Download - Cyberinfrastructure (CI) 2.0
CI 2.0Powering 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 a $ 9 billion companyWikinomics
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Finding Steve Fosset
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 Requires Infrastructure
Business...
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
Infrastructure...
is changing
Business...
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 rawmaterials 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 Chinawith 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
There are over 200 million registered users of MySpace
GLOBALIZATION
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
If MySpace were a country, it would be the 5th largest in the world.
Bigger than Brazil
GLOBALIZATION
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
80 million
2006 110 million
1 million
2 months
GLOBALIZATION
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
There are about 540,000 words in the
English language...
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
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
Third generation fiber optics can now...
...carry 10 trillion bits per second
over a single strand of fiber
GLOBALIZATION
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond GLOBALIZATION
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
CI 1.0
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
Integration, convergence, sharing, publishing, personalization, communication, collaboration, virtualization
CI 2.0
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE
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
• 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
EBAY
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
SensorsStatsScoring
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
ReuseMashupScale up-Scale downCut servers from 60 to 9
Players get...
...to remember their unforced errors and double-faults
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
• 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 IN OIL & GAS
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 is using clusters and remote instrumentation to deliver services
– 1.9 million data sources
– billions of calculations required to predict specific weather conditions
WEATHER CHANNEL
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond
CYBERAAlberta 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 SanchezResearch: 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
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.
EcoSys Experiment Engine - Dr. Robert Grant
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Action Items
Need cyberinfrastructure?1. Engage in a pilot project2. Become a Cybera member3. 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
CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE SUMMIT:
Innovation at Work
october 11 - 12, 2007 banff, ab
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’.
PANEL SESSIONS:
• CI: Helping Push Research Boundaries
• Solving Business Challenges with CI
• CI At Work In Alberta
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel405 Spray Avenue -- Banff, ABT: 1-800-257-7544 E: [email protected]
*There are a block of rooms set aside at
the hotel for overnight guests. To take
advantage of this conference rate, please
state you are with the Cybera group.
Geoffrey Fox Vice-President E-Science, Open Grid
Forum
Nancy Wilkins-Diehr
TeraGrid, Area Director for Science
Gateways
Dominique Thomas Software Development Manager,
CGGVeritas
Victor Spigelman SOA Business Development
Executive, IBMVENUE:
To register, or for more information on the schedule, invited speakers, and Summit activities, please visit:
www.cybera.ca
TO REGISTER:
CI 2.0 Powering Web 2.0 and Beyond Contact
Trevor Doerksen
Cybera Inc. 403-668-7039