER&Image1.x=0&Image1.y=0">http://www.educause.edu/search?quick_query=Global+CyberBridges+White+PAPER&Image1.x=0&Image1.y=0</a></font>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please
visit <a href="http://ciara.fiu.edu/events.html">http://ciara.fiu.edu/events.html</a> to see Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Sadjadi's PowerPoint
Presentations for the ELI preconference workshops <a href="http://net.educause.edu/Program/1016197%20/">http://net.educause.edu/Program/1016197/</a>. </font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>For
more information about FIU-CIARA, please visit <a href="http://ciara.fiu.edu/">http://ciara.fiu.edu</a></font>
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<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b>3. AMPATH Activities</b><br></font> <div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ccchen%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The State University of Sao Paulo (UNESP) is deploying a
grid-enabled geographically distributed infrastructure testbed for leveraging
research and dissemination activities in Grid Computing. The initial deployment has included a pair of
servers located at AMPATH, in Miami.
These servers will be dynamically configured using cutting-edge
virtualization technologies and using the Open Science Grid (OSG) middleware to
make the distributed clusters of virtual servers work together as a coherent,
geographically distributed Grid infrastructure. AMPATH has been facilitating access to the
Open Science Grid as a component of CHEPREO (the inter-regional Center for
High-Energy Physics Research and Education and Outreach), <a href="http://www.chepreo.org/">http://www.chepreo.org/</a>, for FIU's Tier3 and
Brazil's Tier2 facilities to participate in the LHC CMS collaboration. </font></div>
</div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about AMPATH, please visit: <a href="http://www.ampath.net/" target="_blank">http://www.ampath.net/</a></font> </div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b>4. AtlanticWave Activities<br></b></font> <div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Participating in the UNESCO International Year of Astronomy
e-VLBI demonstration (see PacificWave and CENIC activities below for more
information about the event), the Arecibo antenna in Puerto Rico, with its
network connection at the University of Puerto Rico to AMPATH in Miami,
achieved another milestone with its performance. "Arecibo's performance was so solid that the correlator
was switched to use Arecibo
as the reference antenna during our limited source coverage", stated Dr. Arun Venkataraman,
Head, Computer DepartmentNAIC/Arecibo Observatory.<br><br>In May 2008, AtlanticWave in collaboration with
StarLight/Translight and SurfNet, established an end-to-end vlan from Arecibo, in Puerto Rico, to JIVE, in the Netherlands. The NSF IRNC StarLight/Translight project,
connecting the U.S. to Europe, is utilized for the connection to JIVE. Using its connection to AtlanticWave, Arecibo
has participated in three e-VLBI events coordinated by JIVE, which included the
TERENA conference, May 2008 and the International Year of Astronomy, January
2009. Arecibo achieved milestones of
performance improvements in all three events.
<br><br>More information about the event can be found at <a href="http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/news/2009/IYA-e-VLBI/">http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/news/2009/IYA-e-VLBI/</a>
and the links in the PacificWave article.<a href="http://www.glif.is/meetings/2008/plenary/ibarra-atlanticwave.pdf" target="_blank"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ccchen%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In January 2009, as part of the opening ceremonies for the
International Year of Astronomy, 17 telescopes in Australia, Asia, Europe,
North American and South America conducted a nearly continuous 32-hour
observation of three quasars which are some of the most distant objects known
in the Universe. Using an astronomical technique called electronic, real-time
Very Long Baseline Interferometry or e-VLBI, the participating telescopes
observed the same region of sky simultaneously and allowed astronomers to
generate images of these cosmic radio sources with up to one hundred times
better resolution that images from the best optical telescopes. The data from
each telescope was combined and processed in such a way that it simulated a
telescope as large as the Earth. The ability to send data electronically and to
process it in real-time has the additional advantage of providing data to
astronomers within hours of conducting the observations, rather than weeks
later via the traditional method of recording data onto disks and shipping it
to a central location for processing.<br><br>
The Joint Institute for VLBI in Europe (JIVE) coordinated these observations.
The data from each telescope was streamed through high-speed networks to a
central processor at JIVE in the Netherlands.<br><br>
The sister telescopes of The DISH, located at Narrabri and Coonabarabran are
two of the radio telescopes involved. CSIRO astronomers Dr Chris Phillips and
Dr Tasso Tzioumis controled these radio telescopes remotely from Sydney. The
University of Tasmania's 26 metre telescope near Hobart was the other
Australian radio telescope taking part. The Australian Academic and Research
Network (AARNET) provided the internet services for transmitting the data to
Europe for real-time processing and used one of the SX-Transport links on their
Translight/Pacific Wave connection to then get to CANARIE and then onto JIVE.
In preparation for the event, several networking issues needed to be resolved
including firewalling a server in CSIRO, installing an "Ethernet
break" on CANARIE and fixing dropped packets on a switch at the ATCA.</font>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Data from the three Australian telescopes were transferred
over the AARNet3 network to the correlator at the Joint Institute for VLBI in
Europe (JIVE) in the Netherlands using SXTransport, CENIC, CANARIE and SURFNet6
international links.<br><br>
CSIRO astronomer Dr Chris Phillips notes; "This demonstration is an
unprecedented and extraordinary feat of coordination, involving 17 telescopes
and 28 data networks around the world."<br><br>
For more on this extraordinary event, please see the following links:<br><a href="http://www.crn.com.au/News/92853,aussie-telescopes-join-global-networked-space-imaging-project.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.crn.com.au/News/92853,aussie-telescopes-join-global-networked-space-imaging-project.aspx</a><br><br><a href="http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/37818699.html" target="_blank">http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/37818699.html</a><br><br>
For more information on CENIC, see <a href="http://www.cenic.org/">http://www.cenic.org</a><br>
For more on Pacific Wave see <a href="http://www.pacificwave.net/" target="_blank">http://www.pacificwave.net</a></font>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In December 2008, several demonstrations at the recent
CINEGRID 2008 Workshop held in San Diego, California utilized Pacific Wave
facilities for their demonstrations.<br><br>
One session was "Telematics for Distributed Collaborative Audio
Post-Production" and was a collaboration of UCSD/Calit2, UCI/Calit2, University
of Washington/Research Channel, and Skywalker Sound. UWTV participated with
CalIT2 and Skywalker Sound for their demonstration. In addition to the remote
audio connection, they did an iHDTV link between Studio M in Seattle and the
auditorium at CalIT2. The demonstration illustrated how post production audio
could be done collaboratively over the Internet in real time. Each distributed
audio workstation controlled a separate audio function (sound track, sound
effects, vocal, etc). All sites had video display with time code. Most of the
interaction between the sound engineers was via VoIP with exception of Seattle
which included live video of the engineer via iHDTV. It was a very impressive
demonstration. <br><br>
The other session that utilized Pacific Wave was Global Visualcasting.
NTT/GEMNET used 4K cameras in Japan at Keio University and San Diego at
Calit2/UCSD and a 2K camera in Chicago at UIC/EVL. A research paper is progress
that will discuss the results.<br><br>
For more about the CINEGRID workshops, please see <a href="http://www.cinegrid.org/" target="_blank">http://www.cinegrid.org/</a></font>
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<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about Pacific Wave, see <a href="http://www.pacificwave.net/">http://www.pacificwave.net</a><br style=""><br><b>7. CUDI Activities</b><br></font>
<div style="font-size:12pt;; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The College of Science and Technology of the State of Mexico
(CECyTEM), opened its link to Internet 2 in Mexico<br><br>Maria Guadalupe Monter Flores, the Secretary of Education in
the state, witnessed the entrance of the College of Science and Technology of
the State of Mexico (CECyTEM), led by Mr. Javier Cruz Cepeda, Director General
of CECyTEM, to the University Corporation for Internet Development AC (CUDI).
CUDI is a promoter and the coordinator of Internet2 in Mexico. This action will
enable the Directorate General of its campuses and CECyTEM Coacalco, Metepec,
and Valle de Chalco Tultitlán solidarity in its first stage. The campuses will
participate in the scientific and academic exchange of information with
national and international institutions of the network, including 115
universities, research institutions from the public, private and social
enterprises and a large academic network aimed at promoting the potential of
new technologies in education.<br><br>The aim is that the 45 campuses of CECyTEM with
videoconferencing equipment will also be able to share these benefits. <br><br>Read full article at <a href="http://www.cudi.edu.mx/boletin/2009/01_boletin_enero_04.html">http://www.cudi.edu.mx/boletin/2009/01_boletin_enero_04.html</a><br>For more information on CUDI,
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The Federal University of Río de Janeiro (UFRJ), a member of
RedCLARA, and the University
of Tsinghua, China, announced the creation of the Chinese-Brazilian Center
for the Innovation of Technology, Climate Change and Energy. <br><br>
The Center, located at the University of Tsinghua in Beijing received a nearly
$ 1 million initial investment by the Brazilian Agency of Innovation, Research
and Project Financing. The Brazilian part of the center will be in charge of
the Coordination of Post-Graduate Engineering Projects (CPIP) of the UFR. </font>
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Segen Estefan, president of technology and research of the CPIP indicates that
the seed of this cooperation started when the Chinese visited their scientific
institution in Brazil and saw the projects in fields such as the
Biocombustibles, the discovery of oil in deep waters and the sources of clean
energy, all which coincide with the Chinese interests. </font>
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One of the main goals of the center is to raise the sources of information on
Biocombustibles from Brazil and China in order to develop common approaches for
their use. Also, research will be done to estimate the gas emissions of both
countries. This data will be reported to their respective governments so that
gas emissions can be reduced.</font>
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"We will increase the number of projects and the financing when the center
starts to operate," said Estefan. "The physical infrastructure will
also increase from an increase of activities and the exchange of
researchers." It is anticipated that there will be an exchange of students
and post docs between both countries. <br><br>
"Both countries are as one in cooperation between the two universities but
also the level of the governments of Brazil and China," ensures Estefan. </font>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read full article at <a href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?http://apc-clara.reuna.cl?AA_SL_Session=e343517e6013fa0699f5dd2abccc5dda&x=13306">http://apc-clara.reuna.cl/canal1.shtml?<a href="http://apc-clara.reuna.cl">http://apc-clara.reuna.cl</a>?AA_SL_Session=e343517e6013fa0699f5dd2abccc5dda&x=13306</a></font></div>
<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about CLARA, visit <a href="http://www.redclara.net/" target="_blank">http://www.redclara.net</a></font> </div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br><b>9. RNP Activities</b><br></font><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name="ProgId" content="Word.Document"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><meta name="Originator" content="Microsoft Word 11"><link href="file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5Ccchen%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml" rel="File-List"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The World Social Forum (WSF) started on 27 January and runs
until February 1 at Belém do Pará, with an estimated audience of around 120,000
people and 5,680 participating organizations. The event has the support of the
RNP, providing connectivity through the PoP-PA. </font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">"The RNP is draining traffic from FSM by a connection
of 102 Mbps. That is, the traffic generated by the event can go through our
infrastructure to reach a customer of ours, another academic network or even a commercial
network," explained Ari Frazão , the manager of the Center of Engineering
and Operations (CEO) of the RNP. He also said that there was dedicated reserve
bandwidth to ensure a slice of the current connection for the WSF. </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The WSF takes place in the campuses of the Federal
University of Pará (UFPA) and the University of Amazonia (UFRA) and has more
than 2,400 activities (sessions, conferences, lectures, workshops, cultural and
sporting events) proposed by organizations around the world . </font></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">With the slogan "Another world is possible," the event
brings together civil society represented by social movements, traditional
peoples, NGOs, trade unions and religious groups of more than 150 countries
from all continents. They will discuss the global economic crisis, climate
change and alternative development models.<br><br></font></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Read full article at <a href="http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2009/not-090127b.html">http://www.rnp.br/noticias/2009/not-090127b.html</a></font></div>
<font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font> <div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12pt;;"><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">For more information about RNP, visit <a href="http://www.rnp.br/en/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.rnp.br/en/index.php</a></font></div> <font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-weight: bold;"></font></div><font size="2" face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION<br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">The
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