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e-Research at Cardiff - Welsh e-Science Centre
John Oliver Commercial Coordinator
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e-Research at Cardiff

• John Oliver
• Commercial Coordinator
• Welsh e-Science Centre

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Synopsis

• Grid Benefits
• Welsh e-Science Centre Aims
• WeSC Competence Unique Assets
• Local Initiatives

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The Grid is tomorrows Internet

• A powerful new ICT Infrastructure enables
  sharing of raw computing power and resources,
  including data, instruments, sensors and
  visualisation over networks.

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Grid Benefits

• Collaborative Working- increasing in
  science/engineering projects- face-to-face
  remote communication Access Grid
• Knowledge Management- Data ? Information ?
  Knowledge- Scalability

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Grid Benefits

• Service Oriented Approach- Pay-as-you-go,
  electrical power analogy- Choice of services-
  Access to specialist services lower cost
• Problem Solving Environments- Work
  benches/toolsets for problems of a specific
  order

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WeSC Aims

• Promote Grid R D in Wales
• Encourage technology exploitation
• Pursue research 3 areas

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Aims - Promotion of R D

• INDUSTRY/COMMERCE
• UNIVERSITIES/HEIS

DIRECT Invitations Visits Events - Own -
Third PartyExhibitionsDemonstrations
INDIRECT Web Site Newsletter Brochures Case
studies Third partyreferrals
? Develop ?
Relationships
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PARTNERSHIPS
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Aims - Technology Exploitation

• Education- Training Courses- Literature-
  Expertise
• Partnerships ? Joint Projects ? Win-Win-
  Industrial/Academic
• People- gt 40 experts/technologists at Cardiff

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Aims Promote Research

• Data knowledge management diverse resources
• PSEs Science/engineering
• Distributed Visualization Immersive/collaborativ
  e

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WeSC Competence

• Highly skilled/respected people- gt40
  research/teaching
• Track record- 30 successful collaborative
  projects- 6 industrial partnerships

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Unique Assets

• Grid Test Bed used to test Grid middleware
• Cardiff University Distributed Visualization
  Facility- multi processors- high end Graphics
  (inc 3D)- high speed/bandwidth network at CU
• High capacity Grid storage and search facility-
  4 TB flexible storage- advanced data pattern
  matching facility- first installation in world

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Company Links

• Industrial Projects
• BT Exact
• BAE Systems
• HP
• SGI
• Activeplan
• Avantis World
• Sea Marine Engineering
• Evotec

• Others
• IBM
• Zarlink Semiconductors
• Smart Holograms

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International Partners/Links

• Industrial Projects- GECEM Institute of HPC,
  Singapore- RAVE Oakridge Lab, Tennessee
• Others- NIMROD Monash University,
  Australia- Prof Alec Gray Global Biodiversity
  Information Facility

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Welsh e-Science Projects

• 30 in progress
• Applications,
• Industrial Partnerships
• Middlewares
• Tools

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Applications

• Biodiversity World Reading, Soton Nat Hist
  
  MuseumPSE for collaborative exploration and
  analysis of global biodiversity patterns
• RT Grid - Velindre Cancer Care CentreRadiotheraph
  y dose calculation Monte Carlo techniques
• e-HTPX Daresbury/Oxford/York/Cambrige/EBIResour
  ce for High Throughput Protein Crystallography

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Industrial Partnerships

• CONOISE-G - BT Exact, Soton, Aberdeen A
  distributed environment in which multi-agents
  provide diverse services
• GECEM BAE Systems, HP, IHPC, SwanseaGrid-Enable
  d Computational Electromagnetics
• RAVE - SGI Resource Aware Visualisation
  Environment

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Middlewares

• Access Grid VRE- Manchester, Soton,
  Edinburgh,
  OUVideoconferencing - services for meeting
  co-ordination replay
• UDDI- e - CardiffAn extended registry for web
  services
• MANGO CardiffMessaging and Notifications for
  Grid Organisations

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Tools

• Triana Cardiff Graphical environment to create
  programs
• JACAW CardiffJava-C Automatic Wrapping
• SWFL CardiffService Workflow Language -
  Scientific

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Summary

• Grid Benefits
• Welsh e-Science Centre Aims
• WeSC Competence Unique Assets
• Local Initiatives

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