1. KAREN NZ gets a NREN Internet 2 October 2007

2. New Zealand?

3. 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 KAREN

4. KAREN Membership

5. http://www.karen.net.nz

7. The International Picture

8. 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

9. 1st KAREN Workshop International leaders raising awareness National exemplars 160 attendees International connections Thanks to NSF!

10. BeSTGRID Tertiary Education Commission funded $NZ2.5M development grant September 2006 - March 2008 Auckland, Canterbury and Massey Universities www.bestgrid.org

11. BeSTGRID Scope 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 eResearch infrastructure (communication, storage, computational) BeSTGRIDBeSTGRID

12. 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

13. 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

14. NZ HPC NZ Supercomputing Centre (Weta “surplus”) Canterbury IBM Blue Gene NIWA Cray XT4 Various clusters Canterbury IBM P575 Several “BOINC” grids

15. Ministry of Research Science & Technology has eScience advisor Universities establishing eResearch infrastructure - champions, etc. Building relationships with Australia Certificate authority Trust federation Developing Structures

16. Related Initiatives The Loop Nelson - Marlborough Wellington Loop North Shore Education and Access Loop (NEAL) Generally 1Gb linking secondary schools

17. APAN 2008 Queenstown, NZ 4-8 August 2008