cyberinfrastructure in canada

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CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE IN CANADA

Louis Houle

Associate Director, Client Services, Sciences, Health and Engineering

Definition of Cyberinfrastructure Wikipedia:

“describes the new research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services over the Internet.

In scientific usage, cyberinfrastructure is a technological solution to the problem of efficiently connecting data, computers, and people with the goal of enabling derivation of novel scientific theories and knowledge.”

http://sils.unc.edu/.../2008/03 cyberinfrastructur.htm

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“Above” Cyberinfrastructure

“Software programs, services, instruments, data, information, knowledge, and social practices applicable to specific projects, disciplines, and communities of practice.”

From: Mark Sheehan – EDUCAUSE 2008, http://www.educause.edu/ECAR/IntegratingCyberinfrastructure/163517

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“Below” Cyberinfrastructure

Software programs, services, instruments, data, information, knowledge, and social practices…



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And in the “middle…”


Integrated electro-optical components of computation, storage, and communication…

“Enabling hardware, algorithms, software, communications, institutions, and personnel. This layer should provide an effective and efficient platform for the empowerment of specific communities of researchers to innovate and eventually revolutionize what they do, how they do it, and who participates.”



CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE



Enabling hardware, algorithms, software, communications, institutions, and personnel…empower and revolutionize….

Cyberinfrastructure

Integrated electro-optical components of computation, storage, and communication…


Cyberinfrastructure is also

Cloud Computing Cyberenvironments E-Research E-Science Grid Computing VRE

www.taranfx.com/blog/tag/cloud-computing

www.medgadget.com/archives/img/245632gees.jpg

http://wallpaper-s.org/12_~_Bio-Grid_Computing.htm


What about Google? Google Palimpsest

• To accept gigantic data sets from all disciplines

• Making them open and free• Multi-terabyte disk arrays shipped via

carriers


http://www.cyrdas.org/

While many countries are investing in R&D

China’s R&D spending has grown by 22%/year since 1996. Australia spends 2% of GDP1 on research and

development, having grown 8%/year since 1996. Not satisfied with this, government recently released its innovation policy agenda to 2020.

Austria, Denmark, Germany, Iceland, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United States spend more than 2.5%

Finland, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden spend more than 3%

Israel spends more than 4%

1. GDP = Gross Domestic Product


http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Documents/PoweringIdeas_executivesummary.pdf

Where is Canada ?

BEHIND?


Canadian industry research spending in 2007 was only 1.03% of the country’s GDP

Canada in 12th place among the industrialized nations

R&D spending by Canadian businesses has been decreasing since 2002


CANARIE (http://www.canarie.ca/)

Canada's Advanced Research and Innovation Network – 1993

“It manages an ultra high-speed network, hundreds of times faster than the Internet, which facilitates leading-edge research and big science across Canada and around the world. More than 39,000 researchers at nearly 200 Canadian universities and colleges use the CANARIE network, as well as scientists at many research institutes, hospitals, and government laboratories throughout the country.”


CANARIE CANARIE also supports the development of new tools

and software that enable researchers to analyze and share very large amounts of data, collaborate more effectively, and apply research results in innovative ways. CANARIE works with researchers and developers in many scientific disciplines, across 12 regional networks in Canada, and with 100 international peer networks in more than 80 countries. These collaborations stimulate research, innovation and growth, which deliver economic, social, and cultural benefits to Canadians.


CANARIE and Regional Networks Interconnecting Provincial ORAN (Optical

Regional Advanced Networks): British Columbia : BCNET Alberta : Netera Saskatchewan : Srnet Manitoba : Mrnet Ontario : Onet Québec : RISQ Nova Scotia : ACORN-NS New Brunswick : NB ECN GigaPoP Newfoundland : NF GigaPoP Prince Edward Island : PEI GigaPoP


CANARIE’S INVESTMENT Network-Enabled Platform Program

(NEP) Two Rounds done NEP-1 (May 2008)

and NEP-2 (Oct. 2009) First program in Canada to fund

development of platforms required to analyze massive amounts of data

$25.5M invested so far


CANARIE’S NEP-2 Winners

Awarding 9 projects for $10.5M: U. of Calgary ($2.5M) – Cyber-SKA McGill ($1.8M) – GBRAIN U. Western Ontario ($1.2M) – ANISE

(continuation of Science Studio)

Cybera Inc. Calgary ($1.1M) – GeoCENS U. of Victoria ($980K) – Data from the

Deep


CANARIE’S NEP-2 Winners Cybera, Inc. Calgary ($933K) – CESWP http://ceswp.wordpress.com/

McGill ($928K) – Open Orchestra UBC ($927K) – C-BRASS U. of Victoria ($578K) – HEP - https://particle.phys.uvic.ca/

Projects to be completed by Fall 2011


CANARIE’S NEP-1 Winners Total of $15M for 10 projects (June 2008):

U. Western Ontario ($1.7M) • Science Studio - http://sciencestudioproject.com/

U. of Victoria ($500K) - https://cgs.saforah.org/

• Service Oriented Scientific Grid Computing U. of Victoria ($1.4M)

• Platform to create and support Ocean Science virtual organizations

Lakehead U. ($2M)• Health Services Virtual Organization (HSVO)


http://hsvo.ca/

CANARIE’S NEP-1 Winners Cybera Inc. ($919K)

• GeoChronos - https://geochronos.org/mod/geochronos_theme/home.php

Dalhousie U. ($1.7M)• Platform for Ocean Knowledge Management

(POKM) - http://oceantrackingnetwork.org/

Cybera Inc. ($1.1M)• Canadian Space Science Data Portal

(CSSDP) - http://portal.cssdp.ca:8080/ssdp/jsp/logon.jsp

McGill U. ($2.4M) • Canadian Brain Imaging Research Network

(CBRAIN) - http://cbrain.mcgill.ca/


CANARIE’S NEP-1 Winners

U. of Victoria ($2.3M)• Canadian Advanced Network for

Astronomical Research (CANFAR) U. of Regina ($722K)

• ONE-ITS (Intelligent Transportation System)


Some Canadian Initiatives


Neptune/Venus• http://neptunecanada.ca/

Canadian Light Source• http://www.lightsource.ca/

ATLAS Canada• http://www.atlas-canada.ca/

Canadian Virtual Observatory• http://www1.cadc-ccda.hia-iha.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cvo/

Some Canadian Initiatives Compute Canada

• https://computecanada.org/

Research Data Canada• http://data-donnees.gc.ca/eng/index.html


Ontario

ODESI (Ontario Data Documentation, Extraction Service and Infrastructure) - http://search2.odesi.ca/

o Created in 2007o Digital repository for social science data, including polling

data

o Web-based data exploration, extraction and analysis tool o Using the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) social

science data standard o Provides researchers the ability to search for survey

questions (variables) across thousands of datasets

o Funded between the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) and OntarioBuys


Synergies - Canada's SSH Research

Infrastructure A not-for-profit platform for the publication and the

dissemination of research results in social sciences and humanities published in Canada

Objectives: distribute Canadian university research results

in digital form contribute to the promotion and dissemination

of the humanities and social sciences provide integrated access to a variety of

scholarly publications promote open access to research results


http://www.synergiescanada.org/

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