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Chinese Delegation visit Malcolm Atkinson Director www.nesc.ac.uk 18 th November 2004. What is e-Science?. Goal: to enable better research in all applications Method: Invention and exploitation of advanced computational methods to generate, curate and analyse research data - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Chinese Delegation
visit
Malcolm AtkinsonDirector
www.nesc.ac.uk
18th November 2004
What is e-Science?Goal: to enable better research in all applicationsMethod: Invention and exploitation of advanced computational methods
to generate, curate and analyse research data From experiments, observations and simulations Quality management, preservation and reliable evidence
to develop and explore models and simulations Computation and data at extreme scales Trustworthy, economic, timely and relevant results
to enable dynamic distributed virtual organisations
Facilitating collaboration with information and resource sharing Security, reliability, accountability, manageability and agilityDoes e-Science warrant new collaborations?
The Primary Requirement …
Enabling People to Work Together on Challenging Projects: Science, Engineering & Medicine
NERC (£15M)7%
CLRC (£10M)5%
ESRC (£13.6M)6%
PPARC (£57.6M)27%
BBSRC (£18M)8%
MRC (£21.1M)10%
EPSRC (£77.7M)37%
Staff costs -Grid Resources
Computers & Networkfunded separately
Applied (£35M)45%
HPC (£11.5M)15%
Core (£31.2M)40%
EPSRC Breakdown
UK e-Science Budget (2001-2006)
Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST)
Total: £213M
+ Industrial Contributions £25M
+ £100M via JISC
Globus Alliance
CeSC (Cambridge)
DigitalCurationCentre
e-Science Institute
Open Middleware
Infrastructure Institute
The e-Science Centres
EGEE
Grid Operations
SupportCentre
NationalCentre fore-SocialScience
National Institute
forEnvironmental
e-Science
The European dimension
EGEE: Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe
… and beyond32M Euro, 10 regions, 70 partnersAdditional funding from NSF (USA)50% production, 30% development, and 20% dissemination and training
“The Grid Infrastructure in Europe”Deploy a production Grid across EuropeInitially based on LHC Computing Grid
UK NGS will converge and run same e-Infrastructure
Importance of collaboration: VDT
A highly successful collaborative effort
VDT Working GroupVDS (Chimera/Pegasus) team
Provides the “V” in VDT
Condor TeamGlobus AllianceNMI Build and Test team EDG/LCG/EGEE
Middleware, testing, patches, feedback …
PPDG Hardening and testing
Pacman Provides easy installation
capability Currently Pacman 2, moving to
Pacman 3 soon
Used by many projectsSystematic testingRich integration of
componentsChina should be part of this – exploit test bed
contribute componentsProductise our M/W with this testing & packaging
Thanks to Miron Livny
1st & 2nd International Grid Summer Schools
Built on CERN Summer school Experience
International collaboration - GGF- Multi-national Sponsors-High profile engaging teachers
Carefully Designed Syllabus
This year’s event was attended by 84 selected advanced students – from all around the world
Where Next for e-Infrastructure
Put people and teams firstInvest in building a communityThe creative forceThe repository of Experience, Skills and Knowledge
Focus on Major PrioritiesDeveloping well-defined Flexible Agreements
Embraced as standards
High-level Software Investment Applications & Requirements led
Explore & Evolve Common & Shared Infrastructure
Recognise and respond to differencesCelebrate and support commonalities
International Collaboration EssentialGlobal ResearchStandards and interoperation
OGSA
Infrastructure Architecture
Grid or Web Service Infrastructure
Data Intensive Applications for Science X
Compute, Data & Storage Resources
Distributed
Simulation, Analysis & Integration Technology for Science X
Data Intensive X Scientists
Virtual Integration Architecture
Generic Virtual Data Access and Integration Layer
Structured DataIntegration
Structured Data Access
Structured Data Relational XML Semi-structured-
Transformation
Registry
Job Submission
Data Transport Resource Usage
Banking
Brokering Workflow
AuthorisationOGSA-DAI
Database GrowthPDB Content Growth
Biochemical Pathway Simulator
Closing the inf ormation loop – between lab and computational model.
(Computing Science, Bioinformatics, Beatson Cancer Research Labs)
DTI Bioscience Beacon Project Harnessing Genomics Programme
Slide from Muffy Calder, Glasgow
Now largest EU project in the Life Sciences – see http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/news/pressreleases/scottishscientists_22july04
Walter Kolch
e-Science Institute Figures for 3 Years
We have run just under 7 per month (up from just over 6 average for first two years)
19,456 delegate days248 events8,329 delegates (many ‘repeats’)421 event days (in 750 working days)
Further statistics exclude GGF5, as we did not handle registration so cannot do a detailed analysis.
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Involvement in EGEE reflected in increase in EU participation
Take home messages
E-Science is for everybody & every disciplineEnvironment, health, safety, design, science, humanities
To enable itBuild “people grids”Educate & trainAnd “institution e-Infrastructures”
The TechnologyWill support useful work nowBut still too hard to use & hard to sustain
Work on the TechnologyMiddleware, Portals, Security, Networks collaboratively