Earl Dodd, Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centres, presented these slides as part of the Cybera Summit 2010 session The Economics Behind Cyberinfrastructure.

1. Cybera Summit 2010:
The Economics Behind
Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
Earl J. Dodd, Executive Director of RMSC

2. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Agenda
 Thank You!
 Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Evolution
 What is RMSC and its Business Model?
 Focusing in on the Public-Private Partnership
 Next Step…
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3. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
RMSC Announcement…
Susan Baldwin
Executive Director
Compute/Calcul Canada
Has joined the RMSC Board of Directors!
Welcome Susan…
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4. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
The Economics of CI Evolution
The The
Today
Past Future
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5. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Emerging from the CI Desert
Great North American
Supercomputing Desert
Great North American
Supercomputing
Desert
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6. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
The Past CI Model
The The
Today
Past Future
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7. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Traditional CI Investment Model
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8. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Improving the CI Investment (Slightly)
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9. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Today’s CI Model
The The
Today
Past Future
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10. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
A Better CI Investment Model
Minimal Threshold System
Workload Management
at Alliance Partners
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11. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
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)
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12. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
RMSC’s Core Mission
 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™
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13. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
RMSC Proof-of-Concepts (Selected Domains)
Precision Agriculture Wildfire Modeling
Wind Energy & Placement Climate Modeling
Erosion Modeling Financial Analytics
Carbon Management Surveillance & Pattern Recognition
Superfund Data Metrics Syndromic Surveillance Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Electronic Design Automation
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14. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
The Future CI Model
The The
Today
Past Future
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15. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Putting all the Pieces Together for CI
Int’l competitive research Private Sector, Tribes,
Local & national needs Academia, Partnerships
Projects (“Land, Energy,
R&D, Applications,
& Alliances, Government
Water, Health”) IP Commercialization
[Business Domains]
Supply Demand
Drive
High-Tech
Job Growth
in the Region
Human Resource Business Innovation
Development & Transformation
[People & Skills] [“Sandbox”]
Cyber-
Education, Training Core HPC infrastructure
Outreach infrastructure Supercomputing Services
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16. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Enabling Enterprises to Run Their Business
On A Dynamic Infrastructure HPC Cloud
HPC Service
Cloud Cyberinfrastructure & Creation &
Consumers Application Provider Deployment
Consumer Distributed Business,
Requests Networked Policy & SLA
& Operations Management CI Management
…
Automated Workload Services
Orchestration Management Delivery
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17. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
RMSC Business Model
Strategy,
Architecture,
RMSC Alliance Partners Business Model,
and Integration
for
Infrastructure HPC Cloud
• Compute
• Storage
• Network
Centers of Excellence Solutions
• Off-load Engines
• Visualization
Operating Intelligent
Environments
• Linux
• Windows
Frameworks
HPC Cloud Consumers
• Hyper Visors Problem
• SaaS Enablement Domain
Consumer Services Removed Barriers
Specifics
Intellectual • Commercial • Culture and Inertia
Capability Subject • Government • Frameworks, Resources, Tools
• Academia • Security, Price, Support
• Application Porting Matter
• Optimization Experts
• Consulting
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18. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Making the Economics Behind CI Work…
The The
Today
Past Future
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19. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Government & Industry Must Jointly Strengthen Their
Strategic Focus on Deploying CI for Economic Benefit
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
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20. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
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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21. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
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?
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22. Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers, Inc.
Thank You !
Earl J. Dodd RMSC, Inc.
Executive Director Suite 310
+1-406-533-6733 Office 65 E. Broadway
earl.dodd@rmscinc.org Butte, MT 59701-9305 USA
+1-406-533-6733 Office
+1-406-533-6830 Fax
info@rmscinc.org
http://www.rmscinc.org
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