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Cybera - Staff Meeting
The document outlines plans for Cybera to expand its services and operations. It discusses peering with other networks to reduce costs, forming a buying group to negotiate lower prices, partnering with Orion for backup services, developing high performance computing capabilities, and supporting broadband initiatives. It also summarizes current projects like the water and environment hub and outlines next steps such as continuing pilot projects and gathering more data to inform decisions. The overall goal is to spur innovation in Alberta through expanded cyberinfrastructure.
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Cybera - Staff Meeting
- 2. Mission Statement “To spurand 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”
- 3. Goal • Sustainable operations – Grant renewals – Member support • “We can run that network ourselves”
- 4. Revenue Generation Non-revenue Revenue • Network • Memberships • Routers • Govt. • Cash • Staff • Contractors
- 8. Best Practices • Orion – Education backup • BCNet – Peering • Rocky Mountain Supercomputer Centers – On-demand HPC
- 9. Best Practices -Orion BACKUP
- 10. Backup • Partnered withcommercial service • 24/7 support • Located in province • Scalable • Secure • Affordable
- 11. Best Practices -BCNet PEERING & GROUP BUYING
- 12. Peering and Buying • Network access cost reduction – Peering • Service improvement • Network efficiency – Academic cost reduction – Commercial possibilities
- 13. The Internet Google $$ $$ Facebook Large ISP $$ $$ Large Large ISP ISP $$ $$ U of A
- 14. The Internet Google $$ $$ Facebook Large ISP $$ $$ Large Large ISP ISP $$ $$ Cybera U of A U of C etc,…
- 15. What is Peering? 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 04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 15
- 16. The Internet +Internet Exchanges Google $$ $$ Facebook Large Microsoft ISP $$ $$ Large IX Switch ISP Large ISP $$ $$ Akamai Cybera U of A U of C etc,…
- 17. Private peering Google • Google is the single largest content provider • Many Google services, incl Youtube.com • 1Gb/s private connection between BCNET and Google • IPv6 and IPv4 04-05-2010 BCNET Peering in Seattle Slide 17
- 18. Best Practices -Montana COMMERCIAL HPC
- 19. Alberta Co. Cybera Pilot Commercial Cloud Cloud
- 20. College Education Cybera Pilot Utility Cloud Cloud
- 21. 4,000,000 # of users $ / User
- 22. Population Density (Population / Sq Km) 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
- 23. Alberta – PopulationDistribution
- 24. 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.
- 25. “Governments must regard the internet as basic infrastructure -‐ just like roads, waste and water” -‐ Dr Hamadoun Toure, Secretary-‐general of the InternaLonal TelecommunicaLon Union “…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
- 26. 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
- 27. Federal Initiatives • Canada’sEconomic Action Plan – $225M • Broadband Canada – Connecting Rural Canadians • $76.9M for first 52 projects 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 0
- 28. Federal Initiatives Company Region Homes Corridor Taber, Pincher Creek, Ranchland and Counties of Communica Cypress, Forty Mile, Warner, Lethbridge and tions Inc. Cardston 5,577 Bighorn and Counties of Clearwater and CCI Yellowhead 2,465 CCI Counties of Red Deer, Lacombe, and Ponoka 1,867 CCI Athabasca Region, Peace River Region 11,335 Wood Buffalo, Bonnyville and counties of CCI Lakeland, St. Paul, and Smoky Lake 1,488 PCC Communica Forty Mile, Warner, Cypress, and extended tions Inc. regions of Willow Creek 1,516 PCC Regions of Crowfoot, Vegreville, and Wainwright 8,134 PCC Foothills, Rocky View, and Mountain View 2,475 Jasper, Kananakis, Bighorn and Counties of PCC Clearwater and Yellowhead 436 PCC North Central Region / Stony Plain District 1,817 Peace Region / Peace River & Grande Prairie PCC Districts 1,905 Total 39,015
- 29. Olds, Alberta • 7,200 residents 4,000,000 • 3,200 Homes & Businesses • College • FTTP Vulcan, Alberta # of users • 2,000 residents • Area wireless Community Lab $ / User
- 30. “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
- 31. Next Generation Needs • Exascale computing
- 33. Next Generation Needs • DIYBio
- 36. Homes Businesses Homes Businesses Homes Businesses Homes Distribution SuperNet Point Content Satellite Co. Farm Cybera Pilot SuperNet Cloud Commercial Cloud
- 37. Next Steps • Peering • Buying group • Backup service • HPC development • Broadband initiatives / Public compute utility • Pilot project continuation – CESWP / Water / SKA / GreenStar etc.
- 38. Next Steps -Peering • Peering through BC Net connections • U of A / Google connection • AITF • Universities • AIHS, AIBS, AIEE • Other educational facilities
- 39. Next Steps -Peering
- 40. Next Steps –Buying Group • Gathering economic data • Contract development • Negotiation with providers • Negotiation with members • Setting renewal period
- 41. Next Steps –Backup Service • ORION assistance (Phil Baker) • Gathering data – economics and demand • Partner selection • Detailed implementation planning • Marketing to members
- 42. Next Steps –HPC • Further study of RMSC model • Gathering data – economics and demand • Equipment selection (Capability and Carbon) • Hosting selection ( depends on timeframe ) • Detailed implementation planning • Marketing to industry • Marketing to educational sector
- 43. Next Steps –Broadband / Utility • Research with TR Labs on requirements – Bandwidth – Thin client model – VM software • Pilot study in small community • Involvement of Supernet management • This is where the federal government is spending…
- 45. Projects • Water &Environment Hub – New hire – Alex Joseph – Excellent working relationship with WaterSmart – Bow River basin first module
- 46. Current Projects • GreenStarNetwork • Sensor Networks • MoboVivo • Earth Observation • Water Hub • Space Weather • ESRI / CSPG • Radio Astronomy • Medical Research • Westgrid • Data Gardens
- 47. Cloud Services forWater 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