The Economics Behind Cyberinfrastructure - Earl Dodd, Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centres

Cybera Summit 2010:

The Economics Behind Cyberinfrastructure (CI)

Earl J. Dodd, Executive Director of RMSC

Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.

The Economics Behind Cyberinfrastructure (CI) – Cybera Summit 2010 © 2010 RMSC

Agenda

Thank You!

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Evolution

What is RMSC and its Business Model?

Focusing in on the Public-Private Partnership

Next Step…

2



RMSC Announcement…

Susan Baldwin

Executive Director

Compute/Calcul Canada

Has joined the RMSC Board of Directors!

Welcome Susan…

3



The Economics of CI Evolution

4

The Past

TodayThe

Future



Great North American

Supercomputing Desert

Great North American

Supercomputing

Desert

Emerging from the CI Desert

5



The Past CI Model

6

The Past

TodayThe

Future



Traditional CI Investment Model

7



Improving the CI Investment (Slightly)

8



Today’s CI Model

9

The Past

TodayThe

Future



A Better CI Investment Model

Workload Management

at Alliance Partners

Minimal Threshold System

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Digital Infrastructure

A dynamic shared platform for business & industry

plus advanced education, science & discovery

Digital infrastructure includes:

–Repositories of complex data sets

–Network-accessible research equipment

–Digital devices and distributed sensors

–High-speed networks

–Related tools and services

–Rapidly increasing computing capacity

–Support and research experts (HQP)11



Stimulate & Foster Economic Development (Jobs) by creating a new economy for the State

–State-wide effort; regional focus; international footprint

–Touching many different sectors of the economy

Represents Core Investment in Economic Recovery

–Public-Private Partnership among RMSC, State of Montana, Governments and key HPC Hardware and Software Vendors

–Unique Business Model – targeting small and medium sized businesses and tribal enterprises

–Unprecedented Access to Supercomputing Resources

Direct Expression of the Governor’s Vision for Montana

–HPC for the New Main Street™

RMSC’s Core Mission

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RMSC Proof-of-Concepts (Selected Domains)

Superfund Data Metrics

Erosion ModelingCarbon Management

Wind Energy & Placement Wildfire Modeling

Surveillance & Pattern Recognition

Climate Modeling

Electronic Design AutomationMedicare/Medicaid FraudSyndromic Surveillance

Precision Agriculture

Financial Analytics

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The Future CI Model

14

The Past

TodayThe

Future



Putting all the Pieces Together for CI

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Drive

High-Tech

Job Growth

in the Region

Int’l competitive research

Local & national needs

Projects (“Land, Energy,

Water, Health”)

Private Sector, Tribes,

Academia, Partnerships

& Alliances, Government

Education, Training

Outreach

Core HPC infrastructure

Supercomputing Services

R&D, Applications,

IP Commercialization

[Business Domains]

Business Innovation

& Transformation

[“Sandbox”]

Human Resource

Development

[People & Skills]

Supply

Cyber-

infrastructure

Demand



Enabling Enterprises to Run Their Business On A Dynamic Infrastructure HPC Cloud

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Consumer

Requests

& Operations

…

Cloud

Consumers

HPC

Cyberinfrastructure &

Application Provider

Distributed

Networked

Management CI

Service

Creation &

Deployment

Services

Delivery

Workload

Management

Automated

Orchestration

Business,

Policy & SLA

Management



RMSC Business Model

RMSC Alliance Partners

Infrastructure• Compute

• Storage

• Network

• Off-load Engines

• Visualization

Operating Environments• Linux

• Windows

• Hyper Visors

• SaaS Enablement

Intellectual Capability• Application Porting

• Optimization

• Consulting

Centers of Excellence

Intelligent Frameworks

Problem Domain

Specifics

Subject Matter

Experts

HPC Cloud Consumers

Consumer Services

•Commercial

•Government

•Academia

Removed Barriers• Culture and Inertia

• Frameworks, Resources, Tools

• Security, Price, Support

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Strategy,

Architecture,

Business Model,

and Integration

for

HPC Cloud

Solutions



Making the Economics Behind CI Work…

18

The Past

TodayThe

Future



Government & Industry Must Jointly Strengthen Their Strategic Focus on Deploying CI for Economic Benefit

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Reduce costs Improve design & CI

Find new revenues Create high-tech, high-$ jobs

Drive regulatory initiatives Improve business climate

Collaborate broadly, better Drive entrepreneurism

Seek novel bus. models Public-Private Partnerships

Ensure public safety Improve preparedness

Maintain social stability Create high-tech, high-$ jobs

Stimulate the economy Create high-tech, high-$ jobs



U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Top 10 Reasons to Love Small Business

10. Small businesses make up more than 99.7% of all employers.

9. Small businesses create more than 50% of the nonfarm private GDP.

8. Small patenting firms produce 13 to 14 times more patents per employee than

large patenting firms.

7. The 22.9 million small businesses in the US are located in virtually every

neighborhood.

6. Small businesses employ about 50% of all private sector workers.

5. Home-based businesses account for 53% of all small businesses.

4. Small businesses make up 97% of exporters and produce 29% of all export value.

3. Small businesses with employees start-up at a rate of over 500,000 per year.

2. Four years after start-up, half of all small businesses with employees remain open.

1. The latest figures show that small businesses create 75% of the net new jobs in

our economy.

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Next Step…Develop “the new” Econometrics Model around CI &

Small- to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs)

–Build a first-of-a-kind economic model to

demonstrate the economic impact of the HPC

Cloud and related CI (i.e., how directly and

indirectly does CI affect the region,

the Province or State and the community)

–Unfortunately, to the best of our knowledge,

no one is even thinking about modeling economic

impact of CI and SMEs for sustainable growth

RMSC offers its support, along with Dr. David Park

of George Washington Univ, to start the

development ▬ Any one else game to play?21


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Earl J. Dodd

Executive Director

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The Economics Behind Cyberinfrastructure - Earl Dodd, Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centres