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

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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