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The Tiger, Financial News Network. Good morning everyone, Basel Chapman here with the Tiger Financial News Network, 10am market update. We're looking at the Dow up 78 to 34,233 just each day. It's just squeaked to a new recovery high and it's above just above the Chemwave inside track repellence zone. We're looking at the S&P also had a very nice early move. Looking at it, this is leg B actually in the Chemwave methodology. Leg B and we're looking at up 8 at 43,86. Let's go to the QQQ. We've got another extension, single leg A to the upside just like the Dow 372.95 up 31 cents. Not a little bit today, but it's had a spectacular move from the 340 to 372 fabulous. IWM the Russell 2000, we're looking at down 28 cents in 171.42. Now this is going to be very interesting because gold is down about 8 at 1965. This is a Chemwave inside track, sorry this is a Chemwave Roman candle right here yesterday. So if we continue here for about another 30 minutes, there's a good chance we're going to test the 200 period exponential moving average of 1951, is that a 51 or 61, so 961. And you're looking at the dollar. The dollar is actually holding quite nice, it's up 2230 seconds and 105.74 back in the inside track above that. And the weekly chart still has a fantastically strong 9 period over the 14 period moving average, looking at the bonds. And this is going to be really important because bonds are holding nicely, they're up about a half a point and a hundred and fourteen and a half. We'll see if this can hold. If this can hold, it's going to be quite important because you've got all these different aspects. You've got Crudel pulling back sharpies down 90 cents, that's 7648. So if you've got all these different potential helps to the market holding, that's going to be important. But I am looking and based on my futures work, the market made a high, just a moment to go at 4408, 4407.75 at a peak D in the one minute chart, a peak D in the five minute chart and a possible peak F in the five minute. Are we going to see a bit of a digestive phase today? I think that's the case. Is that the high? I don't know if it's the high. This is a pretty sharp, quick pullback. I'll see you in a few months for the Tiger Technicians Hour and check out more things.


Let's hear what David Kohn has to say. He joins Meredith now on the field. Thanks, Bob. I'm joined by David Kohn. David, the Yankees find themselves with their backs against the wall again this postseason. Game three, they are down 0-2. But one thing we do know, they play incredibly well here in the Bronx. They do, and they have their best pitcher on the mound and Garrett Cole. And all you ask for is just a chance to get some hope back into the series. And you have to win game three when you're down 0-2 in order to interject some hope not only into your team, but also into the fan base as well. You mentioned Garrett Cole had an outstanding performance in game one and game four of the ALDS. What did you take away from those, David? Well, I think that he's comfortable in his own skin here now, you know, even though he's had a great career. And his postseason numbers really kind of speak for themselves. He's got outstanding postseason numbers. But there was still that question in pinstripes. Is he going to have those signature moments? And he clearly has. He clearly is the leader of the staff. And I think he's prepared better than anybody to take on this 0-2 start tonight. And you look at this Astros lineup, very different animal than the Guardians. What is the biggest thing in trying to navigate him through this Astros lineup? Well, I think, obviously, you know, they've done a good job against their big hitters. And that's what you look at with Houston. You're looking, oh, my gosh, Alvarez and Altuve zoned us and Braggman. For the most part, other than Braggman's three-run homerun, they've done a good job against those guys. I think they need to bury the bottom of the order better. Maldonado really hurt them in the first two games as well, and certainly Jeremy Pena and the two-hole too, I think, has gotten too many good pitches to hit. He's a free swinger. He's a guy that will chase as evidenced by his on-base percentage on the year. So I think they need to zero in on some of the other guys as well, and not just the big bobbers. On the flip side, the Astros are going with Christian Javier this evening. And David, he really had their number last time he faced the Yankees. Well, he's got a high fastball that really rides and a good breaking ball. He's a swing and miss pitcher. His strikeout rate is through the moon this year, and it's going to be more of the same. If you're looking for the Yankees to change their offensive approach and strikeout less, tonight's probably not going to be that night. But nonetheless, with his high fastball, if you can get some guys on base, he is prone to give up homeruns, and that's really got to be the formula for the Yankees. That's why we have the lineup in there that we see tonight. You mentioned the offensive approach for the Yankees. You look at the first two games, 30 strikeouts combined for the offense over those first two games. And after the game, a lot of the players spoke about trying to just make more contact, change the approach a little bit. But how difficult is that to do when you've been doing it one way the entire season? Yeah, it is difficult to do. And I think the one thing they could do is be a little more aggressive on the first pitch. I think they've gotten themselves into situations where they've gotten down in the count by allowing the pitcher to spot a strike early. And those are sometimes the best pitches to hit. They get more of the plate early, whether it's a fastball or breaking ball, sort of a cutter or slider early in the count. Those are the ones they've let go by. So I would encourage them to be very aggressive on the first pitch. If it's a good pitch, let it fly. You mentioned the Yankees lineup a little different. Yet again tonight, Anthony Rizzo is going to lead off. We saw that a couple of times throughout the course of the regular season. And Aaron Boone really saying he wanted to split up the lefties. Do you like Rizzo leading off tonight? I do. I have no problems at all with this lineup. I think it's the best chance they have to score some runs and to hit some home runs in this ballpark. And it's obvious that when you're down 0-2 and you've struck out this many times, that you've got to put your best foot forward. And I think this is one lineup too. I think Aaron Boone, even though people sort of suggest that this is a collaborative effort and the analytics determines the lineup, I think Aaron Boone has his imprint on this lineup. Aaron Boone said he kind of went back and forth between Isaiah Kiner-Felefa and Cabrera at shortstop. Ultimately, he went with Cabrera. Are you at all surprised by that? Not really, because once again, I think, because the left-handed bat in this ballpark gives them a chance to have one swing, that might make a difference. Cabrera might click one with somebody on base on a two-run home run. He's certainly capable of doing it. I think that's the reason. I think Aaron Boone just said, you know what? At every single spot, I need my best bat potential, my best offense there in the lineup. And that's why we see this lineup tonight. It seemed like there was a little bit of a question whether or not Aaron Boone would feel comfortable putting John Carlos Stan in left field here at Yankee Stadium. He is deciding to do so tonight. I'll speak with John Carlos Stan in just a little bit, but any doubt in your mind that he's going to be capable of patrolling left field, healthy enough to do so, David? Well, it's a calculated risk without a doubt. He hasn't been out there since 2019, I believe. So certainly, you kind of hold your breath a bit, but you have Harrison Bader in center field to cover the ground necessary. He knows that. He'll probably shade over that way and help anything in the gap. So you're going with your offense here, and that's the role of the dice that you have. You make bets. You live with them, and certainly there's risk, no matter which way you go. And Aaron Boone was actually asked if there was any consideration to moving Bader over to left, judge to center, keeping Stanton in right field. And while he said it was something that he thought about that was talked about, at the end of the day, they felt like Bader patrol center field so well, they didn't want to move him, especially considering he is coming off of injury as well. So they opted to go this way, though Aaron Boone said that defensive alignment may be not ideal. Still, he feels as though they are solid defensively. Now, David, when you look at this one tonight, down O2, what is the biggest key for the Yankees? What will be the deciding factor? Well, I think the deciding factor is still going to be offense, and that is the story of the day. I think Eric Cole will do a good job of keeping his team in the game. He may end up giving up a runner, too. He may even give up a home run here in this ballpark, because that's kind of been his MO all year long, but he's also knuckled under and kept his team in the game and limited the damage. Question for the Yankees is offense. They got to get somebody to hit some home runs.  Well, Yankees fans certainly would love to see it. They're filing in the stadium right now. One thing we know about postseason baseball in the Bronx, it is going to be loud. For David Cohn, I'm Meredith Barack, and we're going to take a quick step aside when we...


Okay, well, let's get started. Thanks for joining us. We may have some more people come in. It's a bit of a walk So thanks for joining us this afternoon. I'm Toby Owen, and this is Tim Bell We'll be presenting to you today And the talk originally was hybrid open stack clouds and and we thought we should probably rename it After the fact towards hybrid open stack clouds because this is really the beginning of of our project together And I'll we'll get into this in a minute, but start by Introducing the folks involved in this this particular project. I work for Rackspace and product strategy And I'm based in London. This is Tim Bell works at CERN based in Geneva And the third gentleman there is Merrick Dennis, who's our distinguished fellow developer working at CERN on Cloud Federation Is Merrick here? There he is so And the obligatory legal slide So let me walk through the agenda real quick and then I'm going to turn it over to to Tim to introduce CERN and their use case But so we'll start with introducing what CERN is as an organization What they're doing to evolve their IT infrastructure from a grid computing model into a cloud computing model based on open stack We'll talk a little bit about open labs Which is the project that we're engaged in together what that is and what we're doing We'll talk through kind of the use case for federating federating open stack clouds Get into some details of what we've done so far in the project and then sort of a glance ahead at what we'll be doing over the next year Tim this one yeah great Just out of interest how many of you know what goes on at CERN Okay, that's good. So I'll go through these parts relatively quickly just filling in some background for the guys who don't know the details so We're the guys who are basically running the largest piece of scientific equipment in the world It's a 27 kilometer tunnel and an accelerator Buried a hundred meters underground near the Alps in Geneva Our basic goal is to understand how the universe works and what's it made of and we do this by sending around beams of particles And colliding them together The beams themselves have the energy of a high-speed train So if you imagine doing this about 11,000 times a second Cliding them together. That's a lot of train wrecks that we have to analyze The analysis takes place using cathedral size cameras these things Hundreds of megapixel cameras They record the collisions and then based off that we understand what has been the fundamental particles that are involved For those of you that have followed physics news recently based on the research work We did professor Higgs and Engelbert collected the Nobel Prize a few weeks ago And this is the work that helped them do that So to focus on some of the aspects that we come to around the cloud work I need to explain a little bit about how we actually work on the data The detectors themselves record about one petabyte a second So this is serious amounts of data that need to be filtered down At the first level we do that with a set of hardware and then after that the data itself is sent to large farms of servers These are generally around one thousand to one thousand five hundred standard Intel based CPUs and Their job is to look at the collisions themselves and try and work out which ones are interesting and which ones are not At the moment we're in a situation where we're upgrading the the accelerator We ran for the first four years from 2009 to 2013 We now have two years during which we warm up the accelerator to room temperature from minus 271 degrees Kelvin and Now moving on to a situation where in 18 months in 2015. We will then be turning it back on again So what do we get at the end of that? We have a large data problem around 110 petabytes at the moment We're adding about 35 petabytes a year probably going up to about 50 petabytes a year when we turn the accelerator back on again The physicists want us to keep this data for about 20 years minimum How do we do it large piles of tapes currently about 46,000 160 tape drives, so it's a pretty intensive data management problem However associated with that is then the problem. What do you do with all of this data? And this is where when we came to start to analyze the data and work out the Architecture under which we could be analyzing this volume of data this complexity of data At the time the technologies that were available were grid technologies based on the Globus toolkits These allow us to construct a hierarchical system of data centers So at the center, there's the tier zero center at CERN This is where we receive the data from the accelerator and we make sure there's a copy that's stored and kept We then send that data around to 11 other centers So a minimum the data is one copy at CERN one copy the other 11 centers and Those 11 centers then communicate out to a hundred other Organizations universities research labs around the world So as far as a grid structure goes it was very hierarchical Clear roles the tier zero large quantities of storage the tier ones some local tape storage and the tier twos No local storage at all equally the workloads were distributed So that the tier twos were used mainly for simulation So that's trying to work out given theory What should collisions look like and end user analysis where you take a small amount of data and work out? Does it match the theory? So as an environment this has provided us very very useful computing capacity for the past four years that we've been running the LHC However, it became increasingly clear that we needed a more flexible model as we go forward The structure of software around this hierarchical distribution of data involves a lot of code and much of that is unique to the research and the high-end physics environments This is not something the longer term is a sustainable model So we need to be sure we're in a mode where we are following the standards the industry is defining Because in the end that's the sustainable direction to be working in So then we have the challenge and this is modeled on the the head of the worldwide computing grader Ian bird So grids in themselves. It's a distributed system with a single form of credentials We use the x509 certificate standard to validate a user and with that then the users able to access the resources across the whole grid They have associated with themselves a concept of an organization which defines which resources they should be allocated to and equally the priority of the work they're doing Users find x509 certificates extremely hard work to manage they find the using of the grid interfaces also to be somewhat confusing And at the same time the users are starting to look towards cloud computing which they're encountering their everyday lives as Being an alternative and simpler model under which we could be doing this work However Clouds themselves provide you a data center concept. So it provides you with an endpoint There is no structure to them to allow those date those clouds to be connected and structured together So in moving from a grid to a cloud you lose that structure and that ability to share The two technologies are actually very complimentary at the moment at CERN We're rolling out the open stack cloud for the use in the tier zero And in this case we're actually deploying a fair amount of the resources to run grid computing on top of the cloud So we take the legacy grid software we instantiate virtual machines, and we run those virtual machines on the cloud At such time as users want cloud resources Then we can reduce the amount of grid resources and allocate them more cloud resources So using a cloud as the underlying technology gives us a lot of flexibility At the same time when we look at the computing models, we're using a model here from cloud scaling Randy bias is always a great guy to go to when you need a picture and a clear explanation So what we have is a situation where at the top level we have what we will call the classical Parallel programings MPI low latency connections CERN doesn't actually have that much a technology in this area We use largely standard Ethernet connection between our servers We have a few programs such as the ones in engineering that need to analyze the detector Geometries and the large-scale engineering stresses and strains airflow But the majority of our computing models is actually down in the high throughput high scalability computing If you brown mind we've got 11,000 collisions a second It's very easy to take the first collision and give it to one virtual machine take the second collision Give it to another virtual machine. We are embarrassingly parallel in terms of our model So that allows us to be considering different approaches to how we can do computing So where we come across situations like this situations where we can see technology changing We have a framework under which we can collaborate with industry and investigate these areas So the CERN open lab is an ability for various organizations commercial organizations to work with CERN and use the extreme computing challenges of the Large Hadron Collider To then work on what should be the future computing technologies to address the CERN use cases So example companies are Oracle Large-scale databases Intel process technology HP on the networking Siemens on control and We have a new member recently Rackspace to work with us on this area that I'm describing here So the aim behind this is getting to a virtuous cycle. So basically we take an extreme computing challenge We then apply that and do research into what are the computing technologies that we need in order to solve that problem With that we then take solutions in this area And we throw them at the other end of this high-speed train of one petabyte a second of data and see how they cope And eventually that comes around into the standard product streams that we can then take advantage of in large-scale production So as part of this work early on in this year, we started to use the Rackspace public cloud Here we were taking simulation workflowed This is trying to simulate the universe rather than analyzing the results of the experiment And we ran that through in the Rackspace public cloud the benefit of this work is its high CPU Low-disk IO and in particular very low network IO So this is exactly the kind of workload where when the CERN computer center starts to get full We can be looking to take this workload and move it out to a public cloud And then allocate the CERN computing resources where we need the high IO throughput to the data These tests were very successful. We ran CERN standard workloads in a very short time getting them up and running with good reliability So it showed that we can use clouds outside of the CERN main one Then as we started to reflect on where this could go we then said well now if we take this as a further extension We've got the CERN private cloud currently about 22,000 cores going up to about 300,000 cores in the next 18 months We have the Rackspace public clouds So those we could potentially be taking advantage of if we can find an easy way for the visitors to move their workload between the two sites At the same time you might remember those large computing farms that are sitting right next door to the accelerator Since we're doing the upgrade at the moment. Those farms are not being used In fact one of the problems for one of them is that they have a condensation problem So they need to be leaving the machines on in order to avoid an excessive level of humidity in the servers So why not use them for something productive So there are two large trigger farms in the Atlas experiment and the CMS experiment Each one heading towards 10,000 20,000 cores So what the guys have done is they've spun open stacked clouds on those now the CERN IT department the central IT department doesn't manage it It's managed by the experiments So we've got independent clouds sharing the same technologies Meanwhile other sites High-end physics computing sites are also starting to deploy open stack. So I am 2p3 in Leon the Brookhaven National Laboratory outside New York the Nectar Center in Australia and Many others for example, I've just heard that the IHEP Center in Beijing's deploying the open stack cloud too Now what this means is we've got a large pool of resources there that's currently a set of islands and That's when we asked ourselves a question of is there a way under which we can get an easier Sario for the physicists to be using these resources Rather than the current structure of multiple separate islands That's point of passives Toby so this is very recently actually we officially started our our open lab project with CERN Kicked off the 1st of October so just a month ago And we do have a full-time developer who I introduced at the beginning Merrick So he he's working full-time on the project that I'm about to describe Entirely in the open-set community to help with the problem that that Tim just described. How do we take all of these? similar tech Technically-based clouds, right, but they're operating independently and start to make them a Viable replacement for the grid technology that they're using today So we defined a success criteria for this which is can we demonstrate? Federated identity and then additionally some aggregated services across these clouds and we're going to start as a target a Private cloud that we've installed on on some of the equipment at the CERN data center Connecting to the rack space public cloud both are open-stack based Or potentially a different cloud to look at it graphically These are the potential use cases, right? We've got a public cloud running open-stack we've got the the test open-stack private cloud that we've built for this project and we've got Actually several open-stack clouds that CERN has built and managed and really any of these permutations Could be a valid use case So some of the goals we have For this this year of research one is to develop a reference architecture for how we can federate open-stack clouds Along the way and actually some of this work is already started. I'll get to that in a minute Hope to contribute lots of blueprints and code as we progress through this To the community as well as outputting Talks like this. This is sort of a very early status update So we don't have a lot of progress to report But we hope over time that there'll be more significant contributions And then more sort of technical white paper so others can build on the work that we're doing here together So how are we doing this? Well, I mentioned we've we've deployed a Small private cloud. It's just a test bed for us to try things out try new code out without Getting too much into the the production environment that CERN is still actively running In in their data centers in Geneva We're going to investigate cloud Federation and Federation I Guess for the purpose of this talk. We're going to talk about areas such as authentication Image management networking and metering are just some of them right that Federation is one of those words sort of like cloud you can you can put your own definition on it So we took a broad look at what are the the use cases? What are the benefits of having these clouds work together and then what services need to to interoperate to meet that? And then our aim actually By this time next year, which we just learned is going to be in Paris So not too far from from CERN's home base in Geneva would be to demonstrate Some sort of bursting workload in a federated fashion where open stack is managing the Federation not Sort of homegrown application based code to be able to burst a workload from a private base cloud to a public cloud So why are we doing this now? right So a little bit about my background at rack space is that I helped evolve a hybrid cloud that that we developed which is really a combination of Dedicated or bare metal servers connecting to public cloud And in that we've had a lot of I've had a lot of conversations with customers About hybrid and and what makes sense what we found and what I found is that there are a lot of There's a lot of interest when you talk about sort of multi-cloud Federation But a lot of those use cases are a little bit down the road everyone gets excited when you hear the concept of this But if you ask the question, okay, what are you going to run on this? The question is often not really answered very well today Well with CERN we found a use case that clearly they have the data right they've got the computing needs Essentially Tim told me that any amount of resource we gave them they could run a hundred percent full out For as long as they had it and so here's a great user That can consume this in a pretty significant scale And so this is really a an opportunity to sort of be at that cutting edge of okay. Here's a real-life use case. It's Something that we can we can use to sort of push this forward in the community so we met about a month ago and decided on some priorities, so if we're going to solve Federation and have open stack as a Collection of projects Managed Federation What order do we need to tackle these in and the obvious first choice was was identity, right? If you can't log in with the same credentials to multiple clouds, you can't really do much a Good way to think about this is sort of like using your Facebook account to log into multiple web services, right? Well, it's not that hard if you have two or three accounts across two or three service providers Once you get into dozens it gets pretty hard to manage not to mention that you have multiple services within each of one of those clouds right and so I did identity is really the The starting point and this is sort of the the story that we've written to define this as a user I want to take my single set of credentials and be able to access services across multiple clouds We'll get into progress in just a minute, but I want to walk through kind of the top couple of priorities here first The next set is really aggregated services So once we have the ability to take that single set of credentials and access multiple services or multiple clouds with that single login One of the things I need to know about what services are available across all of these clouds I want To authenticate using that single set of credentials and I'd like to get a back and answer of the full set of services available to me To me based on that token based on that identity that I have And and sort of a fast follow here is I'd like to be able to take And build an image and be able to deploy in one place at one time and be able to deploy that across multiple clouds So obviously the identity work that we're starting is being done within the Keystone project service catalog Likewise will be done within within Keystone and image management is going to be done sort of within the Glantz project And that's sort of where we think we'll we hope to get within 12 months Because this is a research oriented project. It's always a good idea to sort of define more More work than you might hope to get to And so future areas that that we took a look at were okay once we have those things solved There's a whole list of things within the compute service from a Federation standpoint that could really stand to benefit And add value there's a lot of needs that come up around usage, right? Usage is complex enough within a single cloud particularly within a service provider context where you have multiple users But now extend that into to multiple multiple clouds or multiple service providers There's a lot more data that needs to be aggregated sifted through things like that and then this concept of Taking now that I've got sort of my workload management and identity problems solved now How can I add some business logic? or policy-driven Workload management into a system right so this is the idea of a rules engine That can talk to this Federation service potentially a Federation service layer But the idea of workload management that's that's a part of this this Federation So let's let's jump into sort of how far we've gotten like I mentioned we've been doing this for about a month and and four days Since our developers started so we have gotten the the the private cloud Test environment stood up in terms of identity We've already had some really good early discussions With some folks listed here from IBM University of Kent and and Red Hat In sort of collaborating on the right ways to do this We've got alignment around what some of the key requirements are we've been through five or six Markdowns on those blueprints In terms of identity We've outlined some initial development work to be done And and we're right at the point of starting to do some of that that code development Around these two initial use cases, right? So the first one is after I authenticate against a local CERN keystone service. I receive a token I can then use it On the racks based private cloud And Then the second one would be Despite having an account at CERN. I want to explicitly authenticate against the racks based private cloud keystone claiming that it's trusted It is a trusted CERN identity provider who can authenticate me, right? So these are we're taking very small steps Towards a fully Interoperating Federation or identity service layer So next steps obviously continue what we're doing with identity In terms of service catalog and images We're starting discussions now about Sort of gathering input and what some ideas are To really figure out what the next steps are and then some some very early thoughts in this It's really been I think a positive thing after four weeks We've made some meaningful progress in terms of community discussion leading up to this conference There's a couple of developer sessions tomorrow, which I've got the details on at the end of the the presentation Where we're going to be discussing Federation within Keystone And I think that shows that there's really kind of the right timing for this with version three of Keystone Coming out and some previous work done in OAuth This really feels like the right time where There's a use case for this and there's folks that are able to contribute and get involved in a meaningful way So Why is Rackspace involved in this right obviously we're committed to open stack But I also just wanted to point out that this is really key to to our mission as a Service provider as well. This is sort of our high-level strategy and this isn't a corporate presentation But I'm using this slide to point out The first two items here Fit very squarely into this project, right? We're about open stack and furthering the adoption of cloud and open stack as a standard We feel like the whole community wins When that happens and that hybrid cloud is really Something where we seek to differentiate as a company The ability to federate multiple open stack clouds obviously plays into that strategy as well, so There's obviously a good commitment from us because this fits strategically with what we do And in terms of hybrid cloud this is Sort of becoming a buzzword you guys probably don't need this slide But but the analysts out there also agree that the time is is right for hybrid cloud, right? So we've got some quotes here from Forrester and Gardner and these aren't specific to Rackspace, but The idea that Users will be using multiple services from clouds. This could be SAS and IS or you know multiple SAS providers It's not just I ask but that this is the reality and this is the reality for some time to come So we feel that if we can really make open stack work together in a meaningful way in a federated way That adds tremendous value To the community to users of open stack So what can you do? You'd like to get involved in the discussion. You're at the right place, right? So There'll be lots more conversations this week. I've got a slide That has the details of some of the Keystone sessions coming up More more will follow with within Glantz and and the Nova services in the months to come I imagine I Just encourage you to be involved in the conversation Sort of the beauty of of having this be an open-source project, right? Everyone can contribute as much as they'd like to you. So we encourage you to do that the more ideas we get The better the the results will be for sure and We do have some time for questions so Fire away, and I'll leave it with this. These are the The sessions that I'm aware of there may be some others that focus in on Keystone in particular and these are the design sessions. So if you are a developer or contributing These are certainly things that that you'd want to potentially attend Yes, so sort of the time to live on the token from a security standpoint So my understanding is that as part of this work that's currently being discussed Then the time to live is one of the factors that are included in that So that yes, there is a risk. There is equally a risk in the non federated scenarios Also, and you ought to be able to tune that risk according to who you're working with The question was what other clouds would we integrate between CERN and rack space? Really, we're trying to to demonstrate Interoperability between any number of those permutations. So Currently what we have access to are The the open stack cloud that CERN Operates the one that we built there that that we sort of managed for them and then the rack space public cloud But equally there would be additional open-stat clouds that are managed by some of those tier one and tier two providers within the CERN network and Ideally if this becomes sort of part of future versions of Keystone and other services This would would work anyone anywhere that that opensack is wrong So this is the beauty of contributing upstream Within the open blueprint process, which is that as this goes up and then trickles down Then this will become available for any cloud provider using open stack who wish to take advantage of this So amongst that all the other high geophysics sites, for example, that are currently collaborating with us in the back So I think it is an important distinction between the open lab environment, which is a research collaboration between companies and CERN and CERN's public procurement model Which is a completely separated discussion? So CERN and rack space found we had common interests in this area and open lab provides a framework under which We explore those common interests However, at such time as CERN would be going out to for example look at public cloud procurement Then that will be done through the CERN procurement rules Which would follow the standard rules of public organizations and competitive tender So in this case rack space and CERN found such commonalities that we agreed to get going with the research project Hello So in SNEA or the SDC there was a cloud federation related presentation Are you also looking something similar with regards to maybe Swift and the objects store a federation Which would move objects from one cloud to another I think given that we've got the one year It's already quite ambitious to do the things that we plan on doing I think what it's useful in going through the Keystone structure first is that by doing that We potentially enable people with other use cases to take advantage of these small steps that we're doing And as I say with it being something being done through the open blueprint process Then as with other things in the community people can identify things that we haven't got within our plan of work And potentially contribute those also to the other projects Thanks So there's nothing here that would preclude you doing it with Swift But currently if we look at what we have is primarily focused on Keystone followed by Glance and a potentially followed by Compute and metering if we get that So initially when the grid model was conceived the thought was that the network would actually be the biggest problem network reliability network limitations in reality, it's been probably one of the most stable and open environments Issues such as the effort it requires to run a site software maintenance If you can imagine deploying a new version of software across 200 sites involves a lot of conference calls and So these things are becoming more of the major issues around growing which means moving to a model of independent sites Collaborating rather than a hierarchical structure is looking a lot more attractive in terms of the long-term sustainability So I think we're flattening the hierarchy in those terms even within the grid environment. It is already flattening somewhat together in terms of the authentication model changing I think from from CERN's use case it would it would be taking the active directory environment that they already manage and having that propagate I Imagine this propagates already through the grid system. Yeah, so it's it's From the user experience it wouldn't necessarily change the software that's managing that that identity Which would over time migrate to open stack and it's probably worth noting that more and really what? I think Tim had a really good point And as part of the talk about how The grid system and the cloud system aren't necessarily competitive. They are fairly complementary I think the goal one of the goals of this that it represents for CERN is the ability to to step back more and more over time from managing all that code themselves to more of a standard open stack based solution and so as we start to Enhance some of these features around Federation with an open stack they can start to peel those back from the grid system, right? So starting with authentication, but I talked about this idea of sort of workload intelligent workload management Well, that's something that's managed on an experiment by experiment basis within those portals and frameworks And so developing an open system to do that would would allow CERN to focus a lot Fewer resources on managing Individual experiment code and turn that over to to open stack to do so that's really kind of a higher level Explanation of how this evolves over time. Yes, right Okay, so in terms of how would the images be kept consistent I think that one of the aspects of doing these small steps that we're doing at the moment which is working through the identity federation questions and going on to the image Side of things is that the aim will be to then be floating some ideas of how this could be done for the image management It's not clear for example if its best thing to do is to have The replication of images across the various different glances or if the best thing to do is to be replicating pointers to To a remote glance. This is the kind of thing that we want to be working through with the community to work out the alternative approaches So I think what was the second question it was on Right so Right on the keystone side I believe that the model is one largely of a trust structure where you define a combination of attributes associated with an identity and Then a remote cloud can trust Identities that match that But probably if you want details on that they design summit sessions are the ones to come along to I would say from a private cloud to a public cloud Context which is a likely use case here probably the the private cloud identity service would be the trusted source And they would have an account with a public hub provider, but then that credential would then Be used within the public well that the how like like we mentioned the how hasn't quite been solved yet Other than they would both be keystone within this context But how that works we've written the stories for What it should look like, but the how is really what's being worked out right now, so we are at time Thank you for your questions. 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Today we go back in time to 2002 What's up guys we're back with another old-school yugioh opening, but it's not just an old-school yugioh opening We are also opening their reprint counterpart So we have not only magic ruler packs But also the spell ruler reprints and many other reprints and other old packs We're gonna be pitting them against each other old versus reprint to see which will be better in this video But before we do that I have a giveaway I'll be giving away some old-school cards We have a metal raider's time wizard We have a marauding captain like sea of darkness and a thousand eyes restrict first edition from pharaoh's servant Just like the video be subscribed turn on notifications and let me know what you think will win will be old school Will the reprints pull it out this time? They do have these bonus cards. Hey, they could have a go-sher I'm just saying it could happen. 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Alright, so let's start it off with the reprint side because you know They're a little bit less anticipated. They are the reprints. They're not as exciting as the old school 2002 packs There's also some packs from the old school that are not from 2002 Just keep that in mind, but there are a lot of magic rules today. What else do we have? Oh, we got a legendary six Sam. What is it? It's the Shanae Okay, we've got a weather painter rain and then a telekinetic shocker from the Duals Genesis is not a new car It's a pretty old one make a bunny my protector and medium piece go home And then we of course have our dark crisis pack We got to open those up just in case there is that galaxy as opposed to an unlimited ghost rare like I got back in 2018 Probably not gonna happen again I was probably a once in my lifetime kind of thing But I still hold out hope that it'll happen again dark crisis Let's see. Can they potentially beat the old school packs? It's possible because reprints, you know Let's likely to have had been tampered with weighed anything like that Kildo gonna play a shizu just kidding That's the the old version DD trainer. We have rata size kist That's a ruckson special with gorg the incandescent ordeal the more L straight way moral boost. I was gonna see strength I don't know why let's do a flame Lord and Despair from the dark just starting it off with a rare no big deal But yeah, I'm gonna be strump stumbling all over the place like I do at the beginning of videos Just get used to it guys It's just the normal thing around here on ruckson 34. All right first old pack with cyber dark impact We like wait, this isn't 2002 pack. It is not it's a 2006 pack I believe but inside we could pull some pretty amazing ultimate rares vanities fiend vanities ruler I'm assuming that these are retail actually don't know that didn't double check the code But it's almost always retail when you open this stuff So I'm gonna assume that's what it is various touch of the torrent We have a linear accelerator cannon the abaki a very very creepy looking dude. Just check them out Very creepy. We have chain detonation for those those chain players and don't do it straight as money with instant fusion A great card. I mean, this is the original print of that card the man beast of Aries Humiliated fortune will we get a foil in this pack? Oh? An ultra rare cyber ogre, too. We will get a foil ultra is a 1 in 24 packs So getting an ultra is actually pretty rare these old school packs versus now like 1 in 4 1 in 6 Whatever it is. So yeah, that's that's a nice pull for the old school. All right next up dark crisis We have a few dark crisis and then we get into some variety of like pharaohs serving and stuff like that as well In the old school. So we have a power waltz ultra rare clear fact This is obviously from dual saga the ultra rare technology that they They branded it as and it wasn't really that good. We have backup soldier from what is that a starter deck back in the day? bamboo straps and got her damn her own that is from what is that? Oh, what's it called the one with Odin? It's called a storm arachnara. Yeah, that's what that's from. I remember that one specifically Let's do a little swappy swap.  All right next up. We have a magic ruler original print pack Yeah, this is I mean you can check out the logo right there old school 2002 packs So yeah when I said 2002 I wasn't lying guys, okay It is 2002 over 20 years at this point. We are past 20 years Which is insane that means we're getting old just keep that in mind if you guys remember these back in the day You're officially old. It's like some of the cards are dinged up on here We have mechanical snail not good centering there slot machine. Where's this little brother? There he is little brother We have a labyrinth wall ding there. Okay, Moevo and Nuzla ancient one of the deep forest firecrackin we have the dark witch very nice and we have a Mangorai ran so just a regular rare that magic ruler pack. That's okay. We have more cool stuff coming up We also have more magic rulers. So hopefully the next ones will be better dark crisis We have another one of these so we're gonna start off hot with dark crisis See we can pull anything out of there and then we'll pull into some other reprint packs So we have a rainbow or fraction and emergence emerging emergency rescue Rabbit okay, very cool lucky punch damage mage Oh fairytale Rella and that is about it nothing too crazy in those we do have our dark crisis pack Which is over to so far. So let's see if dark crisis can turn it around and pull something good one two three four Let's go reprints. Can you pull something if you're reading for the reprints? Let me know in the comments dice reroll twin swords You have a spell reproduction the shinados arc Archvene's oath shooting star burrow seal So say we got the fear up from the dark and we have eggs already net cross come on Oh a mudura, so there is a foil there a fairy type type isn't that Pokemon But I guess technically it's called type but fairy type just sounds like Pokemon Okay, not bad. We'll take a foil. That is the first one from the old school packs Now let's try first edition of force of the breaker from the old pack I'd say old school. I'm in reprint packs because these are the old school packs They're old school reprint packs I guess on the other side basically everything's old school, which is why I know you guys are gonna like this video One two three, I don't remember if it's for I'm gonna do three We have the crystal beast ruby carbuncle. This is the newest pack we have from the old school It's 2007 crystal promise the volcanic scatter shot crystal abundance hard-selling goblin We have the zombie in here somewhere We recently did a box break of this live so go check that out We should also have a potentially enemy of justice box live right now if it hasn't sold out So go check that out on ruxa 34 comm crystal beacon. We have volcanic shell. That's just a rare. Wait Do you get a do you get a foil as well? No, no, you don't okay volcanic shell All right, just a rare unfortunately, okay time to switch it up with a spell ruler pack Let's not do dark crisis this time spell ruler. We've already opened magic ruler now. We have spell ruler Let's see what we can pull. We have jerak spinnose very nice in arsenal 3 Gen X recycle That's a couple foils right there But not great foils in terms of what you're actually looking for metal more for a while to guess rare metal Or way whoa sardic Yugi guy the fierce night. That's a 2004 card So almost 20 year old card right there. It's just a common. That's probably not really worth anything Alright spell ruler. Can you bless us with the blue eyes toon dragon? Let's go one two three four You gotta believe it will it have the toon dragon We will have the Igaboon eating a rat very nice penguin night eternal rats with dark mall Darth Ball not dark ball forms of the sword whippetail crow the reliable guardian guarding the throne room Hero shadow scout will it be the blue eyes to dragon relinquish something like that? Let's go I'm Sargaban a good common, but not a foil unfortunately So this one could be a dollar could be worth something for our value you'll have to see you know when it pops over the screen already It's already happened. Okay, let's just move on. All right It is time for a legacy of darkness unlimited pack inside. We could pull either yada or injected fairly It's one of the two. I don't know if it's retailer hobby, but I would take either one of those gladly I would be very happy one two three four Let's see if we can pull them now that we can be the giant dragon the drip Oh another dragon the manipulator life absorbing machine the another manipulator. Okay, he's manipulating this pack troop dragon There's dragons everywhere. We got the feng shing mirror patrician of darkness a faint plan It's it's faint, but it's there and a ray of revealing lights So the faint plan revealing light not working out so well for that pack back to our good friend the dark crisis pack Will there be something big inside? Oh, we've got a proxy dragon I always used to think this was worth something when I was going through my bulk and I'd look and I was worth like 50 cents and I was like never mind now worth anything She know bird destiny and dragon is a common shining angel. It's an old school card All right, it's nothing crazy there onto the dark crisis so far We've pulled one foil out of all these three print packs and it's a super emidora. So wasn't that insane? We're really looking for a little bit better than that if we could possibly do that We have a fairy of the spring final countdown. We got cyber raider Deser Garchvain the assessor's a dog. I'm black. Let's go. Tetsu pandemonium watchbear look a blanking fan more by the law and a Dark master Zork. We have another foil. It's just a super But this is probably a fan favorite. I would say from dark crisis a pretty nice very Like scary-looking artwork. I mean he reminds me of like an old-school anime. That is very cool It's a nice pull. I don't know if it's a dollar probably not but still really nice All right back to the old-school. We have magic ruler magique ruler. Here we go We have tyhone at numero dose the electric snack Manar Jigan Bakadun. He's a bomb mystic plasma zone. That is an electric light bolt lightning bolt There we go light bolt whip-toe crow performance of sword giant turtle who feeds on flames very beautiful and a Ooh an invader of the throne. There we go. It's another hollow. Is that our first old-school? Oh, no, wait, we got one other way. Yeah, cyber ogre 2 from cyber dark and back our first one from magic ruler invader of the Throne very cool super rare. It looks pretty. Okay, not bad. Okay dark crisis Let's see what you could do after this. We will have another non dark crisis pack We have a lot of dark crisis remaining so we are opening a few of those We have a couple of foils there nothing crazy any of the hollows benton was good for a while We've got my old Magispector crow yada and the skull knife for metal raiders. That's a reprint version But still that's pretty cool to see the skull night from metal raiders very amazing artwork on that one dark crisis time Let's see what you can do one two three four no skill drain yet. No sukiyomi in the rare slots We've got shenados arc arch fiends oath shooting star bow seal They're really eternal rest no Darth Maul now when we got the morale boost Incandescent ordeal final attack orders pretty annoying card legendary flame lord always makes you think it's something good because it's a Ritual but it's not and finally we have a Despair from the dark. I'm despairing because of no hollow Okay back to the original oji magic ruler will there be a blue-eyes tuned dragon pulled in this video I am hoping so guys. I don't know about you. This could be amazing once you three four It's been a long time since we pulled one even out of a reprint pack So it'd be great darkness approach. We got koto dama I mean we do have the og stuff coming up You know the reprints coming out in April which by the time you see this it's almost April like a month away It's really exciting oto bursar got the hungry burger support coming soon So this might actually be worth something I'm gonna pull it out I know the first day was like seven bucks dark witch. You got curse of fiend Crab turtle snake fang isn't the next card will it be a blue-eyes tuned dragon? We have a Hero shadow scout that is not a blue-eyes tuned dragon. I was letting you guys know not sure if you've seen one before But certainly not that guy. All right pharaohs servant time will we pull the gym so first Let's see if we get a ghost or out of these real quick no ghost sure at the front not a good start We got the lila. Okay a couple of super rears nothing too crazy be the soldier IV shaggle trap eater Yeah, a lot of raging battle cards in crimson or crimson crisis I should say maybe I thought this was raging battle for some reason crimson crisis got him confused But they're both old school. I mean they're five days, but now that's kind of old school at this point All right, pharaohs servant. Do you feel old yet that five days is old school? Let me know in the comments one two three four here. We go pharaohs servant will we pull a Vigenza we have bubonic vermin regulation of the tribe Giant soldier the DNA surgery spike bot light of intervention burning land high a boost at night And finally will it be a foil and will it be a Jinzo? Let's go Thousand eyes I think is actually might be worth a dollar ironically But I don't think it's a foil that well. I know it's not a foil actually looking at it Certainly not it's a common. All right. It's time for power of the duelist. This is a first edition pack So inside you could pull some pretty amazing ultimate rears So looking for that chimera tech over dragon ultimate rare that I have not pulled for myself We did pull it one time on a one-knots stream. That was it one two three four. Let's go We have common soul royal writ of taxation saber source alien skull crystals dolphin the black terra flying saucer We have the paths of destiny and finally will it be an ultimate rare here we go Alien warrior that's a rare it does come an ultimate not here so I'm unfortunate, but still a nice card All right back to our dark crisis friends. Will we pull something epic out of this pack? It's been a kind of a slower opening We've had a couple of good pulls but nothing like crazy yet a couple of supers there and then anything interesting in the commons Not seeing too much cyber dragon. It's interesting. It's not really valuable, but pretty cool. All right dark crisis Here we go. What will we pull one two three four? Will it be skilled rain? Will it be sukiyomi in the rare slot and then an exodia necrosse? We'll have to find out right now. Maybe a vampire lord's secret rare would be nice Yeah, growl. We got irrational summoner. We got the frozen soul. We got the acrobat monkey the okay not a good rare again, and we have a Pandemonium it's pandemonium where the foils all right unfortunately the pandemonium is continuing I think we've pulled all supers so far for actual foils, so we're looking for Something above a super didn't this thing off. Wow these cards are a little banged up check that out Wow that that back card took a beating one two three four Hopefully the middle card is safe the rare right you ran the egg This is always a classic for me I just remember being like wow that's cool looking card is an egg dragon libel guardian We have a music technically a dragon. He is spear credin the weather reports peacock very very cool name original We have the wall shadow stone ogre grotto Gaia power and finally will it be the tune dragon. Let's go. Oh But it is a foils not the tune dragon, but it is banisher of the light another foil to go along with you know Our super rare brigade that we've had so far today three packs left on each side here We go into pharaoh's servant will there be a genzo inside so first we have a Rainbow dart dragon then we have a pyrex the elemental lord. That's a ultra rare very cool So every samurai neck row and wonder balloons nothing too crazy there now. We have our pharaoh's servant pack What will we get one two three four will it be thousand eyes genzo buster blader something amazing like that We have a spike bot. Let's get an ultra rare or above armor glass flying comic curing numero dose For star ready but ladybug of doom insect imitation DNA surgery a red moon, baby, and here we go You got to believe in something big Sword hunter me it's pretty big 2450 attack not bad, but he is not a foil unfortunately So I gotta keep hoping fat ultra rare plus all right magic ruler again We've had a lot of magic ruler today. It's been only super rare's and rare's so far Let's see if we can get a secret one ultra one two three four spear credin weather report the upstart goblin original print That's probably worth a like a rounded dollar. We've got ceremonial bell angel one of the deep forest fire crackin the dark witch Crab turtle and finally what do we have it is? Shining angel just the angel he's shining all around, but he's not a foil So he's really not shining at all actually all right two packs left one dark crisis And then we have a metal wagers pack send it off for the reference. Let's see what we can get out of here I can't get through this pack. We have wind up. Oh, whoa Okay, that might be worse something a zen maester and then they rise a dude if we had pulled this one This was a 70 dollar card. It's like 40 cents now But it didn't it got a repair from ghost of the past before that this card got up to 70 bucks for the Duals alliance print. So this is probably like a 50 dollar card from mega pack 15. Wow. That's insane That would have been worth a lot. All right dark crisis. This is your time You've been a little lackluster so far, but this last pack can save everything right here You gotta believe we have a gaga gigo Fairy of the spring spell reproduction battle scarred. We got the acrobat monkey dd trainer dark scorpion chick the yellow Mephithian furl general. Oh, man. I really messed that one up and we have Oh Final dark crisis pack that is the way to end those dark crisis packs Really didn't have anything great. We finally hit that above super rare pole vampire lord I think as a reprints not worth a ton, but still a really cool nostalgic card It's actually pretty strong back in the day. Nice pull finally All right two old school packs left Can they match that with a secret wrap their own legacy of darkness? This would be a huge one to match with yada injection fairy lily you guys You know one of you guys one two three four would be an epic pull We have robotic knife. He's robotic. He's an eye double snare. We got the soul demolition The molded of nature the spring of rebirth maharagi short print throw stone unit. We have is this the next one? It may be the foil It's not the next one super oboyaru and Oh fusion sword mursame blade just a rare no big deal because we have two packs left and they're both gonna be epic All right metal raiders. Here it is. We we got a vampire lord last time Let's see if you can add on to that. Let's get a gate guardian Oh, hello. Where's our where's our where's our our foils? Hello Hello, no foils extra cards. We've got gypped. There's only eight cards in here. No, not our extra foils All right, so that's unfortunate, but maybe that means there's extra foils in here It's gonna be three foils in this pack metal raiders.  You know any of that skull might we saw that guy earlier. We've got the insect We've got the jellyfish wild battle guard canyon moth. Maybe soggy the dark clown angel lizard warrior Empress judge the magician of faith a great rare next card will be potentially a foil. Here we go That's two reprints both had secret rares inside No Hey The reprint side is coming on strong to try and win this one thousand dragon vampire lord I know they're not crazy valuable in reprint, but two secret rare pulls. That's pretty amazing. All right old school You might be in trouble now. We have a magic ruler pack I don't know who's going to win this one at this point might need to pull the blue eyes tune dragon We pull two secret rares out of our last three packs So let's see if we can go three for four here and pull a blue eyes tune dragon One two three four final pack of the opening if you guys have enjoyed it Make sure to subscribe to the channel for more content like this. Here we go Twin long rods. You've got mechanical snail Chorus of sanctuary the guardian of the throne room Pin not pendulum. No pendulum yet guys. No pendulum giant sort of who feeds on flames. Got the magical labyrinth Dark zebra final card right here. Will it be the blue eyes tune dragon? Let me know in the comments. Here we go A mystic tomato and yeah, there it is. 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Welcome you all for this program. Today, we have with us Dr. Nikhil Agarwal, the CEO of Startup Incubation and Innovation Center, an organization mandated to encourage and facilitate startups and innovation in the country. Dr. Agarwal holds his PhD in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Dr. Agarwal is a renowned expert in innovation and entrepreneurship and his vision is to create an environment that supports, encourages and facilitates innovation and entrepreneurship. Let us hear from the expert. Welcome you Dr. Agarwal for this program. We want to understand from you how did you start this journey and what made you to land in the space of incubation and innovation. Now, that is a very interesting question because when I was in college and I didn't knew anything about entrepreneurship, innovation and I thought that I should start something. So, some of our college dorm mates, we started a company called Prakrati Communication and the company did very well in six months time. The only challenge was I have flunked one of my exams and my father called me if you close the company or otherwise you are out of the college. So, that was my first tirest with entrepreneurship. But going forward, I started teaching and working in area of entrepreneurship for many years. In 2008, we raised almost 8 million dollars as a part, I was part of the private group in Pune. We raised 8 million dollars from Helion Ventures from Intel Capital, then 2 million dollars further from Cisco to set up a company. Then I was the president of a large consulting firm in United Kingdom a few years. And in 2015, when I came back to India, I was recruited by Andhra Pradesh government to become the CEO for Innovation Society. We were the first state to set up our own incubator innovation ecosystem and we have come up with a state innovation and startup policy. And that was further inspired by a lot of other states. Andhra was the first one. In 2019, I joined IIT Kanpur and you will be very glad to know that today we are the largest incubator in the country. So, you are doing a wonderful job there. We had lot of startups have been incubated and you have been hand holding in the startups to the journey of incubation and innovation ecosystem there. That is what we understood there. I also want to understand how this startup incubation and innovation center makes better and how did, what was the objective of this startup incubation and innovation center of IIT Kanpur? So, we started in near to around 2000. So, there was some money was given by CIDB and the UP government to set up this SISC. At that time, it was known as CIDB Innovation and Incubation Center because the primary funding come from CIDB. However, over a period of time, we started calling SISC. We are indeed very thankful and indebted to CIDB for considering innovation, promotion of innovation 20 years back when nobody was talking about it. But center has done quite phenomenally well. So, initially idea was to commercialize the institute technologies. So, I will tell you the real challenge in India. So, we fund lot of research to the professors and to the labs in various colleges across the country. However, these outstanding research never see a day of light. They after few years of funding, when the funding runs out, maybe a patent is filed or something, but the research die down or the product die down inside the lab and the new product come new research comes, professors get busy somewhere else. So, the technology transfer problem is already there. So, number of American and Western universities, you see there is a TTO office, technology transfer office which is there. So, initially the focus of SISC was to promote institute research and help them in commercializing it. But going forward now, we are an inclusive incubator because we are also a national institution. So, we cannot limit our incubator only for the internal people. Today, we have now 30-35% of the companies which we have are by IITans including IIT Kanpur or other IITs 65% of our companies are from outside. So, we allow everyone who can think, who can innovate, who have some new idea and whom we can help. They can apply to us and they are welcome to join the journey. So, the focus today of the incubator is to not only commercialize and promote the technologies of IIT Kanpur, but also bring in the other people who need our help whom we can work together in solving the technological problem, solving the social problem. We come within some of the ideas, for example, technology for social good. Like how the social problem public infrastructure issues can be solved through technology and innovation. So, that way that is the reason we have become little wider in our scope today. So, what have been the most notable achievement of SIIC and how did you achieve this? So, SIIC has been working in various domains for a few years. So, one of the notable achievement was that there is a company called Curadev which was in cancer drug. So, they that company was eventually acquired by Rosh Pharmaceutical for almost $5 million. So, that was one of the I would say biggest success of institute, you know, incubators in the country that happened in India 2012. But recently, there was a during the COVID time particularly, we contributed a lot for indigenization and development of our own technologies. Like in fact, I still remember Prime Minister talked about the at Nipur Bharat and Self-Reliant India. At that time, nobody was understanding this that why we need to be self-reliant. But during the COVID time, we realized that nobody is going to help us out. We have to help ourselves. Just to give you couple of examples here. In 2020, there was a newspaper report came that there are more than 200,000 ventilators needed. At that time, India was having less than 10,000 ventilators. How do you fulfill that requirement? We Indian government wrote to several countries that please provide us in ventilators. And I remember one of the newspaper report that the US gave us only 100 ventilators. Okay. Requirement is 200,000 because their challenges are there. So, Samsung, Philips or Siemens, they are all foreign companies and they have to first fulfill their own country requirement than giving it to elsewhere. So, we said we have to do something. So, we created task force. Within 60 days time, we created a ventilator. In 90 days time, there was a live patient on the ventilator. Today, we have sold thousands of ventilators, hundreds of thousands of patients have gone through and touch wood. Everybody is okay. Everybody is recovered, which is very good news. Same way, we worked on several other technologies. Like there is a nanotechnology by using nanotechnology, we come up with a swassa mask, which can block 95% of the aerosol virus. It is indigenous technology invented at IIT Kanpur by inventor called Sandeep Patil. And you will be, and I am sure you must be aware that this mask become the sort of official mask for government of India. Okay. Even for the entire parliamentarian, they used to wear the mask. So, that way we have come with a number of, like in the second wave, there was a requirement for oxygen concentrator, oxygen plant. So, some of our innovators work on those things. And now, going forward, we are working on number of technologies. Some of our focus area is cyber security. So, we have the largest cyber security cohort in the country, close to 50 companies today are working on cyber security. Okay, 50, that's a great sign. Threat intelligence, VAPT, hardware, legacy. You name it and we work in most of the cyber security areas. Similarly, the UP government has given us a Center for Artificial Intelligence. So, we have set up a Center for Artificial Intelligence in our Noida campus. We have now close to 53 companies which have graduated and new 25 more companies are coming in. So, number of areas that we have interest not only in a specific area, because we have now large incubator. So, we try to take advantage of our IIT Kanpur strength, our students and our faculty members and come up with a new areas of innovation. Okay, since you have watched so many new product in the emerging areas and current needs from you as head of an incubation, want to understand what is essential to have a successful incubation or innovation ecosystem. So, the first is the selection of the incubate, incubate. So, you need to have, see, a lot of people want to do a startup because everybody else is doing the startup, but that should not be the case. Other people want to get into startup that they want to make quick money. Again, I should warn those people they should not come to the startup domain, because that brings a bad name to the people. I want to do something. I want to make quick money. I want to make exit. This is not the correct way. Okay. The first and foremost characteristic of innovator is he is a problem solver. Okay. He identify a problem. He is willing to solve that problem. He is willing to devote his time, energy, money, sweat. Okay. Not only his purpose for investors and others. And you want to devote his significant time or a half or some part of his life in solving the problem. If he is able to do that, he will be a successful entrepreneur. Money will follow, investment will follow, customer will follow, everybody will follow. Okay. But if your basic objective is to make money, then startup is not a area to come in. Okay. So, first and foremost thing is that. Second is proper mentorship and technology support is needed. So, incidentally, institutions like us, we have great labs. Like, we have bio lab, we have flexronics lab, we have mechanical labs, we have energy labs. So, number of labs are there. So, as a young entrepreneur, somebody is coming in, if you want to do something in hardcore technology, he can find access to those labs. That's very important. Very important. Because to have any solution to be given. The infrastructure is very important. Yes. So, the labs and the hardware for them to develop it and the support system is very important. And then we, our professors are very enthusiastic. Okay. Normally, what we do is such kind of problem needs to be solved. We find a faculty mentor, one faculty mentor or two faculty member and engage that innovator with that person. That you work with them and try to solve a problem. The way is that, first of all, he gets access to the knowledge and expertise of a professor. He gets access to the students of a professor who is doing PhDs or MTAX or, you know, research work. And the third is that he will have access to the labs in solving those issues. So, number of ideas which our people are working today. Like, for example, there is a very famous company now in India. It's called Pool. We just come up with the incense sticks, Agrabati, from the waste flowers. Yes. Now, certainly that is becoming a great product. But what they are more known for, will be known for and what we are excited about. They have come with a flower-based leather. Leather. Okay. It's called leather. Okay. It's completely sustainable, completely made from flower waste. Okay. Like, waste flower, which were thrown away into the Ganges. They collected the flower and they use this making the leather. And it is no animalism harmed in this. Recently, they have done a tie-up with Tommy Hilfiger. Okay. And they will be making wallets out of this leather in Kanpur. Okay. So, Kanpur is known for its animal leather. But now I am sure in the future, because of our association with Pool and IIT Kanpur, Kanpur will be known for leather. Okay. So, same way, there is a flower-based styrofoam. Okay. Styrofoam is again one of the most biodegradable products. It takes 1000 years, that has been told for a thermocol to decompose. Yes. But now the flower-based thermocol, which is there, it can be decomposed quite quickly. Yeah. So, those kind of technologies that we are working on, one of the work we did it from engineering perspective, we implemented a CNG filling station in Kyrgya Ghat in Banaras. Okay. So, there are only four companies in the world which can do this kind of stable jetties, which can take a load or even the high tide, low tide floods that jetties does not move to remain stable. Okay. And CNG requires a continuous pipeline, where the gas should come into the pump station and boats can get the filling. Done. Okay. So, it has to be stable. It cannot be like moving, there is no storage of CNG happening in the jetty. And it is highly unstable environment in terms of accidents and all. So, jetty has to become stable. So, that kind of engineering has been done by our company called Aquafront Infrastructure. Okay. And in fact, the honorable Prime Minister spoke about that company twice in two different forums. Okay. So, that kind of like unsolvable problems we are trying to solve. Yeah. So, I want your suggestion and view on how the tier 2, tier 3 students or startups which is being located and who can be the right set of mentors to them. Can you guide on that? So, particularly for the UP government, what we have done at IAP and we have committed there that we are mentoring all the 13 RECs. So, RECs is Rajki Engineering colleges. In fact, one of the oldest institution in the country is HBTU. Okay. Kanpur, we are mentoring HBTU in starting the incubation activity. Outside the state, we are working with MIT in Gwalior, one engineering college in Vedisha, whoever approaches, whoever approaches number of private colleges also. Recently, there is a institution in Gazebath, IMT Gazebath, they ask us to help them in starting the incubator. Okay. So, what we have done over a period of time, our policies and structures have stabilized. Okay. For example, HR policy, how do you hire people? For example, the faculty entrepreneurship policy, how the IIT has implemented student entrepreneurship policy. Recently, we are also rolling out the staff entrepreneurship policy. Okay. When the staff can start their own companies. So, number of institutions was to learn about that how IIT Kanpur has implemented these policies. So, we provide help to them. Second, the lab infrastructure, there is a specific request come in to use our lab infrastructure or there is user. So, we have a something called a co-incubation agreement. Okay. So, let us say there is an outstanding company which is with any of the college in Delhi or Punjab or anywhere and they want to access our infrastructure. We evaluate that company. If we feel that the company is interesting and we can really work with that company, we co-incubate with them. Okay. So, there is a co-incubation agreement also exists with number of institution that provide an access to the lab infrastructure and for technology. Okay. The third thing we can also do is like if there is a specific request coming in for the problem of national importance. Okay. Something has been solved like in medical field or in defense field and the approaches, they write a letter to us or to director IIT Kanpur that this is what is been there and we evaluate that this particular problem is a national importance which need to be, which need our support. So, without our own vested interest, we support them. So, idea of the incubator is to promote innovation ecosystem across, not only the state of Uttar Pradesh but across India. We are a national institution. Yes. We like that this problem to be solved and rather than importing the innovation from outside, we should start developing our own innovative products and we can export them to the countries which were earlier importing this. So, that is the like I would say the gist of and our motivation. Yeah. That is very good sir, like an institute of national importance and having an incubation center within the campus, supporting the students within the state and beyond the state. If you say like students who is there in say like Tamil Nadu, he wants to have an incubation or a startup to be incubated at your center, how do you hand hold them and to be a successful startup? So, companies can come anywhere. So, the only since we are also custodian of government funds, we cannot incubate companies which are incorporated outside of the country. We can incubate any company in corporate India. There has to be at least one founder should be a majority founder should be Indian. That is must. So, there is various ways of working like we encourage companies to come to the campus and we provide them accommodation. It is extremely subsidized cost. We provide them office and you will be very glad to know the rights of the incubator incubating is similar to the rights of professor of IIT Kanpur. That is great. So, for example, if let us say if I am a professor of electrical engineering, I have to access the computer science lab. So, the way I access the lab, same way the incubator or incubating and also access that lab. That is fantastic. So, that is advantage. So, the company which is like say Tamil Nadu wants to incubate with us, most likely they are looking for tech support or kind of mentorship support.  If you cannot come here permanently, keep on visiting us, maybe 10, 15 days, 20 days, we will provide you access.  We can keep on providing you investment support, mentorship support. The another advantage of IIT Kanpur is that now we have a campus in Noida. So, the companies which does not need active lab support, we ask them to shift to Noida so that they can have a business connect through our Noida campus. So, Center for Artificial Intelligence is also set up in Noida. So, there are companies which are co-located there, at least for the UP based company which are incorporated. So, Center for AI, they can access anytime. So, now India has emerged as third largest ecosystem in startup globally. So, what do you think it has been contributed to this phenomenal growth of our country? I think Indians are always known for their own innovation and curiosity. Unfortunately, we were doing all in Silicon Valley. Like some of the most smartest people who migrated to Silicon Valley and now they are running the large companies like Microsoft or who will be all know about it. But now the opportunity is so much in India, there are relatively less number of people going abroad. If you look at the whole NCR region, North India, Southern India, Western India, the quality of life has improved, the access to medical facility and other things have improved. So, people, so educated class are not going out. They want to do something for their own country. So, the feeling of patriotism is there and feeling of doing something here is there and third is the economy factor. See, the outside countries are growing only half a percent or one percent per year. India is going 7 percent a year. So, the growth factor what you have today here is unmatchable. So, for these kind of innovation ecosystem created in the country. So, when there are some traditional say like funding or ecosystem in our country like Atal Incubation Center, DST Technology Business Incubation Center, MSME Incubation Center. Beyond that, do you have any source of funding for the startups which would help them in making their startup more successful? Very important question particularly for the startups because number of startup and also incubators does not know about what is the funding opportunity which is coming in exclusively from the government and I will also talk about the private funding opportunities. So, from the government ecosystem if you look at most of the ministries are now having their own startup initiative like Ministry of Urban Affairs has initiative called Waste to Wealth, garbage facilities, waste to wow. So, they are putting they are supporting around last year they have supported around 25 companies this year they will be supporting around 45 companies who are willing to do waste aggregation solid waste management creating new kind of products from the waste and they are connecting these companies with urban local bodies across the country. Similarly, if you look at the disability, if you are a startup working in assistive technology for the blind, for the deaf, for the disabled people you can speak with the Ministry of Disability Affairs and they can they can help you in doing something. If you are an SCST startup then there is a separate fund Ambedkar scheme which is there exclusively meant for people from SCST class to get funding from them. If you are a woman entrepreneur there is a separate scheme for this then they what the government has started doing they have come with their own challenges like Ministry of Textiles come with them textile innovation challenge, Ministry of Fishery will come with a marine life challenge. So, those challenges are also there. So, then the principal scientific advisor office they have started working with number of CSR and corporate across the country. And if the CSR wants to donate the money to run a context or hackathon they normally to approach the PSA office PSA office then circulate it across the country. So, there is enough opportunity today. If you are a good quality startup most likely you will receive some kind of funding, initial funding from the government. So, you do not need to be from the business class anymore to start your business. So, that is the good news. So, you have asked a question earlier that how the India has become the third largest startup ecosystem this is one of the reason. In fact, I am thankful to the government in providing so many opportunities today to the people. If your intentions are right if you have control of your technology and if you are capable chances are that you will raise some startup seed fund whoever you are wherever you are it does not matter you can be in Gorakhpur or you can be in Noida that does not matter. You can raise funds from the government ecosystem number of private trades are also doing like SDFC banks, Citibank, IOC, EIL, ONGC they are also coming up with their own startup challenges and money either in the domain they work in or a generic domain. So, there is my suggestion to most of the innovators who are listening to this talk today if you work closely with any incubator nearer to your city where you live in they will receive this information and then you can make an application to receive the funding. Coming to your personal question to you, you are also the best selling author please tell us about your book the startup master plan that master plan will help many participants to become and you know successful entrepreneur or like you know master in their own startup or business what they are doing it right. So, in fact that master plan was written the plan was there in my head but it was not written because didn't get time. So, during the Covid lockdown we had some time so I have collaborated with my own son who was in 12th but he is an entrepreneur mindset. So, we start discussing with ever some time in the evening in the morning during the daytime we were all like try to solve the national problems and we wrote this book it was published by Business Express Press is a New York based publisher and incidentally that book has become number one in small business at least in Amazon. So, what we talked about is that how to build your business from scratch. So, it is sort of a guide and a bible for those who wants to start their own business. So, what are the pitfalls you can get into avoid those pitfalls what that we provide tricks of the trade you know. So, just to give you couple of insights like what the startups do. So, startup they they some many of the start does not get any guidance. So, what they do is they spend too much of time in building up their website they will spend serious time in changing their logos you know sometime I have seen like people are spending 4 to 6 months time in deciding the names and logos. But what we say is get into the business first you know the even the names like Haldiram also sells in India and sometime you name does not matter once the people start accepting you. Like yesterday I went to one place and there was a Kuremal Kulfiwala that is also selling like who will think that you will have a Kulfi from Kura you know jokes apart. But those names also sell companies should work on the customer acquisition should work on the legal side of it compliance has become extremely important activity from where to raise funds how to get mentorship how to get connected to the other people in the ecosystem that is more important to the books talks about the master plan that how you can launch your business in shortest period of time. And your chances of becoming successful becomes higher. Like you want an advice for you for this young entrepreneurs and startup I want your personal advice as in incubation head for an successful entrepreneur. See success will come if you are persistent you need to have patience and a persistence to become an entrepreneur. Like I remember I will give you a similar example when PV Sandhu won the medal incidentally I was in Hyderabad that time I was working for the government there and she gave an interview in the newspapers she said somebody asked that how you become overnight success. You won the medal and you become suddenly become celebrity he said but 12 years I woke up at 3.30 am in the morning and 4 o'clock 4.30 I used to be at the court I used to train for 8 hours for 12 years 365 days no Saturday no Sunday then I become overnight success. So if you have persistence if you have patience and you have a ability not to give up okay you will become successful you look at any top entrepreneurs today whether Dipendra Goyal whether Ritesh Agrawal whether it is Bansal whether it is Vishisheka Sharma they own if you start reading about their journey 10 years back they all new companies like 10 years back yes they have gone to the nadir they all pay income rise like a phoenix yes everybody has faced problems they have gone through the serious challenges funding problem customer problem regulatory issues or technology issues sometime it looks like that the company will be shut down and they have to go for a job yes but they again came back and now they are successful company. So pick up any example of successful startup there is a hardware there is a dedication there is a patience and the ability to continuously move on the positive mindset that is there and everything will follow people say investment and out of box it all will follow yes we have to stand we have to face yes so startup is also like fighting your own enemy which is there inside you is like I will not be fearful I will succeed I have taken this challenge of solving this problem I will solve this problem whatever it takes and once you do that then the whole world up praise you whole world will follow you and you will become successful yes I am sure with your dynamic leadership we may be or we will get many more products to the country for benefit of the society and also thanks for hand holding many startups and also you said like you have been extending the support not alone at within IIT Kanpur beyond that within UP beyond UP to all the states. Thank you Dr. Nikhil Agarwal for sparing your quality time and briefing about how the startup incubation and innovation center of IIT Kanpur is mentoring and helping the student innovators of our country and also briefing about the various funding opportunities available in the country for the students and innovators currently India is in 40th position in global innovation index in 2015 India was at 81st position this growth is consolidated effort of the researchers and innovators across the country when the national anthem of our country is played at any place we get goosebumps and excited that excitement should not stop there we all should contribute for the benefit of the country every individual contribution will make our country to stand in the better position in coming years. Thank you.