Agenda - February 8, 2006

• 8:30 Welcome and DOE High-Performance Networking - Thomas Ndousse
• 9:00 UltraScience Net Update - Nagi Rao
• 9:30 OSCARS System - Chin Guok
• 10:00 HOPI - Rick Summerhill
• 10:30 Break
• 10:45 DRAGON System - Tom Lehman
• 11:15 Control-Plane Technologies - Nasir Ghani
• 11:45 Discussion Item 1: General issues of next-generation networks
  • Need for high-perfomance SC networks
  • Peering of different networks
  • Networking of supercomputers
  • Networking for experimental facilities
• 12:15 Lunch
• 1:00 Discussion Item 2: Data-plane and interconnection Issues
  • Peering and interconnections
  • Provisioning and configuration
• 2:00 Discussion Item 3: Control-plane matters
  • Signaling
  • Scheduling
  • MPLS/GMPLS and centralized schedulers
• 3:00 Discussion item4: Security
  • Data-plane and control-plane connection policies
• 4:00 Discussion Item5; Management and measurement
  • Device management and monitoring
  • Performance monitoring
• 5:00 Summary
• 5:30 Adjourn

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