Canadian Sovereign Compute

_journals/2024-07-12_0828.md

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+---
+title: July 12th, 2024
+date: 2024-07-12, 08:28:02 -07:00
+section: journal
+link: https://www.caninnovate.ca/
+tags:
+  - deeptech
+  - startup
+  - Canada
+---
+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/). 

_notes/CANARIE.md

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 ## DAIR Cloud Program
 
-Uses AWS. For profit only, 2-3 month waitlist. 
+[Uses AWS](https://www.canarie.ca/). For profit only, 2-3 month waitlist. 
 
 ## Priorities
 

_notes/Canadian Sovereign Compute.md

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+---
+tags:
+  - Canada
+  - WIP
+---
+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.
+
+What if we expanded a Canada-based high speed network (10Gbps+) and had people install and run servers in a very decentralized way?
+
+e.g. Mac Studio clusters
+
+## Expanding a High Speed Network
+
+### Vancouver
+
+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.
+
+A few doors down, [[Brewster Kahle]] and [[The Permanent Library]] of [[Internet Archive Canada]] have a 10Gbps connection that we could connect directly to.
+
+[[221A]] have their [[Node Library]] project and a mini-server room in their new building on Pacific and could connect.
+
+I have connections at TELUS that might be supportive of this work.
+
+* What can we do with 10Gbps or 100Gbps connections? What equipment  is capable of such speeds?
+* Expand CANARIE (or a new, bottoms up network) outside of "just" academic institutions -- startups, non-profits, creative spaces
+* Run software as a commons for specific purposes -- p2p except over a managed
+
+### Toronto
+
+[[Hypha Co-op]] have a rack at Front Street
+
+[[1RG]] might be a physical space to run some things.
+
+[[535 Toronto]] could get looped in.
+
+### Calgary
+
+[[831 House]] in Calgary.
+
+## Local Hardware
+
+Heterogeneous hardware

_notes/Google Docs.md

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+## Turn on Markdown
+GDocs supports Markdown. You need to go into Tools > Preferences and "Automatically detect Markdown"
+
+[Google Docs Help Article on Markdown](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/12014036?hl=en#zippy=%2Ccreate-headings-with-markdown-in-google-docs)

_notes/Kyle Briggs.md

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+---
+link: https://www.caninnovate.ca/
+aliases:
+  - CanInnovate
+tags:
+  - person
+  - founder
+  - deeptech
+  - Canada
+  - startup
+  - Ottawa
+---
+> 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.
+
+EIR at University of Ottawa.