D-Drive

World Leaders in

Distance

Collaborative Technology

Core staff: D. Langstroth and S. Wilson

GlobalConnections

Dalhousie is Ideally

Situated

Cost Effective Solutions

based on

integrating

Multipleand

Changing Technologies

InternationalLeaders

and

Consultantsto…

•Canadian Universities and Networks•Canadian Research Outreach (VROC)•Canadian Armed Forces in Kandahar•Pearson Peacekeeping Centres

•US Universities•US Dept of Commerce (NIST)

•Private Industry

•International Mathematical Union (CEIC)•National AG program in Australia•National AG programmes in UK•E-science in Chile and Portugal•Caribbean initiative (reliant on ASCI)

Dal Industrial Liaison has not been very helpful

Glooscap (240cpu HPC backend)

Increasing Demand •Environment appears useful at all levels and in all areas

•Usage has increased substantially this academic year•Frequently double booked now•Will improve when AARMS/ACEnet room opens - Math•Word of mouth better than open houses and fliers•Very few unhappy first-time users

Technology refresh may be sought in Fall

Google Trends shows ramping up of internet

searches for “Smart” technologies

A Sample of Activities

from

February 2007

•Coast-to-Coast Seminars: 12 Canadian Universities•Presentation of Paper to EU-conference in Lisbon•Interview with University of Missouri Selection Committee•Acadia Professor attends Dal Analysis Seminars•Mathematics 4800 Course given in D-Drive•AARMS Combinatorics Seminar starts (NS, NB, NL)•Oceanography Research Group working sessions•Dalhousie FCS Open House presentations•ACEnet Scientific Directorate Meetings (NS, NB, NL)•AARMS Regional Executive Meeting (NS, NB, NL)•Meetings of Dalhousie Student Chapter of the ACM•Planning Meetings for Distance Course in Economics

(NS and NB)•National Meeting and Presentations of the SAGE

Network, funded by SSHRC (BC, ON, QU, NS)

UpcomingProjectsthat are

PremisedUpon

or

Expect theContinuedExistence

of this Facility

•Canadian Cyberpsychology and Anxiety Virtual LabStephane Bouchard CRC (U. de Q.) funded by CFI (06)

•Participation in Aware Home project

•Atlantic Computational Excellence Network (ACEnet) •Compute Canada (NPF) – CFI anticipates national AG (06)

•Atlantic Association for Research in the Mathematical Sciences (AARMS)

•NSERC USRA summer seminar series NS, NB and NL

•Atlantic Shared Curriculum Initiative (ASCI)

• Many Summer Camps and Open Houses

•AIF, SSHRC, NSERC, MITACS, NSF, SMART, MAPLE as current/potential project funding sources

A fullyInteractive

Environment

Valuable for many

different groups