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       title: July 12th, 2024

     

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       date: 2024-07-12, 08:28:02 -07:00

     

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       link: https://www.caninnovate.ca/

     

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         - deeptech

     

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         - startup

     

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         - Canada

     

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       I had a great intro call this week with [[Kyle Briggs]]. He's based in Ottawa and has a background as an academic researcher in biophysics and a founder of an acquired nanotechnology company. He writes at [CanInnovate](https://www.caninnovate.ca/).

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       ## DAIR Cloud Program

     

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       [Uses AWS](https://www.canarie.ca/). For profit only, 2-3 month waitlist. 

     

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       ## Priorities

     

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         - Canada

     

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         - WIP

     

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       The [[CANARIE]] network is a high speed research network connecting academic institutions and some accelerators. It previously featured physical servers for usage by Canadians, but now hands out AWS credits.

     

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       What if we expanded a Canada-based high speed network (10Gbps+) and had people install and run servers in a very decentralized way?

     

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       e.g. Mac Studio clusters

     

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       ## Expanding a High Speed Network

     

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       ### Vancouver

     

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       We've now got a "standard" business connection from TELUS at [[Z-Space]] that is 3Gbps symmetrical, for about $160CAD / month, including 5 static IP addresses. That's pretty fast, and we intend to host some things locally.

     

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       A few doors down, [[Brewster Kahle]] and [[The Permanent Library]] of [[Internet Archive Canada]] have a 10Gbps connection that we could connect directly to.

     

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       [[221A]] have their [[Node Library]] project and a mini-server room in their new building on Pacific and could connect.

     

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       I have connections at TELUS that might be supportive of this work.

     

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       * What can we do with 10Gbps or 100Gbps connections? What equipment  is capable of such speeds?

     

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       * Expand CANARIE (or a new, bottoms up network) outside of "just" academic institutions -- startups, non-profits, creative spaces

     

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       * Run software as a commons for specific purposes -- p2p except over a managed

     

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       [[Hypha Co-op]] have a rack at Front Street

     

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       [[1RG]] might be a physical space to run some things.

     

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       [[831 House]] in Calgary.

     

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       ## Local Hardware

     

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       Heterogeneous hardware

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       ## Turn on Markdown

     

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       GDocs supports Markdown. You need to go into Tools > Preferences and "Automatically detect Markdown"

     

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       [Google Docs Help Article on Markdown](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccreate-headings-with-markdown-in-google-docs)

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       link: https://www.caninnovate.ca/

     

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       > I am a Canadian biophysicist, entrepreneur, and a Vanier Scholar. I hold a PhD from the University of Ottawa in nanoscale biophysics, and I’ve spent about 10 years as n academic researcher and 4 years as CEO of Northern Nanopore Instruments, a recently-acquired nanotechnology company that my colleagues and I spun out of our research. Currently, I have a foot in both academia and entrepreneurship, and I’m involved in the startup community as a mentor and advisor focused on supporting companies navigate the valley of death between academic research and early commercial operations.

     

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       EIR at University of Ottawa.