KARENNZ gets a NREN

Internet 2October 2007

New Zealand?

• Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network

• Went live December 2006

• 10 Gbps backbone

• NZ$40M government funding

• NZ$5M capability build fund

• All 8 NZ Universities, all 9 Crown Research Institutes, and National Library

• ~622Mb/s link to US (and onto Europe)

• ~133Mb/s link to Australia

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KAREN Membership

http://www.karen.net.nz

The International Picture

Building Capability• An advisory panel

• A Roadmap

• What we need to do/develop

• Four papers, lots of pages

• NZ Government funding of NZ$5M

• Travel, events, projects

• Targeted projects - identity management

• TEC funding of NZ$2.5M

• BeSTGRID

1st KAREN Workshop

• International leaders raising awareness

•National exemplars

• 160 attendees

• International connections

• Thanks to NSF!

BeSTGRID

•Tertiary Education Commission funded

•$NZ2.5M development grant

•September 2006 - March 2008

•Auckland, Canterbury and Massey Universities

•www.bestgrid.org

BeSTGRID ScopeFederated Top Layer: Disciplines run their own research business on top of the core infrastructure (incl sensors,visualisation, webservices, portals)

Federated Top Layer: Disciplines run their own research business on top of the core infrastructure (incl sensors,visualisation, webservices, portals)

Middleware ‘glue’: GRIDS - Communication GRID, Data GRID, Computational GRIDMiddleware ‘glue’: GRIDS - Communication GRID, Data GRID, Computational GRID

Centre(s) providing core eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)Centre(s) providing core eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)

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BeSTGRID Strategies

•Application focused

•Demonstrate - lead by example

•Don’t over-engineer the IT

•Avoid “not invented here” syndrome

•Technology sharing with

•Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing

•PRAGMA, Oxford, UCSD, Caltech

BeSTGRID Grids•Collaboration

•“low hanging fruit”

•AccessGRID, EVO, Sakai - VRE

•Computation and Data

•“not so low hanging”

•Transparent access to resources that best meet researchers needs

•APAC alignment

NZ HPC•NZ Supercomputing Centre

(Weta “surplus”)

•Canterbury IBM Blue Gene

•NIWA Cray XT4

•Various clusters

•Canterbury IBM P575

•Several “BOINC” grids

•Ministry of Research Science & Technology has eScience advisor

•Universities establishing eResearch infrastructure - champions, etc.

•Building relationships with Australia

•Certificate authority

•Trust federation

Developing Structures

Related Initiatives

•The Loop

•Nelson - Marlborough

•Wellington Loop

•North Shore Education and Access Loop (NEAL)

•Generally 1Gb linking secondary schools

APAN 2008

Queenstown, NZ4-8 August 2008