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KAREN NZ gets a NREN Internet 2 October 2007
New Zealand?
KAREN • • Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network Went live December 2006 10 Gbps backbone NZ$40 M government funding NZ$5 M capability build fund All 8 NZ Universities, all 9 Crown Research Institutes, and National Library ~622 Mb/s link to US (and onto Europe) ~133 Mb/s link to Australia
KAREN Membership
http: //www. karen. net. nz
The International Picture
Building Capability • • An advisory panel A Roadmap • • What we need to do/develop Four papers, lots of pages NZ Government funding of NZ$5 M • • Travel, events, projects Targeted projects - identity management TEC funding of NZ$2. 5 M • Be. STGRID
• • • 1 st KAREN Workshop International leaders raising awareness National exemplars 160 attendees International connections Thanks to NSF!
Be. STGRID • Tertiary Education Commission funded • $NZ 2. 5 M development grant • September 2006 - March 2008 • Auckland, Canterbury and Massey Universities • www. bestgrid. org
Be. STGRID Scope Be. STGRID 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 GRID Centre(s) providing core e. Research infrastructure (communication, storage, computational)
Be. STGRID 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
Be. STGRID Grids • Collaboration • “low hanging fruit” • Access. GRID, EVO, Sakai - VRE • Computation and Data • “not so low hanging” • Transparent access to resources that best meet researchers needs • APAC alignment
NZ HPC • NZ Supercomputing Centre (Weta “surplus”) • Canterbury IBM Blue Gene • NIWA Cray XT 4 • Various clusters • Canterbury IBM P 575 • Several “BOINC” grids
Developing Structures • Ministry of Research Science & Technology has e. Science advisor • Universities establishing e. Research infrastructure - champions, etc. • Building relationships with Australia • Certificate authority • Trust federation
Related Initiatives • The Loop • Nelson - Marlborough • Wellington Loop • North Shore Education and Access Loop (NEAL) • Generally 1 Gb linking secondary schools
APAN 2008 Queenstown, NZ 4 -8 August 2008
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