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E-Science Update. Overview. Reading Campus Grid Summary Campus Grid Update e-Science Mapping Other Developments The Future User Story: Kevin Hodges Discussion. Reading Campus Grid Summary. Access to about 500 lab/library PCs while they are not in use by students
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Overview • Reading Campus Grid Summary • Campus Grid Update • e-Science Mapping • Other Developments • The Future • User Story: Kevin Hodges • Discussion
Reading Campus Grid Summary • Access to about 500 lab/library PCs while they are not in use by students • The machines are available all night as the labs are closed • Ideal for research that involves running a program many times, where each run takes about an hour or less • It will work with any program that can be run on Linux machines • Uses combination of Condor and CoLinux to run on Windows • Technology developed in SSE by Chris Chapman and Ian Bland • ITS service by Chris de la Force & others
Campus Grid Update • Condor view statistics available
Campus Grid Update • Reading Campus Grid Now NGS Affiliate
Campus Grid Update • Condor view statistics available • Reading Campus Grid Now NGS Affiliate • Link to Oxford Campus Grid and NGS resources • Using the NGS Interfaces • Technically complete with policy issues to finalise • There has been about 11,500 CPU hours used in last 2 months; peak 200 CPUs • Kevin to follow
e-Science Mapping • Provide better software provision, resources and support to those working with e-Science • To discover areas of academic and e-Science expertise, to enable inter-disciplinary collaborations to be formed inside and outside of the University using e-Science • To inform the development of an e-Research agenda for the University • So far 33 researchers and IT Staff interviewed/surveyed
Other Developments • Providing support for users and groups to get started with e-Science /Grid: • e-Science Certificates • University resources (e.g. Campus Grid) • External resource (e.g. National Grid Support) • ACET now have their BladeCentre, which is available for Collaborative University Research Projects • 3040 PowerPC processors @2.3 GHz • 60 TByte storage • Myrinet Interconnect • 51st in the November 2008 top 500 list of supercomputers
The Future • New Campus Grid developments • Mapping will inform e-Research Plan • e-Science technology allows new forms of collaboration • We are seeking to increase inter-disciplinary collaboration around e-Science. • The University of Reading is working closely with the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC) to promote collaboration between the two universities.