Mid Atlantic Crossroads

Internet2 Spring 2012 Member Meeting
2012-04-22 - 2012-04-25 | Crystal Gateway Marriott, 1700 Jefferson Davis Highway, Arlington, Virginia, 22202
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GENI Engineering Conference (GEC13)
2012-03-13 - 2012-03-15 | Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, 2025 Avenue of the Stars, Los Angeles, California, 90067
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Super Computing Conference (SC11)
2011-11-12 - 2011-11-18 | Washington State Convention Center, 800 Convention Place, Seattle, Washington, 98101
The Super Computing Conference (SC11) will continue a long and successful tradition of engaging the international community in high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. SC11 will place an emphasis on bringing together communities to facilitate information exchange, discussions and new collaborations for research and education related to innovating high performance computing applications and advancing scientific discovery and scholarship.

2011 Fall All Hands Meeting
2011-11-09 08:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Greenbelt Marriott, 6400 Ivy Lane, Greenbelt, Maryland, 20770
MAX hosted its bi-annual All Hands Meeting at the Greenbelt Marriott on November 9th. All Hands meetings allow MAX the opportunity to engage with our members in individual conversations about the services we offer, how well we are doing, and possible future directions for us. This meeting provided a timely opportunity to collectively reflect on the themes we are hearing and gain consensus and support. MAX’s interim executive director, Abdella Battou, discussed MAX’s current business model of providing connectivity, its research activities, and the target goals of expanding services and partnerships as well as enhancing our research infrastructure. Plans to finish two new pops in Baltimore and Shady Grove were also discussed. Two guest presenters were also part of the program. Paul Conoval, Sector Chief Technologist and Director of Technology Investments at Northrop Grumman Information Systems discussed the high performance optical network research and applications at Northrop Grumman Information Systems. George Laskaris, chief executive officer of NJEdge.net, gave a presentation on NJVid, a statewide video portal and repository that provides a common online platform for presentation, storage and archiving of digital works.

12th GENI Engineering Conference
2011-11-02 - 2011-11-04 | Marriott Kansas City Downtown, 200 West 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri, 64105
The 12th GENI Engineering Conference (GEC12), hosted by the University of Missouri, Kansas City, will take place November 2-4, 2011, in Kansas City, Missouri. The GEC is the GENI Project Office’s (GPO) regular open working meeting where researchers, developers, industrial & international partners, and the GPO meet to advance infrastructure planning and prototyping for the GENI project. Furthermore, the GEC focuses on how to design and build a suite of infrastructure that can best inspire and support creative research. In Spiral 4, the focus of the GEC will emphasize expanding and strengthening the Meso-scale infrastructure and supporting experimental use of GENI. Conference registration is open to all.

2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
2011-10-18 - 2011-10-21 | Pennsylvania Convention Center, 1101 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107
The best thinkers in higher education IT will be at the 2011 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
At EDUCAUSE 2011 attendees will:
• engage with peers who share similar interests and challenges
• sort the program by topical themes, speakers, and relevant interest areas to find exactly what you need
• engage in affinity group sessions, special topic discussion sessions, and lightning rounds
• be inspired by forward-thinking speakers who challenge you to look to the future.
Whether your focus is on administration, teaching and learning, information technology infrastructure, information systems, cybersecurity, policy, library systems or information technology leadership, there’s something at the annual conference for you.

ARIN XXVIII
2011-10-12 - 2011-10-14 | Loews Philadelphia, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia,, 19107
The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) Public Policy Meetings are an integral part of the Internet number resource policy development process, bringing together industry professionals, government representatives, and Internet community leaders in an open and productive forum.

NANOG 53
2011-10-09 - 2011-10-12 | Loews Philadelphia, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia,, 19107
The North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) Meetings offer a great opportunity to freshen up your skills, learn advanced networking techniques and discover new network applications. NANOG 53 will include tutorials, presentations, panel discussions and leading-edge networking examples. There will also be ample opportunities for meeting with your peers.

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 | 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.
