Canadian sovereign compute

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