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

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Small/ Medium Enterprise

Compute Node uSherbrooke

Compute Node

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Macro Wireless

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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.”

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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

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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

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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

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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