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Mission Statement
“To spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the provision of cyberinfrastructure”
“To spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure”
Goal
• Sustainable operations – Grant renewals
– Member support • “We can run that network ourselves”
Revenue Generation
Non-revenue
• Network
• Routers
• Cash
• Staff
• Contractors
Revenue
• Memberships
• Govt.
Best Practices
• Orion – Education backup
• BCNet – Peering
• Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers – On-demand HPC
BACKUP Best Practices - Orion
Backup
• Partnered with commercial service
• 24/7 support
• Located in province
• Scalable
• Secure
• Affordable
PEERING & GROUP BUYING Best Practices - BCNet
Peering and Buying
• Network access cost reduction – Peering
• Service improvement • Network efficiency
– Academic cost reduction
– Commercial possibilities
The Internet
U of A
Large ISP
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Google Facebook
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The Internet
Cybera
U of A U of C etc,…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering
“Peering is a voluntary interconnection of administratively separate Internet networks for the purpose of exchanging traffic between the customers of each network “
Also known as settlement-free peering
What is Peering?
04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 15
The Internet + Internet Exchanges
Cybera
U of A U of C etc,…
Large ISP Large
ISP
Large ISP
Google Facebook
IX Switch
Microsoft
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• Google is the single largest content provider
• Many Google services, incl Youtube.com
• 1Gb/s private connection between BCNET and Google
• IPv6 and IPv4
Private peering Google
04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 17
COMMERCIAL HPC Best Practices - Montana
Alberta Co.
Commercial Cloud
Cybera Pilot Cloud
College
Education Utility Cloud
Cybera Pilot Cloud
$ / User
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Population Density (Population / Sq Km)
Alberta – Population Distribution
Almost four in five people around the world believe that access to the internet is a fundamental right, a poll for the BBC World Service suggests.
“…study ranks Canada 19th worldwide in overall Internet access.” Harvard University Berkman Center Feb 2010
“If we do not act with haste, the innova=ons that could employ our future work force could well pass us by” Globe and Mail editorial Feb 2010
“Governments must regard the internet as basic infrastructure -‐ just like roads, waste and water”
-‐ Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-‐general of the InternaLonal TelecommunicaLon Union
Cost to Connect ($/month)
Rural Urban Speed (Mbps) Satellite Wireless Cable
1.0 70 1.5 100 49 3.0 65 5.0 89 10 47 26 70 50 100
Federal Initiatives
• Canada’s Economic Action Plan – $225M
• Broadband Canada – Connecting Rural Canadians • $76.9M for first 52 projects
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Federal Initiatives
Company Region Homes
Corridor Communications Inc.
Taber, Pincher Creek, Ranchland and Counties of Cypress, Forty Mile, Warner, Lethbridge and Cardston 5,577
CCI Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and Yellowhead 2,465
CCI Counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, and Ponoka 1,867 CCI Athabasca Region, Peace River Region 11,335
CCI Wood Buffalo, Bonnyville and counties of Lakeland, St. Paul, and Smoky Lake 1,488
PCC Communications Inc.
Forty Mile, Warner, Cypress, and extended regions of Willow Creek 1,516
PCC Regions of Crowfoot, Vegreville, and Wainwright 8,134 PCC Foothills, Rocky View, and Mountain View 2,475
PCC Jasper, Kananakis, Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and Yellowhead 436
PCC North Central Region / Stony Plain District 1,817
PCC Peace Region / Peace River & Grande Prairie Districts 1,905 Total 39,015
Lab
$ / User
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4,000,000
Community
Olds, Alberta • 7,200 residents • 3,200 Homes & Businesses • College
“The Olds Ins=tute for Community and Regional Development Technology CommiIee has a vision to make Olds the small and medium enterprise capital of Alberta built on superior cyberinfrastructure.
The OICRD is currently building a private fiber network that will connect every home and business in the community.”
-‐ Norman McInnis, Chief AdministraLve Officer for Olds
Next Generation Needs
• Exascale computing
Next Generation Needs
• DIYBio
Homes Homes
Homes Homes
Businesses Businesses
Businesses
Distribution Point
Content Co.
SuperNet
Satellite Farm
Commercial Cloud
Cybera Pilot Cloud
SuperNet
Projects
• Water & Environment Hub – New hire – Alex Joseph
– Excellent working relationship with WaterSmart
– Bow River basin first module
Current Projects
• Sensor Networks
• Earth Observation
• Space Weather
• Radio Astronomy
• Westgrid
• GreenStar Network
• MoboVivo
• Water Hub
• ESRI / CSPG
• Medical Research
• Data Gardens
Cloud Services for Water Management
Explore use of cloud services to store, manipulate and expose data related to water management
Link and correlate a wide variety of data from a large number of sources
Cloud-based analysis and visualization tools
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