1. A Brief Overview Andrew K. Bjerring President and CEO

2. New Mandate (2007-2012) >Five-year funding of $120 million: – $24 M for 2007-08; additional $96 M to be “drawn down” annually >Two Objectives: – Maintain, extend and upgrade Canada’s R&E Network – Develop innovative technology (shared research tools and next- generation architectures) >First year achievements: – Transition to new backbone completed – Selection of initial technology innovation projects nearing completion – Selection of initial infrastructure extension projects nearing completion

3. CANARIE’s Network >National Communications Infrastructure for R&E: - Includes traditional layer 3 network - Most of capacity allocated as dedicated, end-to-end lightpaths - NRC and other federal labs operate their own networks using lightpaths >UCLP was a major innovation during previous mandate – short for “User Controlled LightPaths” – Enables users to manage their own wide area networks – Built around web services and Service-Oriented-Architectures (SOA)

5. CANARIE’s Network-Enabled Platforms Program >“Platform” is a new metaphor to capture the same underlying vision and infrastructure as “grids” and “cyberinfrastructure” – focus is on the shared ICT infrastructure needs of each research community – common features are huge volumes of data, remote equipment and a distributed community of interest >Scope includes data repositories, sensor grids and remote equipment control etc. – much middleware will be common >International collaboration is key – ultimately, most platforms will serve international communities >Most platforms will either already have or will require significant funding – funding needed for shared servers, equipment, software etc. – platforms in new areas (e.g. social sciences) present a special challenge

6. Examples of Emerging Platforms in Canada >ATLAS: Tier 1 site for LHC data >Canadian Light Source: Remote beamline control >Compute Canada: Seven regional HPC consortia >Genome Canada: Bioinformatics >Montreal Neurological Institute: Brain imaging database

7. Platforms involving Government Labs >SAFORAH: Forestry labs (BC, AB, ON, QC, NL, NB) >CRONOS: Environmental earth sensing (CSA, U of A, NRCan (ON, BC, AB)) >Eucalyptus: Design platform/emergency services (NRC-ITT, NRCan (Ottawa), CRC, Carleton U) >Space Physics Network: (NRCan, NRC, CSA and U of A) >Neptune: Sensor network (NRCan, F&O, U Vic) >Global repository of telescope data: (NRC Herzberg) >OptIPuter: Next-generation distributed computing/visualization (CRC)

8. NEP Program Update >Call for Expressions of Interest issued September, 2007 >51 EoIs were received >14 applicants invited to submit full proposals >Proposals being reviewed by international expert panel >Senior Steering Committee to review proposals March 28, 2008 >Workshop for successful applicants planned for May, 2008 to explore possible synergies among projects

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