CI 2.0
Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond OUTLINE
• Globalization
• Cyberinfrastructure in Alberta
• Cybera Inc.
• Pilot Projects
• Examples of Cyberinfrastructure
• CI Summit

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
• Struggling gold company went
to the masses and open-
sourced a site
• Mass collaboration found
more gold that company
could in previous proprietary
attempts
• Gave away data and got back
Wikinomics a $ 9 billion company

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Finding Steve Fosset
Artificial
Artificial Intelligence

What is Going on Here?

Web 2.0

Enterprise 2.0

Work 2.0

Office 2.0

Management 2.0

Cyberinfrastructure 2.0

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Engagement

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Overnight...
Almost overnight business became:
– Turbo-charged
– Technology-enabled
– Flatter
– Value-add focused
– Networked
– Virtual

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Business...
Business...
• Leverages change
• Leverages technology
• Develops based on core competencies and
functions
• Partners to add value to customer experience

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Business...
Business Requires Infrastructure

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Business...
Infrastructure...
is changing

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Supply Chain
“Location” is often
becoming less and
less relevant in the
supply chain

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Value Chain
Business relies on infrastructure to move raw
materials to higher value states.
e.g. logistics, arts, equities, manufacturing

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Alberta CI Investments

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
The 25% of the population in China
with the highest IQ’s...

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
...is greater than the total population of North America

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
There are over 200 million registered
users of MySpace

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
If MySpace were a country, it
would be the 5th largest in the
world.
Bigger than Brazil

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
1 million
80 million
2006 110
million
2 months

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
There are about 540,000
words in the
English language...

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
Third generation fiber optics
can now...
...carry 10 trillion bits per second
over a single strand of fiber

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
CI 1.0

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
Integration,
convergence,
sharing, publishing,
personalization,
communication,
collaboration,
virtualization
CI 2.0

Business Case...

Increased ROI

Decreased time to market

Disruption

Opportunity

Reach customers in new ways.

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI Examples
Impacts, issues, problems, solutions given various
examples and stated business problems

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
• Film and tape video editing was physical until 80’s
• Computers first controlled VCR’s starting in 80’s
• Complex programs with huge local storage requirements
in the 90’s
• Simple programs and huge local storage in 1998
• YouTube - video recorded, edited, stored, delivered and
processed directly from a lens on a cell phone or
computer

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Google Docs
Software program
delivered as a webservice
Word, Excel, PPT
Storage and processing in
the cloud
Compute and licencing
costs go down
Collaboration improved

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Amazon
• Simple Storage Service
• Elastic Compute Cloud
• What is the performance for specific applications? Will I save
money?
• Will it work for my business?
• Are there other options?
• Is it secure?

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond EBAY
• 200 million registered users
• 104 million items for sale
• 1.2 billion page views/day
• Thousands of servers
• Built own CI
• Not everybody has eBay like requirements, but even a
small infrastructure may be waste of resources

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Happy Feet
Lord of the Rings surplus
processors created New
Zealand Super Computer
Centre (NZSC)
NZSC opened Texas office with
oil and gas company Stillwater
Indian seismic processing
company partnership that will
rent out surplus to ‘Bollywood’
movie companies

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS
Sensors
Stats
Scoring

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS
Streaming

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS
More Stats

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS
Website

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond US OPEN TENNIS
4 Grand Slams
Reuse
Mashup
Scale up-Scale down
Cut servers from 60 to 9

Players
get...
...to remember their unforced errors and double-faults

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI IN OIL & GAS
• Tradition in simulation, modelling, super computing
and even distributed computing.
• Technology assisted Exxon to drill more than double
original estimates from North Sea.
• Virtual drilling using central control centres, data
visualization, and sensors
• mPower, Eclipse, Star Reservoir Simulation Tools

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI IN OIL & GAS
Main Applications
• Seismic Processing
• Reservoir Modeling
• Visualization
• Risk Management for Utilities
• Energy Trading
• IT Optimization

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CI IN OIL & GAS
Business Drivers
• Increasing efficiency and addressing skills shortages
• Handling more complex simulations, models and
analysis
• Addressing the issues of ‘more difficult’ exploration
(e.g. Tar Sands terrain modeling)
• Maximizing reserves and longevity sources
• Improving collaboration
• Cycles in exploration

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond WEATHER CHANNEL
Weather Channel is using
clusters and remote
instrumentation to deliver
services
– 1.9 million data sources
– billions of calculations
required to predict
specific weather
conditions

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

CYBERA
Alberta Cyberinfrastructure for Innovation
Cybera will help build
cyberinfrastructure and
promote innovation in
Alberta

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
CI ALLOWS...
Team rather than individual
Iterative rather than finished
Network based rather than locational
Managed complexity rather than imposed simplicity
Security and control; Access rather than ownership
Operating costs rather than capital costs

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERA SERVICES

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond LONG TERM VISION

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond CYBERA MEMBERS
• Two industry members on Board
• Investors in CI and Cybera
• Help to guide vision and direction
• Improved opportunities for
collaboration
• Increased human resource and
technical capacity
• Increased access to users, decision-
makers, and CI resources

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS
GeoChronos - Dr. Arturo Sanchez
Research: Impacts of land use/cover change on biodiversity
loss and habitat fragmentation
Cyberinfrastructure: Automate manual tasks in retrieving,
processing and graphing remote sensing data
Increased Productivity: Graphs created in 1-2 weeks from 2-4
months
Deferred Operating: Additional staff not needed to create
graphs

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond PILOT PROJECTS
EcoSys Experiment Engine - Dr. Robert Grant
Research: Monitoring carbon exchange to model climate change
and study resource management.
Cyberinfrastructure: Improve workflow and automate computation.
Deferred Operating: saving $50,000 a year by removing the need
for a programmer.
Deferred Capital: Increase machine usage.

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Action Items
Need cyberinfrastructure?
1. Engage in a pilot project
2. Become a Cybera member
3. Join us at the CI Summit

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Pilot Projects
• Impact industry in Alberta government
priority areas of ICT, Life Sciences, Energy
and Nanotechnology
• Looking for return on technology investment
improvements
• Looking for new ways to reach customers
• Extend benefits to others
• Advancing state-of-art

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Industry Pilot Projects
How can Cybera help your business?
1. Cybera can supply or facilitate access to a \"test-bed\" for
CI developments.
2. Cybera can connect you with CI technical experts
3. Cybera can arrange access to CI resources, such as
HPC, high-speed networks, middle-ware development
4. Cybera can provide financial support for CI development

october 11 - 12, 2007 banff, ab
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT:
Innovation at Work
presented by:
Discover how international colleagues in research and industry are using
new technologies to tackle science and business challenges, increase
return-on-technology investments, and change the way they do business.
Join Cybera for a showcase of ‘Innovation at Work’.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Geoffrey Fox PANEL SESSIONS:
Vice-President E-Science, Open Grid
Forum • CI: Helping Push Research
Boundaries
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
TeraGrid, Area Director for Science
Gateways • Solving Business Challenges
with CI
Dominique Thomas
Software Development Manager, • CI At Work In Alberta
CGGVeritas
Victor Spigelman
SOA Business Development
Executive, IBM VENUE:
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel
405 Spray Avenue -- Banff, AB
T: 1-800-257-7544
E: banffsprings@fairmont.com
TO REGISTER:
To register, or for more information
on the schedule, invited speakers, *There are a block of rooms set aside at
and Summit activities, please visit: the hotel for overnight guests. To take
advantage of this conference rate, please
state you are with the Cybera group.
www.cybera.ca

CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Contact
Trevor Doerksen
Cybera Inc.
403-668-7039
trevord@cybera.ca