CyberInfrastructure A Driver For Economic Development

•  Super-economies dwarf Canada

•  Can’t compete on size

•  Two strategies;

Global Competition

Innovation

Innovation

Alberta R&D

Commercial HPC Cloud

Cybera HPC Cloud

Innovation

Collaboration

Collaboration

Collaboration

U of A

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Google Facebook

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Collaboration

Cybera

U of A U of C etc,…

Large ISP

Large ISP

Large ISP

Google Facebook

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Cybera

U of A U of C etc,…

Large ISP Large

ISP

Large ISP

Google Facebook

IX Switch

Microsoft

Akamai $$

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Collaboration

Very Big Data

Very Big Data

SKA Tool 1

Tool 2

Very Big Data

VBD

Finance

Medicine

SKA

Brain

Genomics

Oil &

Gas