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Extremely Brief Guide To Grid

Extremely Brief Guide To Grid. What the Grid has to offer Social Science. …in four slides. Linking Data: understanding the past and looking into the future mike.jones@man.ac.uk Friday 7 th May 2004. Resource. PC à HPC Compute Resources: Desktop, Cluster, Supercomputer

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Extremely Brief Guide To Grid

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  1. Extremely Brief Guide To Grid What the Grid has to offer Social Science. …in four slides Linking Data: understanding the past and looking into the future mike.jones@man.ac.uk Friday 7th May 2004

  2. Resource • PC à HPC • Compute Resources: Desktop, Cluster, Supercomputer • Data Resources: Floppy, Disk, Tape; Files, Database • Network Resources: Dial-up, Wireless, LAN, WAN… • NGS – National Grid Service http://www.ngs.ac.uk • User Perspective • 4 JISC ‘Data Nodes’ + Two National Supercomputers (CSAR & HPCx) • Globus Toolkit 2, Oracle Database, Experimental OGSA-DAI Service • Direct Access to Data Nodes is Peer Reviewed (1-2 page scientific case) • CSAR/HPCx users can use the same case for access to the data nodes • Resource Perspective • More resources will be able to join in ~ 3 months • SLD containing: Availability, Middleware, Support (all TBC shortly) Supercomputing, Visualization & e-Science

  3. Web Services Want info about frogs I have frog data Index Index Discover Register Can I see frog data Client Client Factory Factory Bind Permanent Permanent gimme frog data Service Service Transient Transient Index Discover Register Client Service Access Permanent Frog Database Access via OGSI-DAI Grid Services Service • SAMD Demonstrator • Exposed NS Time Series Data as services • Secure single sign-on to both data and computation • Enables sophisticated applications, not just direct user web access • Web Services • How we might do this today • Web pages for machines not people • “Grid Services” • Web services plus state and lifetime • OGSA-DAI • Grid Service Framework for Database Access Supercomputing, Visualization & e-Science

  4. Manchester Collaboration Edinburgh Cardiff Cambridge EPCC RAL Oxford Daresbury Southampton London Newcastle Glasgow Belfast David Harmin University of Kentucky Quantum Computing ETF Management Meeting Seminar George Duncan Data Privacy Carnegie Mellon University Kelli Dipple Universities of Manchester and Florida Navigating Gravity Performance Art e-Social Science Supercomputing, Visualization & e-Science Coming soon Virtual Conferencing Support Centre

  5. Support • NCeSS • Central Resource, Integrated with ESRC methods initiatives and e-Science prog. • Raise awareness • Facilitate grid applications, substantive research and demos @ the nodes • Provide a one-stop shop • for expertise, training, technical support, data resources and promotion of grid middleware technologies and dissemination • Conduct ‘e-Research’ (develop grid and apply to Social Science) • Theme based collaborative research programmes, co-ordinated by Research Committee. • Development of demonstrator projects for awareness & training • Grid Support Centre – Grid Operations Centre • http://www.grid-support.ac.uk • National and regional e-Science centres Hubs Manchester & Essex Nodes Supercomputing, Visualization & e-Science

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