Research Projects

Dave BerryResearch Manager

Chinese Delegation18th Nov 2004

High Energy Physics: LHC

ALICE- heavy ion collisions, to create quark-gluon plasmas

- 50,000 particles in each collision

LHCb- to study the differences between matter and antimatter

- producing over 100 million b and b-bar mesons each year

ATLAS- general purpose: origin of mass, supersymmetry, micro-black holes

- 2,000 scientists from 34 countries

CMS- general prupose detector- muon tracking, electromagnetic calorimeter, central tracking and hadron calorimeter

~6-8 PetaBytes / year~108 events/year

~103 batch and interactive users

The EGEE Consortium

Total of 70 full partners covering entire EU and beyondTotal budget: ~32 M€

Virtual Observatories

IRAS 252MASS 2DSS Optical IRAS 100 NVSS 20cmGB 6cmROSAT ~keV WENSS 92cm

Observations made across entire electromagnetic spectrum

Different views of a local galaxy Need all of them to understand physics fully Databases are located throughout the world

The Virtual Observatory

International Virtual Observatory Alliance

UK, Australia, EU, China, UK, Australia, EU, China, Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan, Korea, US, Russia, France, IndiaKorea, US, Russia, France, India

How to integrate manymulti-TB collections ofheterogeneous data distributed globally?

Mass-scaleData Mining

BRIDGES: BioInformatics

Glasgow Edinburgh

Leicester Oxford

London

Netherlands

Publically Curated Data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

CFG Virtual Organisation Ensembl

MGI

HUGO

OMIM

SWISS-PROT

… DATA HUB

RGD

SyntenyGrid

Service

blast

+

VO Authorisation

eDiaMoND: Screening for Breast Cancer

1 Trust Many TrustsCollaborative WorkingAudit capabilityEpidemiology

Other Modalities-MRI-PET-Ultrasound

Better access toCase informationAnd digital tools

Supplement MentoringWith access to digitalTraining cases and sharingOf information acrossclinics

LettersRadiology reportingsystems

eDiaMoNDGrid

2ndary CaptureOr FFD

Case Information

X-Rays andCase Information

DigitalReading

SMF

Case andReading Information

CAD Temporal Comparison

Screening

ElectronicPatient Records

Assessment/ SymptomaticBiopsy

Case andReading Information

Symptomatic/AssessmentInformation

Training

Manage Training Cases

Perform Training

SMF CAD 3D Images

Patients

Provided by eDiamond project: Prof. Sir Mike Brady et al.

GridQTL

A portal for execution of compute-intensive,multi-trait Quantitative Trait Loci analysesJoint project with Institute for Evolutionary Biology and the Roslin InstituteFunded by the BBSRC for 4.5 years

GridQTL Portal

Meta Scheduler

Research Data

Research Data

Analysis 3

Analysis 2

Analysis 1

UK e-Science Grid or NGS Resources

Modern fire safety engineering Modern fire safety engineering for the future built environmentfor the future built environment

Integrated Emergency Response Model

for the 21st Century

Example: Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire

Fire detected

1st Decision

1st Response

TIME (min)

0

10 Traffic stopped

15 Fans turned on inwrong direction!

French Fire Br.20 Intervention made difficult

by poor initial response

Events Consequences

Italian Fire Br.25

Enhancement ofsmoke and fire

39 dead!

Emergency assessment too slow!Lack of co-ordination b/w 2 sidestoo many vehicles enter tunnel

Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire & FireGrid

Fire detected0+Sensors channel

info to C&C ‘Emergency Response’ Mode

Better emergencyassessment

Sensor drivensimulations initialised

1st Decision~1 Traffic stopped

Early forecasts

Select pre-designedscenario matches

TIME (min) Events Consequences

x- Pre-emergencyresponse planning

Case-basedtraining

Many scenariosgenerated

Co-ordinationPreparedness

Use in ‘Design’ Mode

application

Lives saved!20 Fire Brigades

Emergency magnitudeminimised

Effective intervention

C&C tasksemergency responders

Escalation: Alert Experts,Commandeer resources

Better emergencyplanning

e-ScienceApplication

BinaryData File

BinaryData FileBinary

Data File

BinaryData FileBinary

Data File

BinaryData File

BinX – accessing legacy binary data

The Problem:Many binary data filesApplications must “know”the data formatBinary data formats are machine-specific

BinX Library

The Solution:Write a “stand-aside” format description in XMLProvide a library to

Interpret the description Provide file access across different

machines

Build higher-level services

BinX file describes binary file structure

BinX file describes binary file structure

simulations