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A Brief Overview

A Brief Overview. Andrew K. Bjerring President and CEO. New Mandate (2007-2012). Five-year funding of $120 million: $24 M for 2007-08; additional $96 M to be “drawn down” annually Two Objectives: Maintain, extend and upgrade Canada’s R&E Network

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A Brief Overview

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  1. A Brief Overview Andrew K. Bjerring President and CEO

  2. New Mandate(2007-2012) Five-year funding of $120 million: $24 M for 2007-08; additional $96 M to be “drawn down” annually Two Objectives: Maintain, extend and upgrade Canada’s R&E Network Develop innovative technology (shared research tools and next-generation architectures) First year achievements: Transition to new backbone completed Selection of initial technology innovation projects nearing completion Selection of initial infrastructure extension projects nearing completion

  3. CANARIE’s Network National Communications Infrastructure for R&E: Includes traditional layer 3 network Most of capacity allocated as dedicated, end-to-end lightpaths NRC and other federal labs operate their own networks using lightpaths UCLP was a major innovation during previous mandate short for “User Controlled LightPaths” Enables users to manage their own wide area networks Built around web services and Service-Oriented-Architectures (SOA)

  4. CANARIE’s Network-Enabled Platforms Program “Platform” is a new metaphor to capture the same underlying vision and infrastructure as “grids” and “cyberinfrastructure” focus is on the shared ICT infrastructure needs of each research community common features are huge volumes of data, remote equipment and a distributed community of interest Scope includes data repositories, sensor grids and remote equipment control etc. much middleware will be common International collaboration is key ultimately, most platforms will serve international communities Most platforms will either already have or will require significant funding funding needed for shared servers, equipment, software etc. platforms in new areas (e.g. social sciences) present a special challenge

  5. Examples of Emerging Platforms in Canada ATLAS: Tier 1 site for LHC data Canadian Light Source: Remote beamline control Compute Canada: Seven regional HPC consortia Genome Canada: Bioinformatics Montreal Neurological Institute: Brain imaging database

  6. Platforms involving Government Labs SAFORAH: Forestry labs (BC, AB, ON, QC, NL, NB) CRONOS: Environmental earth sensing (CSA, U of A, NRCan (ON, BC, AB)) Eucalyptus: Design platform/emergency services (NRC-ITT, NRCan (Ottawa), CRC, Carleton U) Space Physics Network: (NRCan, NRC, CSA and U of A) Neptune: Sensor network (NRCan, F&O, U Vic) Global repository of telescope data: (NRC Herzberg) OptIPuter: Next-generation distributed computing/visualization (CRC)

  7. NEP Program Update Call for Expressions of Interest issued September, 2007 51 EoIs were received 14 applicants invited to submit full proposals Proposals being reviewed by international expert panel Senior Steering Committee to review proposals March 28, 2008 Workshop for successful applicants planned for May, 2008 to explore possible synergies among projects

  8. Thank you !

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