Cyberinfrastructure (CI) 2.0

CI 2.0Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond OUTLINE

• Globalization

• Cyberinfrastructure in Alberta

• Cybera Inc.

• Pilot Projects

• Examples of Cyberinfrastructure

• CI Summit

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

• Struggling gold company went to the masses and open-sourced a site

• Mass collaboration found more gold that company could in previous proprietary attempts

• Gave away data and got back a $ 9 billion companyWikinomics


Artificial Artificial Intelligence

Finding Steve Fosset

What is Going on Here?

Web 2.0

Enterprise 2.0

Work 2.0

Office 2.0

Management 2.0

Cyberinfrastructure 2.0

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Engagement

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Overnight...

Almost overnight business became:

– Turbo-charged

– Technology-enabled

– Flatter

– Value-add focused

– Networked

– Virtual

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Business...

Business...

• Leverages change

• Leverages technology

• Develops based on core competencies and functions

• Partners to add value to customer experience


Business Requires Infrastructure

Business...


Infrastructure...

is changing

Business...

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Supply Chain

“Location” is often becoming less and less relevant in the supply chain

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Value Chain

Business relies on infrastructure to move rawmaterials to higher value states.

e.g. logistics, arts, equities, manufacturing

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Alberta CI Investments

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

The 25% of the population in Chinawith the highest IQ’s...


...is greater than the total population of North America


There are over 200 million registered users of MySpace

GLOBALIZATION


If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world.

Bigger than Brazil

GLOBALIZATION


80 million

2006 110 million

1 million

2 months

GLOBALIZATION



There are about 540,000 words in the

English language...

GLOBALIZATION






Third generation fiber optics can now...

...carry 10 trillion bits per second

over a single strand of fiber

GLOBALIZATION



CI 1.0

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE


Integration, convergence, sharing, publishing, personalization, communication, collaboration, virtualization

CI 2.0

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Business Case...

Increased ROI

Decreased time to market

Disruption

Opportunity

Reach customers in new ways.

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI Examples

Impacts, issues, problems, solutions given various examples and stated business problems


• Film and tape video editing was physical until 80’s

• Computers first controlled VCR’s starting in 80’s

• Complex programs with huge local storage requirements in the 90’s

• Simple programs and huge local storage in 1998

• YouTube - video recorded, edited, stored, delivered and processed directly from a lens on a cell phone or computer

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Google Docs

Software program delivered as a webservice

Word, Excel, PPT

Storage and processing in the cloud

Compute and licencing costs go down

Collaboration improved

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Amazon

• Simple Storage Service

• Elastic Compute Cloud

• What is the performance for specific applications? Will I save money?

• Will it work for my business?

• Are there other options?

• Is it secure?


• 200 million registered users

• 104 million items for sale

• 1.2 billion page views/day

• Thousands of servers

• Built own CI

• Not everybody has eBay like requirements, but even a small infrastructure may be waste of resources

EBAY

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Happy Feet

Lord of the Rings surplus processors created New Zealand Super Computer Centre (NZSC)

NZSC opened Texas office with oil and gas company Stillwater

Indian seismic processing company partnership that will rent out surplus to ‘Bollywood’ movie companies

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS


SensorsStatsScoring


Streaming


More Stats


Website


4 Grand Slams

ReuseMashupScale up-Scale downCut servers from 60 to 9

Players get...

...to remember their unforced errors and double-faults


• Tradition in simulation, modelling, super computing and even distributed computing.

• Technology assisted Exxon to drill more than double original estimates from North Sea.

• Virtual drilling using central control centres, data visualization, and sensors

• mPower, Eclipse, Star Reservoir Simulation Tools

CI IN OIL & GAS

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI IN OIL & GAS

Main Applications

• Seismic Processing

• Reservoir Modeling

• Visualization

• Risk Management for Utilities

• Energy Trading

• IT Optimization

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI IN OIL & GAS

Business Drivers

• Increasing efficiency and addressing skills shortages

• Handling more complex simulations, models and analysis

• Addressing the issues of ‘more difficult’ exploration (e.g. Tar Sands terrain modeling)

• Maximizing reserves and longevity sources

• Improving collaboration

• Cycles in exploration


Weather Channel is using clusters and remote instrumentation to deliver services

– 1.9 million data sources

– billions of calculations required to predict specific weather conditions

WEATHER CHANNEL


CYBERAAlberta Cyberinfrastructure for Innovation

Cybera will help build cyberinfrastructure and promote innovation in Alberta


CI ALLOWS...

Team rather than individual

Iterative rather than finished

Network based rather than locational

Managed complexity rather than imposed simplicity

Security and control; Access rather than ownership

Operating costs rather than capital costs

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERA SERVICES

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond LONG TERM VISION


CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERA MEMBERS

• Two industry members on Board

• Investors in CI and Cybera

• Help to guide vision and direction

• Improved opportunities for collaboration

• Increased human resource and technical capacity

• Increased access to users, decision-makers, and CI resources

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS

GeoChronos - Dr. Arturo SanchezResearch: Impacts of land use/cover change on biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation

Cyberinfrastructure: Automate manual tasks in retrieving, processing and graphing remote sensing data

Increased Productivity: Graphs created in 1-2 weeks from 2-4 months

Deferred Operating: Additional staff not needed to create graphs

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS

Research: Monitoring carbon exchange to model climate change and study resource management.

Cyberinfrastructure: Improve workflow and automate computation.

Deferred Operating: saving $50,000 a year by removing the need for a programmer.

Deferred Capital: Increase machine usage.

EcoSys Experiment Engine - Dr. Robert Grant

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Action Items

Need cyberinfrastructure?1. Engage in a pilot project2. Become a Cybera member3. Join us at the CI Summit

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Pilot Projects

• Impact industry in Alberta government priority areas of ICT, Life Sciences, Energy and Nanotechnology

• Looking for return on technology investment improvements

• Looking for new ways to reach customers

• Extend benefits to others

• Advancing state-of-art

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Pilot Projects

How can Cybera help your business?

1. Cybera can supply or facilitate access to a "test-bed" for CI developments.

2. Cybera can connect you with CI technical experts

3. Cybera can arrange access to CI resources, such as HPC, high-speed networks, middle-ware development

4. Cybera can provide financial support for CI development

CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT:

Innovation at Work

october 11 - 12, 2007 banff, ab

presented by:

Discover how international colleagues in research and industry are using

new technologies to tackle science and business challenges, increase

return-on-technology investments, and change the way they do business.

Join Cybera for a showcase of ‘Innovation at Work’.

PANEL SESSIONS:

• CI: Helping Push Research Boundaries

• Solving Business Challenges with CI

• CI At Work In Alberta

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel405 Spray Avenue -- Banff, ABT: 1-800-257-7544 E: [email protected]

*There are a block of rooms set aside at

the hotel for overnight guests. To take

advantage of this conference rate, please

state you are with the Cybera group.

Geoffrey Fox Vice-President E-Science, Open Grid

Forum

Nancy Wilkins-Diehr

TeraGrid, Area Director for Science

Gateways

Dominique Thomas Software Development Manager,

CGGVeritas

Victor Spigelman SOA Business Development

Executive, IBMVENUE:

To register, or for more information on the schedule, invited speakers, and Summit activities, please visit:

www.cybera.ca

TO REGISTER:

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Contact

Trevor Doerksen

Cybera Inc. 403-668-7039

[email protected]

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