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UK e-Science EGEE Second Users’ Forum Dave Berry Deputy Director for Research with apologies from Malcolm Atkinson www.nesc.ac.uk 10 th May 2007. Science projects (70% of funding, Demanding drivers). e-Infrastructure (hardware, software & training).
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UK e-ScienceEGEE Second Users’ ForumDave BerryDeputy Director for Researchwith apologies fromMalcolm Atkinsonwww.nesc.ac.uk10th May 2007
Science projects (70% of funding, Demanding drivers) e-Infrastructure (hardware, software & training) Communities & Breadth Overview • History of e-Science in UK > 6 years • Three Significant Strengths Established
Defining e-Science • e-Science: Systematic Support for Collaborative Research using advanced ICT • Multi-disciplinary, Multi-Site & Multi-National • All disciplines contribute & benefit • Enabling wider engagement • Building on and demanding advances in Computing Science • Using advances in computing to support research, design, diagnosis • Dates back 50 years • Prevalent in branches of biology >30 years • Prevalent in Engineering for >40 years • New emphasis on collaboration, sharing & interdisciplinarity
UK e-Science GGF5 Edinburgh From presentation by Tony Hey
UK e-Science Diversity • Thriving Community • All disciplines & all Research Councils • Industry & Academia • Many universities & research institutes • UK e-Science All Hands Meetings • Productive collaboration
e-Infrastructure • A shared resource • That enables science, research, engineering, medicine, industry, … • It will improve UK / European / … productivity • Lisbon Accord 2000 • E-Science Vision SR2000 – John Taylor • Commitment by UK government • Sections 2.23-2.25 • Always there • c.f. telephones, transport, power • OSI report • www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/index.html
Theme 3: Adoption of e-Research Technologies Theme 4: Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes Theme 5: Distributed Programming Abstractions Theme 6: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Activity Slide from Dr Anna Kenway
Edinburgh Edinburgh Lancaster CCLRC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Manchester Didcot Cardiff Westminster Bristol National Grid Service and partners Leeds York Sheffield
CMS LHCb ATLAS CMS GridPP GridPP www.gridpp.ac.uk
Coordinated by:Directors’ Forum & NeSC e-Science Centres in the UK Digital Curation Centre Edinburgh White Rose Grid Glasgow Newcastle Access Grid Support Centre Lancaster Leicester Manchester Belfast National Centre for Text Mining National Centre for e-Social Science National Institute for Environmental e-Science Leeds York Sheffield CCLRC Daresbury Cambridge Birmingham Oxford National Grid Service Cardiff Bristol CCLRC RAL Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute Reading UCL Southampton LeSC
OMII-UK nodes EPCC & National e-Science Centre School of Computer Science University of Manchester Edinburgh School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Southampton Manchester Southampton
OMII-UK Software Open Source User Community Special Product Lines Community deposits Software catalogue Community software stacks Software repository OMII-BPEL Commissioned programme SE QA pipeline Workflow Portal Service registry Foreign Distributions Software spotted on safari or by Product or Area Liaisons (PALs) Data Infrastructure and Standards Community
Database Research Group, School of Informatics AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law EDINA National e-Science Centre Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute Glasgow Rutherford Appleton (Didcot) and Daresbury (Warrington) Laboratories Warrington UKOLN (formerly UK Office for Library Networking) Didcot Bath Digital Curation Centre and partners Edinburgh
Aberdeen University of Manchester University of Essex Lancaster Leeds Manchester Nottingham Oxford Colchester London Bristol National Centre for e-Social Science
The NERC Success • Professor Robert Gurney • Director, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading • The NERC e-Science experience • 11 papers in Nature • Enthusiastic uptake of ensemble methods
climateprediction.netUsers Worldwide>300,000 users total (90% MS Windows): >60,000 active~17 million model-years simulated (as of September '06)~180,000 completed simulations Impact:New Science Understanding of science Engaging schools BBC follow on The world's largest climate modelling supercomputer! (NB: a black dot is one or more computers running climateprediction.net) Slide: Robert Gurney
National Institute for Environmental e-Science, University of Cambridge Cambridge Swindon Reading University of Reading NERC centres
Healthcare @ Home REFERRAL REFERRAL GPHome-mobile-clinic via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper DiabeticianHome-mobile-clinic via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper Various Clinical Specialists (Distributed) e.g. Ophthalmologist, Podiatrist, Vascular Surgeons, Renal Specialists, Wound clinic, Foot care clinic, Neurologists, Cardiologists ILLNESS REFERRAL VARIABLESACCESSMATRIX CASE PatientHome-mobile-clinic via TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper Diabetes Specialist / Other Specialist Nurses Home-mobile-clinic via TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper Dietitian Biochemist Community Nurses / Health Visitors “Wellbeing” the global-scale killer app., Sir Robin Saxby Oct. 2006
determining ion channel contribution to the timing of action potentials resolving the ‘neural code’ from the timing of action potential activity examining integration within networks of differing dimensions New EPSRC project. CARMENlate 2006 - 2009 http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/carmen/ Understanding the brain may be the greatest informatics challenge of the 21st century Source: Colin Ingram
WTC Mont Blanc FireGrid Kings Cross Kobe Piper Alpha
FireGrid Architecture Pre-computedscenarios Building data Primary monitoring & gateways between sensor nets & grid Routine & Initial Workflows sensor validation & calibration, building and people status & event detection Escalated WorkflowsFrom PCs to teraflops 5 People C C C Workflow selection & steering B B B A A A D D D Data-flow selection & actuation Displays from sensors and simulations E E E Sensors & Actuators Temp, CO, smoke,displacement/strain, vibration/acoustic, systems status Logging C&C View selected status displays & user control panels Personal & Team Preference data
country • sites • country • sites • country • sites • Bulgaria • 3 • Greece • 3 • Romania • 1 • Croatia • 1 • Israel • 1 • Russia • 2 • Cyprus • 1 • Italy • 13 • Spain • 7 • France • 9 • Netherlands • 2 • Taiwan • 1 • Germany • 1 • Poland • 1 • UK • 10 WISDOM deployment : wisdom.eu-egee.fr Countries with nodes contributing to the data challenge WISDOM Total amount of CPU provided by EGEE federation
DAME/BROADEN http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/dame/ Aircraft healthcare diagnosis • Aims to manage >1Tb per year of Aero Engine vibration and maintenance data. • Interlinks with search and reasoning services. • Defined and evaluated a distributed search system. • GSI enabled secure engine performance simulation • CBR advisor for diagnostic engineer • A data architecture defined based on Globus and SRB. • BROADEN DTI Project (£3.9M) • Spun out technology exploited through Cybula Ltd., Oxford Biosignals and DS&S. • Successful mid-term demonstrator well received by Rolls Royce • White Rose Grid: experience of building & using production Grids • In Grid Blue Print 2 edition 2 • Jim Austin (Comp Sci, York) • 4 Universities and institutes • 3 Companies Slide: Carole Goble, Jim Fleming & Jim Austin
Take Home • UK e-Science investment has built threeinterdependent strengths: • Communities & collaboration • Projects delivering & demanding • e-Infrastructure: organisation, support & technology • Three success factors for projects • Engagement & value for all participants • Creativity & insight addressing a well-posed challenge • Technology adoption and innovation • Progress in research domains is the driver • Integrate whatever technology you need • Invent new technology only if you have to