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KARENNZ gets a NREN
Internet 2October 2007
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New Zealand?
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• 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
KARENQuickTime™ and a decompressor
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KAREN Membership
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The International Picture
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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$2.5M
• BeSTGRID
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1st KAREN Workshop
• International leaders raising awareness
•National exemplars
• 160 attendees
• International connections
• Thanks to NSF!
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BeSTGRID
•Tertiary Education Commission funded
•$NZ2.5M development grant
•September 2006 - March 2008
•Auckland, Canterbury and Massey Universities
•www.bestgrid.org
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BeSTGRID ScopeFederated Top Layer: Disciplines run their own research business on top of the core infrastructure (incl sensors,visualisation, webservices, portals)
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 GRIDMiddleware ‘glue’: GRIDS - Communication GRID, Data GRID, Computational GRID
Centre(s) providing core eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)Centre(s) providing core eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)
BeSTG
RID
BeSTG
RID
BeSTG
RID
BeSTG
RID
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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
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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
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NZ HPC•NZ Supercomputing Centre
(Weta “surplus”)
•Canterbury IBM Blue Gene
•NIWA Cray XT4
•Various clusters
•Canterbury IBM P575
•Several “BOINC” grids
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•Ministry of Research Science & Technology has eScience advisor
•Universities establishing eResearch infrastructure - champions, etc.
•Building relationships with Australia
•Certificate authority
•Trust federation
Developing Structures
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Related Initiatives
•The Loop
•Nelson - Marlborough
•Wellington Loop
•North Shore Education and Access Loop (NEAL)
•Generally 1Gb linking secondary schools
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APAN 2008
Queenstown, NZ4-8 August 2008