The 2020 Global Summit was scheduled to take place March 29-April 1 in Indianapolis, IN, but was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The 2019 Global Summit was held from March 5-8 in Washington, D.C.

The 2018 Global Summit was held from May 6-9 in San Diego, CA.

The 2019 Technology Exchange was held from December 9-12 in New Orleans, LA.

The 2018 Technology Exchange was held from October 15-18 in Orlando, FL.

This workshop delivered the experience of high-performance computing on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Researchers can create clusters for running large-scale computations to accelerate the research in multiple branches of science and engineering like drug discovery, genomics, weather forecasting, space exploration, and more.

This virtual, hands-on workshop provided a conceptual understanding of COmanage, and the technical know-how to get this solution up and running. Go to the COmanage workshop page to learn more.

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The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) and Internet2 held a special webinar on Thursday, March 18 to highlight new data on-campus IT infrastructure needs to help you support your institution’s research mission.

For many institutions that continue to provide access to postsecondary education for historically underserved communities, their paths in doing so have been anything but uniform. That is also true for how they support their faculty and researchers, particularly those whose work requires high-speed broadband, access to resources in the cloud, and high-performance computing capabilities.

Together with Internet2, the MS-CC gathered survey results and direct feedback on data and computing infrastructure in late 2020 from 291 respondents across 144 institutions that include HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and MSIs.

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As online learning continues to be a priority, video storage solutions have become a critical component in facilitating student success and driving higher education operations.

This NET+ presentation with the University of Iowa discussed establishing a content retention policy using the Panopto service offering, a video management platform. David Long, Associate Director, Enterprise Instructional Technology at the University of Iowa, walked us through their content retention journey. Read the related blog post.

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Internet2 Industry members have a shared goal – advancing technology options for the research and education community. The Internet2 Industry Member Lightning Lounge (IMLL) allowed Industry members to update the community on the most important current news via a two-minute lightning talk, followed by a chance for individual conversations, all in a 60-minute virtual event. Read the related blog post.

The March IAM Online webinar featured an overview and discussion of the newly minted eduroam (US) Best Practices Guide, produced by the eduroam-US Advisory Committee. The guide examines tools and strategies for deploying and running eduroam in an interoperable and scalable way.

Our webinars are held on the second Wednesday of every month. They are held at 2 pm ET, 1 p.m. CT, Noon MT, and 11 a.m .PT.

This hands-on webinar was designed specifically for the Internet2 community on the basics of IPv6 address planning and enabling hosted services. This webinar helps you better understand IPv6 address planning, how to determine the right block size for your organization, and how to plan for growth. It equips you with some pointers on how to enable IPv6 on your hosted services including web servers and email. We use real-life examples and an opportunity to try your hand at planning for your own organization!

Topics include:

1. Comparing what you know about IPv4 and IPv6
2. Understanding the building blocks of IPv6
3. Building an address plan
4. Avoiding common mistakes
5. Determining the right block size for your organization
6. Planning for growth
7. Overcoming the challenges of hosting IPv6-reachable services

This virtual workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged software — including configuration and operation. Both the Identity and Service Provider packages can be pre-configured to integrate out of the box with the InCommon Federation using recommended defaults. Go to the Shibboleth workshop page to learn more.

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In partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Internet2 provided this virtual event designed to aid Higher Education researchers leverage new self-service, managed, cloud-based research environment solutions. During the session, participants were introduced to two new solutions — RONIN and Service Workbench on AWS — that are helping researchers from the University of Sydney and Harvard Medical School quickly and securely set up managed research compute environments. Additionally, there was an AWS Solutions Architect participating and available to answer any technical questions that you may have. Learn more from this related blog post.

This workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged Grouper software with a focus on learning and using core Grouper features to implement the access control models described in the Grouper Deployment Guide. The sessions included a mix of self-paced learning, lectures, hands-on training, and discussion. Go to the Grouper Workshop page for more information.

This IAM Online event featured how and why the University of Minnesota expanded its Identity and Access Management team from three to 18 and counting. From CIO Bernie Gulechek to the IAM boots on the ground, you’ll hear about the organizational journey and experience the highs and lows of the evolving structure. Even if you aren’t thinking about this right now, the webinar could spark ideas on how your campus team could be organized. Get more information on the InCommon IAM Online web page.

In late 2020, a leadership consortium from minority-serving institutions (MSIs)—including historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and Hispanic-serving institutions (HSIs)—worked with Internet2 to gather data and more information on computing infrastructure that may bring needed resources and funding opportunities and overall priority setting for MSIs of cyberinfrastructure improvements.

This webinar offered the opportunity to learn more about recent survey results and how the information could help inform future directions for collaboration initiatives, such as access and funding to advanced research cyberinfrastructure, professional development, and training opportunities. View the recording and download the presentation.

The webinar focused on the following key survey findings:

• The need for basic broadband infrastructure on campus and at home for students, staff, and faculty;
• Workforce development gaps and opportunities for professional skill development in the areas of data, computing, and research;
• The need for strong collaboration across MSI constituencies like HBCUs, TCUs, and HSIs; and
• How administrators across institutions need more accessible and responsive data infrastructure to support ongoing operations.

More information about the MS-CC and Internet2 collaboration can be found here.

Internet2 welcomed current and prospective Affiliate and Federal Affiliate members for a Town Hall meeting on Friday, Jan. 29. Affiliate members include non-profit organizations (excluding K-12 schools) that are research- and/or education-oriented. Federal Affiliate members include federal government departments, agencies, laboratories, and other like units.  The event featured updates regarding Net+ services, the Next Generation Internet (NGI) platform, and network-based solutions such as Cloud Connect and RPI. View the recording and download the presentations.

Eric Grancher, head of the Database Services Group, IT department at CERN, discussed how Oracle solutions support the control systems for the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. View the recording.

The National Science Foundation has announced another Campus Cyberinfrastructure funding program and it again includes InCommon Federation requirements. Are you planning to respond to the National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) solicitation? Looking to better support inter-institutional academic collaboration? Would you like information on including federation capabilities in your cyberinfrastructure plans? This webinar helps you learn more about developing Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CI) plans and how to support the InCommon Federation requirements. Three organizations will share their previously funded CI plans. Moree information on the IAM Online page at incommon.org

Did you miss a TechEXtra event? Listen to the recordings of all of the events!

This event featured remarks from Internet2’s President and CEO Howard Pfeffer and from the new chair of Internet2’s Board of Trustees Pradeep Khosla.

This celebratory virtual event featuring Al Gore and Vint Cerf, along with luminaries and colleagues from research and education to commemorate the 35th anniversary of NSFNET. View the recording and view the program.

This course was intended for identity management architects, identity management system engineers, and deployment partners who will customize, deploy and support midPoint Identity Manager in a way that integrates with the InCommon Trusted Access Platform components

This session provided a detailed view, focusing on the DevOps/NetOps perspective, of the software development tools and processes Internet2 is using to manage the Internet2 Network and deliver services. View the recording.

This UC Davis presentation featured performance computing in medicine. Dr. Igor Vorobyov, PhD, discussed how researchers at the University of California, Davis are using Oracle Cloud to support drug testing in cardiology. This virtual event was the second in a series presented by Oracle focusing on Oracle Cloud HPC solutions for researchers. Learn more in this related blog post.  View the recording.

This virtual workshop focused on the InCommon Trusted Access Platform packaged software —  including configuration and operation. Both the Identity and Service Provider packages can be pre-configured to integrate out of the box with the InCommon Federation using recommended defaults.

This technical tutorial is intended for all users of Cloud Connect who want to understand the technical details of using the Cloud Connect portal to make connections to AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute, or Google Cloud Platform Partner Interconnect. We will begin the webinar with a brief overview of Internet2 Networking for Cloud (including I2PX, Cloud Connect, and Rapid Private Interconnect (RPI), and then we will talk about the process of requesting the service. View Recording.

This event included presentations by community members (CAMP) and the ‘unconference’ Advance CAMP (ACAMP) where topics are proposed/selected on-site. It provided a venue for identity architects, developers, and implementers to explore and discuss topics of broad interest to the community.

Directed self-paced training on this identity registry software. Details.

This webinar describes the experience of putting Route Origin Validation (ROV) in the cloud, the issues we found in getting it to work in our network, and provide an overall summary measurement. View the recording.

“Safer Illinois App: Testing, Tracing, Access in the Face of COVID-19.” Details at the InCommon website.

The first in a series of monthly webcasts, this event detailed how Oracle Cloud HPC solutions combine the performance of on-premises solutions with the elasticity and consumption-based costs of the cloud. These monthly webcasts will cover the high performance computing capabilities from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to build, integrate, migrate, deploy, and secure cloud, mobile and web applications for research. View the recording.

This virtual event brought together campus practitioners who are navigating the changes in higher education operations and administration–with cloud services playing a crucial role. Member institutions discussed their “new normal” for campus operations, implementation strategies, and lessons learned using NET+ solutions. View the recording.

This event featured discussions about the progress being made to existing perfSONAR tools around the world. View the presentations and recordings.