[1st-mile-nm] TeraGrid Applications in NM

[Richard Lowenberg]

The following is a description of one of the presentations being given
this week at the National TeraGrid Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.   Of
interest to this list, such initiatives will require greater 'true'
broadband access for New Mexico education, research, economic and
culturally developing communities.   The conference web site provides
links to a description of the TeraGrid Project, presentations and other
related resources.
	www.union.wisc.edu/teragrid07/

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The Internet to the Hogan and Dine' Grid Project
M. Trebian, T. Davis, J. Ribble, J. Arviso

The Internet To The Hogan and Dine' Grid is a project designed to
fundamentally change the socio-economic realities for the Navajo Nation
through the building of a cutting-edge cyberinfrastructure connecting
Navajo communities to the global scientific community.

The ultimate outcome is to end the digital divide, starting with
communities surrounding Navajo Technical College, by building a high-speed
wireless backbone with OC3 bandwidth that joins with communities such as
the TeraGrid through the Lambda Rail and Internet2 from Alburquerque, NM
and the ABQ GigaPop.   The OC3 backhaul will connect through communities
in the Navajo Nation and the Pueblo Nation over a 120 mile path using
Harris radio technologies.   Collaborations and agreements between
sovereign nations were negotiated and the resources of the global
scientific community were brought to bear to make the backbone a reality.

After making the connection to Navajo Technical College the build out will
continue to 52 chapterhouses and community centers surrounding the
college.   Motorola Canopy technologies will be installed that will
provide broadband wireless coverage at each chapterhouse and community
center out to a radius of 30 miles.   Another aspect of the
cyberinfrastructure implementation is the establishment of supercluster
technologies on campus and distributed cluster technologies at the
chapterhouses and community centers through the LittleFe project.

The Dine' Grid will be more than just a distributed computing network
where communities will have the opportunity for direct access to computing
resources they would normally never have available.   Teaching and
learning will occur to provide communities the opportunity to be
contributors to the maintenance and expansion of the grid resources being
made available to them in this project and to science occurring in and
outside their communities.   E-learning and telephony services will be
made available through the application of open source products.
Collaborations and on-going relationships will be fostered through
interactions with member communities of the TeraGrid to create research
opportunities that have a direct impact on the communities touched by the
project.   Finally, a technology transfer model will be designed to create
enterprises and entrepreneurships that can successfully compete in niche
and national markets as intellectual human resources are built in the
Navajo Nation that can construct a new economic structure through well
prepared human capital for the high value, high intellect jobs and tasks
of the Twenty-first Century.


"TeraGrid is an open scientific discovery infrastructure funded by the
National Science Foundation.   TeraGrid combines leadership class
resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent
computational resource.   TeraGrid provides more than 150 teraflops of
computing power and nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, numerous
scientific data collections, specialized data analysis tools, scientific
gateways and user portals to simplify access to valuable resources, and
visualization resources all interconnected via a high-speed
gigabits/second dedicated national network."


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Richard Lowenberg
P.O.Box 8001, Santa Fe, NM 87504
505-989-9110,  505-603-5200 cell

New Mexico Broadband Initiative
www.1st-mile.com/newmexico
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