CENIC Today -- August 2007

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Volume 10, Issue 7
September 5, 2007

Welcome to CENIC Today, the monthly newsletter of the Corporation for 
Education Network Initiatives in California.

IN THIS ISSUE:

CENIC News:
    * President's Message: Internet2 and National LambdaRail
    * CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
    * Classrooms Without Boundaries: The Collaboratory at UC Merced
    * 3C Media Solutions Unveils New Website
    * Spotlight on the CCC CETC Ambassador Program
    * The School Year Starts for CalREN Video Services
National Networking News:
    * SciVee, A Collaboration Between SDSC and NSF, To Bring Science To 
YouTube Generation
    * AARNet Lightpath Puts Scientists on the Right Path to Real-Time Data 
Access
    * Clemson University Admitted to High-Speed Network Fraternity
    * WIDE and OSTN Unite to Exchange IPTV Content over the Internet
    * Rocketing Into HIPerSpace: New Visualization System at UC San Diego
    * Preparing Schools for the Next Emergency: Katrina HELP team urges 
educators to get disaster plans ready now
    * Report: Tech support costs on the rise
    * Grids Can Be Green
About CENIC:
    * About CENIC
    * Subscription Information
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CENIC News:

President's Message: Internet2 and National LambdaRail
The Research and Education (R&E) community is currently in the process of 
determining how national network backbone connectivity will be 
provided.  Discussions are underway
at the moment which will either result in the creation of a new 
organization combining <http://www.nlr.net/>National LambdaRail and 
<http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2, or continued service to the R&E 
community using the
existing two-organization model.

Some of the CENIC Today readership will be more familiar than others with 
these two R&E networking organizations and the current efforts to consider 
merging them.  But this
discussion and outcome is important to all CENIC members and users within 
our member institutions.

Internet2 is the older of the two national networking organizations serving 
the R&E community.  Internet2 has served our community well by providing a 
private R&E network
addressing the unique needs of its education and research 
members.  Internet2’s network has enabled new forms of collaboration in 
research and teaching – certainly which were
not possible at the time Internet2 was formed.

Similarly, NLR has served to enable new types of researcher collaboration 
and participation in international networking, focused mostly on Layer 1 
and Layer 2 services but also
on specialized uses of Layer 3 networks – for example, its support of the 
TransitRail commodity peering services.

What is clear is that the R&E community is best served by providing its own 
networking support through an organization or organizations that understand 
the unique and often
forward-looking networking needs of their members. This model, which we 
currently enjoy, gives networking organizations such as CENIC and its 
members the most voice in
services offered and the means of charging for those services.  Whatever 
the outcome of the talks to merge, the R&E community needs to provide for 
its own specialized
networking.

CENIC and its member organizations will be best served and receive the 
highest degree of national networking support by participating to the 
greatest extent possible in the
governance of whatever organization or organizations are created to meet 
our national networking needs. As the organizational approach for providing 
national networking services
is clarified in the next several months, I encourage you to look for 
opportunities to participate in the future of national R&E networking.
-- Jim Dolgonas, CENIC


CalREN Update: Network Projects and Activities
August enabled CENIC to welcome yet another institution to CalREN. During 
the past month, a CalREN-DC connection was put into production in September 
to serve the West
LA Graduate Campus of 
<http://www.pepperdine.edu/>Pepperdine<http://www.pepperdine.edu/> 
University. Pepperdine is an independent, medium-sized university enrolling 
approximately 8,300 students in five colleges and schools.
<http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/>Seaver<http://seaver.pepperdine.edu/> 
College, the <http://law.pepperdine.edu/>School of Law, the 
<http://gsep.pepperdine.edu/>Graduate School of Education and Psychology, 
the 
<http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/>Graziadio<http://bschool.pepperdine.edu/> 
School of Business and Management, and the 
<http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/>School of Public Policy are
located on the University’s 830-acre campus overlooking the Pacific Ocean 
in Malibu. Courses are taught in Malibu, at six graduate campuses in 
Southern California, and at
international campuses in Germany, England, Italy, and Argentina.  The West 
LA Graduate Campus, which now enjoys connectivity to CalREN, is one of the 
six graduate
campuses and functions as the headquarters for the Graziado School of 
Business and Management.  We look forward to Pepperdine's coming 
achievements with their new
connectivity to CalREN, and stay tuned to next month's CENIC Today for a 
more in-depth announcement!

If you've ever wanted to attend a forum where the highest quality 
scientists and engineers will be presenting their latest research findings 
related to all elements of supercomputing,
<http://sc07.supercomputing.org/>Supercomputing 07 (SC07) is the place to 
be.  SC07 is the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, 
Networking, Storage and Analysis. This year's conference
will be held in Reno, NV at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center (RSCC) from 
November 10-16, 2007.

Because this year's conference is in Reno, CENIC and the 
<http://wwwnevada.edu/>Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) have taken 
the lead on providing WAN connectivity for SC07. However, the
RSCC did not have the fiber facilities necessary to provide the kind of 
high-speed circuits needed for access to Research & Education networks, and 
consequently WAN
connectivity has presented CENIC and the NSHE with some unique challenges. 
Specifically, a fiber build into the RSCC was required to provide SC07 
participants with the
connectivity to <http://www.internet2.edu/>Internet2, 
<http://www.nlr.net/>National LambdaRail, 
<http://www.pacificwave.net/>Pacific Wave, and the many other R&E networks 
required to make the demos, challenges, and technical presentations as
astonishing as befits the premiere international conference for 
high-performance computing.  The wide-area network connectivity for the 
show is expected to be resolved in early
September.

CENIC and the NSHE will continue to put forth the highest effort to make 
sure that SC07 lives up to the Supercomputing reputation.  If you'd like to 
visit Reno, NV and see for
yourself, 
<http://sc07.supercomputing.org/?pg=registration.html>registration is still 
open at significant savings until October 15, 2007.  You can also find the 
entire conference program, exhibit information, and travel and tourism
information about the Reno, NV area at the SC07 website at 
http://sc07.supercomputing.org/.
-- Ed Smith, CENIC


Classrooms Without Boundaries: The Collaboratory at UC Merced
Two of the most important keywords for any technology meant for large-scale 
use are cost-effective and modular; in fact the Industrial Revolution was 
predicated on these
two concepts, which depend intimately on one another as well.  If a device 
must be individually crafted for each user, that device is rarely an 
economical choice or an
easily maintained one.  Not until the automobile began to roll off an 
assembly-line with interchangeable parts did it become obtainable by the 
vast majority of potential
users -- and not until then did it realize its potential to change almost 
all aspects of modern life.

Computers are similar devices -- but so are the social structures that 
computers can empower.  With modular technology, human communications 
itself can also become
more modular, and this process has already begun to occur with relatively 
new workplace practices such as telecommuting which allow for a distributed 
workplace.  When
cost-effective, modular technologies allow for the creation of 
cost-effective and modular organizations, that is when the true potential 
of computers to create human society
anew will be unlocked.

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Pursuing such a revolution in the arena of education is the chief goal of 
the Collaboratory, an open-source modular education paradigm currently 
being created at the newest
University of California campus, the Central Valley's UC Merced.  And the 
Collaboratory is far more than an exploration of technology.

"UC Merced is unique among the UC campuses as an Hispanic-serving 
institution," says Dean of the School of Engineering and Collaboratory 
Director Jeff Wright, pictured
below at left.  "Things are very different here compared to the coasts, and 
for the student population we serve, retention is a key issue."  The link 
provided by the Collaboratory
between students at the local high school and community college and UC 
Merced is seen by Wright as a crucial element in providing the step up 
needed to retain bright
Central Valley students from underrepresented groups who aspire to a UC 
education in science or engineering.  By combining engineering and science 
classrooms across
segment and geographic boundaries, students arrive at UC Merced with 
connections to one another, the faculty, and the existing student 
population already in place.

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However, if the structure proposed by the Wright and his colleagues is to 
live up to its potential to revolutionize pedagogy on a large scale, it 
must also be cost-effective:
inexpensive, easy to create and maintain, and power-thrifty.  The key to 
making this possible is the open-source philosophy to which the 
Collaboratory is devoted.  The
entire structure features a complete reliance on Free and Open Source 
Software (FOSS) as well as commodity hardware.  Even its power costs per 
station are a mere
25% of a standard desktop station.

The outreach made possible by the Collaboratory doesn't stop at the Central 
Valley, however.  Thanks to high-speed networking like that provided to 
California's K-20 research
and education community by CENIC, growing the Collaboratory involves only 
the installation of new stations as opposed to replicating the entire 
structure itself in a distant
place.  If a school has high-speed Internet, the Collaboratory could 
conceivably send a desktop node with directions to 
plug-and-play.  Nationally or even internationally
distributed classrooms are possible, effectively rendering the classroom 
structure itself as modular as the technology.  Students, teachers, 
assistants, and even assignments
can be made geographically independent of one another and reassembled in 
any configuration as class is in progress, on the fly.  This ability opens 
up whole new
pedagogical landscapes, teaching paradigms that may not even be imagined 
just yet but that could be made possible by decoupling classroom structure 
from its physical
limitations.

More information about the Collaboratory as well as the Dean of the School 
of Engineering Jeff Wright can be found at 
<http://www.ucmerced.edu/>UC<http://www.ucmerced.edu/> Merced's website.
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC


3C Media Solutions Unveils New Website
In the May edition of CENIC Today, readers were informed that CCCSAT, the 
educational distribution network for California's Community Colleges, was 
changing its name to
3C Media Solutions, and that a new website would soon be unveiled.

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That new website has gone live at http://www.3cmediasolutions.org/ and 
offers all of the facilities of the previous CCCSAT website as well as 
exciting new features such as
streaming archived media and live broadcasts of network content.  Forms 
requesting full-service production, editing, and technical assistance are 
prominently linked, as well as
programming schedules, support information, and even a form inviting viewer 
reviews.

3C Media Solutions is the educational media distribution network dedicated 
to assisting the California Community Colleges (CCC) with the most 
up-to-date media solutions
available.

Their team delivers media content throughout the CCC system 24/7, through 
television and the Internet.  3C Media Solutions delivers high-quality, 
digital broadcasts through two
channels, 3CTV and 3C Community Network.  3CTV features a number of CCC 
produced programs, including telecourses, series and specials and is 
available in classrooms
throughout the CCC system, as well as on the Internet.  3C Community 
Network is a closed-circuit satellite channel providing proprietary and 
specialty programming for the
CCCs and affiliated entities.

3C Media Solutions is grant-funded through the 
<http://www.cccco.edu/>CCC<http://www.cccco.edu/> Chancellor’s Office.  It 
is based at <http://www.palomar.edu/>Palomar College in San Marcos, CA.
-- Janis Cortese, CENIC


Spotlight on the CCC CETC Ambassador Program
Effective collaboration between organizations, empowered by advanced 
technology, requires education and outreach across organizational 
boundaries so that all of the
key parties in each organization are informed as to the capabilities both 
of the technology itself and of their counterparts.  Coordinating all of 
this can be a challenge, and
it's one that the California Community Colleges' CA Educational Technology 
Collaborative (<http://www.cccetc.org/>CETC) and its 
<http://www.cccetc.org/ambassador/>Ambassador Program has been meeting with 
innovation and
enthusiasm.

The CETC offers an array of technology services, tools and resources, most 
of which are free to administrators, faculty and staff of California's 
Community Colleges.  It
brings together all of the CCC systemwide technology projects and their 
strategic partners into a single group, allowing the individual projects to 
remain autonomous, while
giving the new group a single-project focus.  CETC's vision intends to 
maximize the effectiveness and reach of technology in education. The vision 
includes a commitment
to more effectively manage and share resources, reduce duplication of 
services, and increase funding opportunities.  The CCC technology-related 
projects associated with
the CETC are:
    * <http://www.3cmediasolutions.org/>3C Media Solutions (Satellite Network)
    * <http://www.cccconfer.org/>CCC<http://www.cccconfer.org/> Confer 
(e-Conferencing)
    * <http://www.cccone.org/>@ONE (Faculty/Staff Training)
    * <http://www.governet.net/C4/>CCC<http://www.governet.net/C4/> 
Clearinghouse (Electronic Repository)
    * <http://www.cvc.edu/>CVC ( The California Virtual Campus)
    * <http://www.cccnext.net/>CCC Technology Center (Web Services)
along with partner organizations the 
<http://www.foundationccc.org/>Foundation for California Community Colleges 
and CENIC.  Via its <http://www.cccetc.org/ambassador/>Ambassador Program, 
the CETC reaches out several times each
year to designated technology Ambassadors located at each campus to ensure 
that the campus is well-informed and ready to take advantage of what the 
projects have
to offer.

Each year, the CETC Ambassador Program makes every effort to recruit a 
technology ambassador from each of the 109 California Community Colleges.  The
Ambassadors will be responsible for a number of duties — including 
conducting presentations and implementing surveys — designed to increase 
awareness of the many
systemwide technology resources that the Collaborative offers. In return, 
each Ambassador receives an annual stipend.  All CETC Technology 
Ambassadors for the
2006-2007 recruitment cycle have been chosen. Information about the 
2007-2008 recruitment cycle will be posted to the 
<http://www.cccetc.org/>CCC CETC<http://www.cccetc.org/> website as it 
becomes available.

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Please be sure to visit the <http://www.cccetc.org/>CCC CETC website to 
learn about the various technology projects enhancing the learning 
experience for California's community college students,
and to learn how your campus can take advantage of the cutting-edge 
educational technology offered by the projects and enabled by the 
high-performance networking
made possible by CENIC.
-- Catherine McKenzie, CCC Chancellor's Office


The School Year Starts for CalREN Video Services
The dogs days of August for CENIC network Associates are time to ramp up 
for the start of the new school year, and the same is true for CENIC as 
well -- particularly for
<http://cvs.cenic.org/>CalREN Video Services, which never fails to see a 
precipitous rise in the number of scheduled videoconferences as Labor Day 
approaches.  CalREN Video Services has a
number of projects in mind for the coming year to make CVS even more 
flexible and easy to manage for site Videoconference Administrators and 
Cassandra Patrizio,
CENIC's Videoconference Coordinator, is pondering another CVS Roadshow, 
last mentioned in the 
<http://www.cenic.org/publications/cenictoday/ctv10_3.html>May 9 issue of 
CENIC Today.

Currently, CENIC has added a Screen View option to its 
<http://pcs.cenic.org/>CVS<http://pcs.cenic.org/> Scheduling Desk software, 
permitting users to choose the layout of their videoconference themselves 
without
needing to request a special view separately.  Previously, the default view 
assigned to all videoconferences was single-view, voice-controlled, meaning 
that all participants
saw only the site that was speaking at a given time.

Now, with the option to choose from one of eleven different screen layouts, 
Videoconference Administrators enjoy yet more individual control over the 
look and feel of their
videoconferences, choosing from various layouts depending on the number of 
participants and how they may be arranged at their respective 
sites.  <http://cvs.cenic.org/guide/view.html>Instructions on how to
configure the layout of your videoconference can be found on the CVS website.

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Further possibilities currently being investigated include high-definition 
videoconferencing, recording and archiving, and the sharing of people + 
content, where a conference
participant can share their desktop or a saved presentation during a given 
videoconference.

Be sure to check out future issues of CENIC Today for updates regarding 
<http://cvs.cenic.org/>CalREN Video Services and to ensure that you don't 
miss future CVS events or announcements!
-- Cassandra Patrizio, CENIC

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National Networking News:

SciVee, A Collaboration Between SDSC and NSF, To Bring Science To YouTube 
Generation
Science is coming to the YouTube generation with the advent of “SciVees” -- 
video and podcasts that supplement traditional peer-reviewed articles.

The new internet source, fittingly called <http://www.scivee.tv/>SciVee, is 
launching September 1 as a collaboration between  the National Science 
Foundation and the <http://www.sdsc.edu/>San Diego Supercomputer Center
(SDSC) at <http://www.ucsd.edu/>UC San Diego.  Phillip E. Bourne, Professor 
in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UCSD; and 
Leo M. Chalupa, Distinguished Professor
of Ophthalmology and Neurobiology at <http://www.ucdavis.edu/>UC Davis, are 
directing the effort, funded through an <http://www.nsf.gov/>NSF Small 
Grant for Exploratory Research.

According to Bourne, the goal of the initiative is to encourage the further 
use of open access scientific publishing, by adding multimedia content to 
standard print formats and online
formats.

“We expect to disseminate science to the widest possible audience, thereby 
bringing the <http://www.youtube.com/>YouTube generation – who are the next 
generation of leading scientists – the best
science using a medium they have adopted and use on a daily basis,” he said.
Source: <http://www.sdsc.edu/News%20Items/PR082907_scivee.html>SDSC News Center


AARNet Lightpath OPuts Scientists on the Right Path to Real-Time Data Access
<http://www.aarnet.edu.au/>AARNet broke new ground at the 
<http://apan2007xian.cstnet.cn/>APAN24 (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) 
meeting in Xi'an, China on August 30 by setting up and successfully linking 
astronomers across the
world via "lightpath". The demonstration involving collaborators of the 
EXPReS project (Express Production Real-time e-VLBI Service) conducted the 
first successful e-VLBI
observations to jointly use telescopes in China and Australia, China and 
Europe.

The demonstration covered an impressive 41,000kms in total with consistent 
data transfer rates of 250 Mbps. The data was transferred from Mopra to 
Sydney over <http://www.aarnet.edu.au/>AARNet
lightpath, then on to AARNet's lightpath along 
<http://www.southerncrosscables.com/>Southern Cross Cable Network (SCCN) 
SXTransport South to Los Angeles, then by CENIC to Seattle, 
<http://www.canarie.ca/>CaNet to Chicago and then
via <http://www.surfnet.nl/info/home.jsp>SurfNet to Amsterdam and then on 
to <http://www.jive.nl/>JiVE. The other route involved Shanghai via 
<http://www.cstnet.net.cn/>CSTNet and the across 
<http://www.dante.net/server/show/nav.1678>ORIENT to Copenhagen, 
<http://www.geant.net/>GEANT to Netherlands and SURFNet
then on to Jive.
Source: <http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;897835159>ARNnet


Clemson University Admitted to High-Speed Network Fraternity
Clemson University has established a direct fiber link between Clemson, 
Greenville, Atlanta, and Charlotte, giving researchers direct access to the 
National LambdaRail,
Internet2, and other national and international research networks, 
according to a report in the HPCWire newsletter.

The network, known as C-Light, was funded through private money and donated 
fiber, according to the university. The opening of the C-Light network will 
enable Clemson
researchers to collaborate nationally and qualifies them for major federal 
research grants.

"Clemson's capacity for data transmission has increased from the equivalent 
of a footpath in the forest to a 16-lane superhighway," said Clemson Chief 
Information Officer Jim
Bottum, according to HPCWire.
Source: <http://www.campustechnology.com/articles/49648/>Campus Technology


WIDE and OSTN Unite to Exchange IPTV Content over the Internet
On August 20, the Widely Integrated Distributed Environment 
(<http://www.wide.ad.jp/>WIDE) Project announced an IPTV partnership with 
the <http://www.ostn.tv/>Open Student Television Network (OSTN). WIDE and
OSTN will exchange educational, foreign language, news, and entertainment 
IPTV content over WIDE’s backbone data network for research and education 
to its Japanese
universities, including Keio University and the University of Tokyo, 
reaching more than 800 WIDE members.

The union will serve as an opportunity for the two organizations to 
collaborate on conducting IPTV research and development in the areas of 
Multicast, DVTS, HD, and IPv6.
The partnership will reinforce WIDE’s aim of global connectivity through 
technologies of the next generation Internet while offering its network 
users the opportunity to contribute
to programming on OSTN.

“The WIDE-OSTN partnership will promote international digital contents 
dissemination in Japan and the USA,” according to Dr. Hitoshi Asaeda of 
Keio University. “It is highly
meaningful for IP multicast deployment in the international networks; in 
this partnership, IP multicast communication infrastructure will be 
improved and its operational
experiences will be increased.”
Source: 
<http://www.ostn.tv/website/pressreleases/WideAndOSTNunitetoexchangeiptv.html>OSTN.tv


Rocketing Into HIPerSpace: New Visualization System at UC San Diego
Engineers at <http://www.ucsd.edu/>UC<http://www.ucsd.edu/> San Diego have 
constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a 
screen resolution up to 220 million pixels.

The system located at the UCSD division of the 
<http://www.calit2.net/>California Institute for Telecommunications and 
Information Technology (Calit2) is also linked via optical fiber to 
Calit2’s building
at <http://www.uci.edu/>UC <http://www.uci.edu/>Irvine, which boasts the 
previous record holder. The combination – known as the Highly Interactive 
Parallelized Display Space (HIPerSpace) – can deliver real-time
rendered graphics simultaneously across 420 million pixels to audiences in 
Irvine and San Diego.

“We don’t intend to stop there,” said Falko Kuester, Calit2 professor for 
visualization and virtual reality and associate professor of structural 
engineering in UCSD’s Jacobs
School of Engineering. “HIPerSpace provides a unique environment for visual 
analytics and cyberinfrastructure research and we are now seeking funding 
to double the size
of the system at UC San Diego alone to reach half a billion pixels with a 
one gigapixel distributed display in sight.”
Source: 
<http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-07HIPerSpaceDR-.asp>UCSD News 
Center


Preparing Schools for the Next Emergency: Katrina HELP team urges educators 
to get disaster plans ready now
As America marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in 
Louisiana on Aug. 29, school districts and education leaders were 
encouraged to begin a new
school year with renewed efforts to develop and strengthen disaster 
preparedness.

Organized by the <http://www.educationhelpteam.org/>Hurricane Education 
Leadership Program (HELP) Team, coordinated by Terry Smithson and Melinda 
Dinin of <http://www.intel.com/>Intel, ed-tech experts and
emergency-preparedness school staff members attended a webinar Aug. 23 that 
highlighted the need for schools to have solid emergency plans in place. 
The web-based
gathering also considered steps that educational institutions should take 
to prepare for potential disasters.
Source: 
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7321>eSchool<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7321> 
News


Report: Tech support costs on the rise
As school technology infrastructures have become larger and more complex, 
the percentage of their technology budgets that schools spend on tech 
support has doubled in the
last four years, according to a new report.

School leaders reported that items such as professional development and 
instructional applications are among the first tech-related expenses they 
cut when budgets are tight.
But the report, from ed-tech consulting firm The Hayes Connection, says 
this is a short-sighted approach that harms both teachers and students. 
Instead, the report argues,
schools would be better served finding ways to stabilize their rising 
tech-support costs--and it describes strategies that savvy school leaders 
have used to accomplish this.

“When asked about tradeoffs and choices, some technology directors cited 
the basics--cutting out travel to technology conferences, as well as 
reducing or delaying purchases of
instructional software for students,” the report says.

“Interestingly, few technology directors cited reducing tech-support costs 
as a way to cut budgets in a more significant way--this, despite the fact 
that tech support is the
fastest-growing cost area for school technology budgets.”
Source: 
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7325>eSchool<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7325> 
News


Grids Can Be Green
Grids have been designed to provide collaborating researchers with 
resources from many different physically disparate organizations. This has 
the advantage of ensuring that
high-cost resources—in terms of initial purchase price and running 
costs—are operated as near to maximum capacity as possible.

This means that, through correct management of related resources, grids 
have the potential to effectively lower an organization’s overall carbon 
footprint.

However, we should also recognize the natural resources consumed to build 
these computing systems in the first place, many of which are toxic.

After what is a very short lifetime, these systems are dismantled and 
“recycled” for their parts, often in developing countries, causing local 
health and environmental problems.
Source: <http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1000618>International Science Grid This Week

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About CENIC:
California’s education and research communities leverage their networking 
resources under CENIC, the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in 
California, in order to obtain
cost-effective, high-bandwidth networking to support their missions and 
answer the needs of their faculty, staff, and students.  CENIC designs, 
implements, and operates CalREN,
the California Research and Education Network, a high-bandwidth, 
high-capacity Internet network specially designed to meet the unique 
requirements of these communities, and
to which the vast majority of the state’s K-20 educational institutions are 
connected.  In order to facilitate collaboration in education and research, 
CENIC also provides connectivity
to non-California institutions and industry research organizations with 
which CENIC’s Associate researchers and educators are engaged.

CENIC is governed by its member institutions.  Representatives from these 
institutions also donate expertise through their participation in various 
committees designed to ensure
that CENIC is managed effectively and efficiently, and to support the 
continued evolution of the network as technology advances.

For more information, visit www.cenic.org.

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