Mid Atlantic Crossroads

Internet2 Fall Member Meeting
2011-10-02 - 2011-10-06 | Raleigh Convention Center, 500 South Salisbury Street, Raleigh,, 27601
The Internet2 community will gather in Raleigh, North Carolina for the Fall 2011 Internet2 Member Meeting. The meeting will be hosted by MCNC, operators of the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN), in coordination with their annual NCREN Community Day.
The theme for the meeting is “Creating the Future: Collaborations and Connections.” Internet2 and its members are, indeed, creating the future by building collaborations and making connections with the Research and Education community around the world. The focus of the Fall meeting program will build on the “Path Forward, Envisioning Opportunities” theme of the Spring 2011 Member Meeting, where the seven strategic priorities that are the foundation of Internet2’s future direction were shared and discussed.

2011 IPv6 Workshop
2011-08-15 - 2011-08-18 | MAX Offices, 8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 102, College Park, MD, 20740
Over the course of this two-day workshop, participants designed and set up a functioning IPv6 network. This network was connected to the Internet2 IPv6 network, and thus to the rest of the global IPv6 network. Both external and internal routing was configured. Using IPv6 transition tools, participants also gatewayed between the workshop IPv6 network and the global IPv4 internet. It is expected that, after having experienced one workshop as a student, a participant is able to engineer IPv6 networks within his/her campus or gigaPoP, explain IPv6 engineering concepts to peers, and, in some cases, help teach or facilitate future IPv6 workshops. The workshop was taught by Bill Cerveny, former internet engineer for Internet2, and was offered over two separate two-day sessions.

2011 High Performance Computing Boot Camp
2011-08-08 - 2011-08-12 | University of Maryland, Computer & Space Sciences Building, Room 1410, College Park, MD, 20742
For the second consecutive year, MAX and the University of Maryland’s Office of Information Technology partnered with each other to offer this boot camp. Targeted at graduate students, research staff, and faculty members with computational science and engineering problems that demand high performance, the week-long course introduced participants to the basics of high performance parallel computing. The course was taught by Dr. Alan Sussman, associate professor of computer science at the University of Maryland. Upon successful completion of the course, participants understood the basics of parallel computing and knew how to optimize sequential applications and write basic MPI and OpenMP applications. Attendees used queuing systems such as PBS and existing high-end resources at the University of Maryland during the course.

2011 Summer Teen Tech Camp
2011-07-11 09:00 - 2011-07-15 15:00 (America/New_York) | MAX Offices, 8400 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 102, College Park, MD, 20740
MAX hosted its first annual week-long technology camp geared towards teaching local high school students the fundamentals of various areas of information technology. The camp was designed to go beyond the standard curriculum of programming that students are accustomed to and introduce them to other topics that are not generally covered in depth at the high school level. Fourteen students from three local high schools learned the basics of networking, the OSI model, building a web server using LAMP software, using Apache Tomcat to run Java code, routing protocols, cloud computing, and network security. MAX plans to offer this free camp every summer.
