Kick-off University Partners Meeting September 18, 2012 Michael Owen, VP Research, Innovation & International, UOIT on behalf of Consortium partners Southern Ontario Smart Computing & Innovation Platform

SOSCIP Hub-and-Spoke Model SMEs IBM Data Centre U of T Node Western Node University of Waterloo McMaster University University of Ontario Institute of Technology Queen’s University University of Ottawa SMEs

Goals The goals of the SOSCIP include: Develop an “ecosystem” that encourages and supports HPC applications to address pressing grand challenges in research and society (energy, health, mega-cities) Expand knowledge base of people who understand how to apply HPC and analytics to address these challenges Create new opportunities for our academic and industry researchers, including graduate students and PDFs Generate creative triple helix environment -- three-way collaboration and knowledge exchange between universities, IBM, and SMEs Create new products and services that can be commercialized in Ontario and applied domestically and around the globe

Collaborative Research Areas 1.Health – Neuroscience and healthcare applications 2.Intelligent Urban Infrastructure – energy, water, transportation 3.Agile Computing – next generation supercomputers

Supporting Infrastructure IBM Investments Two primary platforms: High Performance Computing Cloud Computing Additional investment: Agile Computing Platform (Western) Blue Gene/Q Development Platform (U of T) New IBM Canada Data Centre – next generation centre for cloud and HPC (Barrie ) Expansion of IBM Canada Software Lab – big data applications (Markham )

Investment $20 M – FedDev Ontario −$17M in computing infrastructure −$3M in on-campus personnel and facilities $7 M – Ontario Centres of Excellence project funding, competitive process, with SME $8 M – Strategic Jobs and Investment Fund, Ontario – investment in IBM to assist with job creation $175 M investment from IBM to upgrade or create new facilities, in-kind contributions etc. TOTAL: ~$210 M

SOSCIP Budget Equipment: HPC infrastructure Cloud Computing Infrastructure Agile Computing Infrastructure Total: $17M People & Facilities: Facility Renovations Consortium Coordinator Technical Staff (2) Graduate Internships Post-doctoral Fellowships Total: $3M

Benefits to University Partners Access to advanced computing infrastructure Increased contract revenue – universities will be able to participate in new collaborative R&D projects with industry Enable technology transfer – through better assessment of technologies, validation of technologies at industrial scale, and the possible bundling of technologies from partner universities. Unique training opportunities for our students – exposure and access to state-of-the-art equipment coupled with technical and research expertise, and opportunities for industrial internships and work experiences

Benefits to Ontario/Canada Establish a state-of-the-art R&D ICT cluster in Southern Ontario Address important questions facing Canadian society Create highly skilled jobs Maintain and sustain investments in HPC Non-traditional research partnerships – strengthen public innovation system in Southern Ontario through research collaborations between industry and the region’s colleges and universities

Governance Structure Board of Directors −Made up of VPRs (or designates) from each university partner + senior representative from IBM −Jointly chaired by U of T and Western Scientific Advisory Committee −Appointed by board – member from each consortium member −Chaired by U of T −Meets bi-weekly −Reviews and evaluates proposals for collaborative projects

Next Steps ANNOUNCEMENT OF PHASE II CALL FOR PROPOSALS (Next Week) HPC RESOURCES PDF GRADUATE STUDENTS DO THE RESEARCH SPIN OUT KNOWLEDGE, TECHNOLOGY, STUDENTS KNOWLEDGE UPTAKE BY INDUSTRY

Call for Proposals Phase II Purpose –Facilitate new opportunities for researchers to access HPC, Blue Gene/Q, Cloud and Agile computing environments –Generating collaborations amongst consortium member universities, IBM and SMEs –Create new products and/or services

Priority Areas Agile Computing: – involves the use of hardware accelerators (FPGAs) and software to address challenging problems Health Applications: –research on the functioning of the human brain as well as analysis of medical and health data for improvement of healthcare and our understanding of disease and treatments Smarter Infrastructure: – involves computational approaches for improving living environments, including transportation, water, energy and environmental systems

Duration –End date: March 31, 2014 Available resources –Computing resources BlueGene/Q Aglile and Cloud infrastructrues –Human Resources Cloud/Agile and BlueGene/Q technical Support Cross team support (data architects, etc.) Project specific PDFs Graduate student internships