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KAREN NZ gets a NREN

KAREN NZ gets a NREN. Internet 2 October 2007. New Zealand?. KAREN. K iwi A dvanced R esearch and E ducation N etwork Went live December 2006 10 Gbps backbone NZ$40M government funding NZ$5M capability build fund

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KAREN NZ gets a NREN

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  1. KARENNZ gets a NREN Internet 2October 2007

  2. New Zealand?

  3. KAREN • 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

  4. KAREN Membership

  5. http://www.karen.net.nz

  6. The International Picture

  7. 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

  8. 1st KAREN Workshop • International leaders raising awareness • National exemplars • 160 attendees • International connections • Thanks to NSF!

  9. BeSTGRID • Tertiary Education Commission funded • $NZ2.5M development grant • September 2006 - March 2008 • Auckland, Canterbury and Massey Universities • www.bestgrid.org

  10. BeSTGRID Scope 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 GRID BeSTGRID Centre(s) providing core eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)

  11. 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

  12. 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

  13. NZ HPC • NZ Supercomputing Centre (Weta “surplus”) • Canterbury IBM Blue Gene • NIWA Cray XT4 • Various clusters • Canterbury IBM P575 • Several “BOINC” grids

  14. Developing Structures • Ministry of Research Science & Technology has eScience advisor • Universities establishing eResearch infrastructure - champions, etc. • Building relationships with Australia • Certificate authority • Trust federation

  15. Related Initiatives • The Loop • Nelson - Marlborough • Wellington Loop • North Shore Education and Access Loop (NEAL) • Generally 1Gb linking secondary schools

  16. APAN 2008 Queenstown, NZ4-8 August 2008

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