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What’s Happening to ICT in Canada? ICT: Information and Communications Technology
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CANARIE’s DAIR Program DAIR – the Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research Program is:
- an advanced, shared R & D environment for digital innovators and entrepreneurs to design, prototype, validate, and demonstrate new applications, products and services - a dedicated portion of the CANARIE high-speed, high-capacity fibre optic network, plus macro cellular, WiFi and compute and storage resources – offered at no charge during pilot phase: May 2011 – March 2012
- an opportunity to address a competitive disadvantage for small and medium-sized companies that would otherwise have to spend scarce resources on this kind of R & D infrastructure
Wi-Fi, Wire line Access
University Provincial networks
Small/ Medium
Enterprise
Small/ Medium Enterprise
Compute Node uSherbrooke
Compute Node
uAlberta
Macro Wireless
Wi-Fi, Wire line Access
University
Internet
Who Will Benefit from DAIR?
§ Small and Medium Enterprises § During pilot and full-roll out
§ Multinational Enterprises § During full roll-out
§ ICT Research Community § During full roll-out
Results to Date
• Users from across Canada, with participation from 8 provinces. Users are: v Not on the cloud:
• Using DAIR to augment their own physical compute nodes but using resources not too differently than today.
• Will eventually experiment with how they can leverage cloud computing as they become familiar.
v Looking to the cloud: • Experiments are primarily with scaling for customer demand.
v Already using the cloud: • Either expanding their tests OR • Transferring existing cloud compute resources on to DAIR.
DAIR - Uses
• The companies participating come from a variety of IT (and non-traditional IT) sectors including:
Gaming Social Media Security Insurance Mobile Development Platforms And more...
Video Simulations Mass Messaging Building Construction Cloud Computing Geo-navigation
Feedback
• Extremely positive feedback from users: “DAIR works very well for us. It is faster than our
machines, allows us to run more experiments, it is reliable and we haven't had any issues with it.”
“Great system.”
“We are starting to do some user testing using your
cloud...things continue to go well.”
Economic Basis for CANARIE C
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Private sector will not step in, as there is no profitable business case given the significantly different characteristics of R&E networks Private sector carriers are supportive of CANARIE as a public good to advance research CANARIE purchases leading edge technology from the private sector, but does not compete with industry
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By collecting all demand across the Canada’s research environment we create economies of scale and scope to leverage and deliver a cost-efficient digital infrastructure resource
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Equality of network across Canada enables all regions to access research services everywhere and complements successful federal-provincial collaboration
Shared Service Provider What can CAN
ARIE do to lower costs on
campu
s?
University IT support structures are like
snowflakes
Varying degrees of centralizaDon/decentralizaDon
Different mandates (operaDons, customer service, innovaDon, etc.)
Different funding models (naDonal, provincial, local)
Variable emphasis (admin, teaching, research)
The key technology they all share is the network
SHARED NETWORK SERVICE
Research growth Four driv
ers o
f core ne
twork de
mand
HumaniDes and social sciences
“Discovering” compuDng
Graphics, video, etc.
Medical and health sciences
3D imaging
Real Dme diagnosDcs
TradiDonal sciences and engineering
ExponenDal data volume growth
Data management
Backup, restore
Archive, protect GROWING DEMAND
Research computing growth Broade
ned de
mand for research
compu
Dng
Why run HPC compuDng on campus?
RaDonalize HPC from 27 to less data centres
If 80% of research compuDng is non-‐HPC
The cloud is not in Canada
ProtecDon of Privacy, naDonal compeDDveness
issues
Build Canadian cloud services
In both environments, the network makes it happen
Grow Canadian Access Federation NaD
onal interest in CAF
Core funcDons
EduRoam
Shibboleth
Leverage
Expand to full community, not simply
UniversiDes
Passive EduRoam
Shibbolized NEP projects
FEDERATED ACCESS
Canada, the world’s data centre Ho
w do we a`
ract com
mercializa
Don to
Canada?
What is unique about Canada?
Vast renewable hydro-‐electric power
Cooling is cheaper the farther north you go
GreenStar network innovaDons via follow the
wind, follow the sun
CANARIE backbone
Manufacturing is the new agriculture.
DATA CENTRE OPPORTUNITIES
DAIR to compare … What h
ave we do
ne in th
e clou
d so
far?
Working together on DAIR
Cybera
uAlberta
uSherbrooke
CANARIE
ExperienDal learning from DAIR pilot 23 SMEs and growing
CLOUD EXPERIENCE
A cloudy future …
VIABLE BUSINESS
MODEL SHARED
NETWORK SERVICE
GROWING DEMAND
FEDERATED ACCESS
DATA CENTRE OPPORTUNITIES
CLOUD EXPERIENCE