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Computing at CLRC

Computing at CLRC. Keith G Jeffery Acting Director, Information Technology. CLRC. The Central Laboratory for the Research Councils has three laboratories Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Daresbury Laboratory Chilbolton and has a mission: support R&D in science and engineering

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Computing at CLRC

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  1. Computing at CLRC Keith G Jeffery Acting Director, Information Technology HEPiX April 1999

  2. CLRC • The Central Laboratory for the Research Councils has three laboratories • Rutherford Appleton Laboratory • Daresbury Laboratory • Chilbolton • and has a mission: • support R&D in science and engineering • technology transfer and wealth creation • public understanding of science HEPiX April 1999

  3. What do we do? • Space-based - both astronomy and earth observation satellites • Materials - synchrotron radiation source at DL and neutron source at RAL - materials • High-powered Lasers for fusion and investigations • Microstructure fabrication and electronics • Particle Physics • Computing HEPiX April 1999

  4. How does computing feature? • Computing infrastructure for the whole of CLRC • Scientific computing for each area of R&D • Computing for external customers both from Research Council (academic sector) and commerce / industry • Computing for the CLRC business procedures • Information Systems - R&D, production systems • Computational Science -R&D, production systems HEPiX April 1999

  5. Computing infrastructure for the whole of CLRC • NT / Microsoft Strategy for the desktop, centralised management and application delivery • Email and calendar based on MS Exchange and Outlook (associated Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access). • Intranet - WWW - Dataweb • Networks - departmental networks with FDDI backbone around the site HEPiX April 1999

  6. Scientific computing for each area of research • ‘Big Science’ done at CLRC • is always part of national and international collaborations. • impose conflicting computing standards so we have examples of almost every manufacturer and operating system • Examples • Unix in Astronomy (Starlink talk at HEPiX) • Unix and NT for Particle Physics (RAL Site Report) • VMS on ISIS • NT and Unix for Computing Science • Supercomputers for Computational Science HEPiX April 1999

  7. Computing for the lab’s business procedures • what we do now • central transaction processing systems for finance, personnel, assets (with specialised client software) for administration staff • decision support systems for project managers via web forms and dataweb on intranet • paper-based input / update project managers ==> administration • what we plan to do • revise processes to all electronic HEPiX April 1999

  8. Computing Services for Customers • Computer systems, operations, help desk • support of applications packages and software suites • advice and assistance • community clubs • joint R&D work HEPiX April 1999

  9. Information Systems • W3C Office at RAL • Advanced Database-based Information Systems - Dataweb and metadata • Multimedia and Hypermedia • Knowledge based systems • Business process, dataflow, cooperative working • Virtual Reality, Visualisation and Graphics HEPiX April 1999

  10. Computational Science • Mathematical Algorithms • sparse matrices • optimisation theory • computational modelling in chemistry, biology, materials, and engineering HEPiX April 1999

  11. Computing at CLRC : Organisation • DCI (formed by various mergers of previous departments): March 1 1999 split: • CSE: • Computational Science -R&D, production systems • ITD • Computing infrastructure for the whole of CLRC • Scientific computing for each area of R&D • Computing for external customers both from Research Council (academic sector) and commerce / industry • Computing for the CLRC business procedures • Information Systems - R&D, production systems HEPiX April 1999

  12. How will computing develop at CLRC? • Information Systems • CLRC Business Procedure effectiveness and efficiency • Information Systems R&D • WWW & Hypermedia • Database and metadata • Knowledge based systems • VR and Visualisation Centre • Supercomputing - commodity-based, ASCI systems, distributed shared memory HEPiX April 1999

  13. How will computing develop at CLRC? • Customer Service: Particle Physics • greatly increasing demands for cpu, disk, tape. • Regional Centre model for future experiments • We want to listen and discuss HEPiX April 1999

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