What OMIIUK can do for you as an individual

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What OMII-UK can do for you as an individual?

• Neil Chue Hong

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OMII-UK Software Solutions for e-Research

• Whats been going on at OMII-UK?
• Virtual laboratories for e-Science
• Secure access to census data
• Access Grid sessions in a browser
• Campus Grids in a Box
• Running applications on the NGS
• The Jax Innovation Awards 2007
• Major new release of OGSA-DAI
• 37,000 downloads of Taverna
• Supported open source software
• Whats going on at the All Hands Meeting?
• One Tutorial
• Two Workshops
• Twelve Talks
• Fourteen Demos

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Overview

• OMII-UK in a nutshell
• Software Solutions for e-Research
• OMII-UK Software
• OMII-UK Support

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Where are you?
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AnalysingRequirements
Results of actions from last cycle
Analysing Requirements
Honest assessment of components User
Requirements analysis Software Catalogue
registrations Send people out to communities User
surveys and follow-ups Performance/Usability Custo
mer requests User forum User Advocates Embedded
Scientists
Specific Requirements from Specific Communities
Implement actions
NERC community are going to stop using our
products if we dont fix bottlenecks in our
workflow
Analysis
Suggest priorities
Execution
Suggest actions
Digest intelligence
Strategy
Prioritise actions
If we form an alliance with e-Minerals then we
can build developer tools which will be useful
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Software Solutions for e-Research

• Vertical integration around three different Grid
  viewpoints
• Campus Grid Toolkit
• Taverna Workbench
• Data Management
• Provide out of the box experience for common
  e-Research tasks

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Campus Grid Toolkit

• The Campus Grid Toolkit provides a gateway to the
  computational power of the resources within your
  organisation
• Designed to allow you to transparently extend
  their research from the desktop to the Campus
  Grid
• Make it easy to set up Campus Grids

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Taverna Workbench

• The Taverna Workbench allows you to effortlessly
  integrate distributed and local tools and data
  sources via workflows
• Workflows encapsulate processing steps required
  for your experiments
• Share and develop workflows with the rest of your
  community
• 37,000 downloads of Taverna 1.x
• Taverna 2 being developed to address speed and
  scalability restrictions

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Data Management

• Data Management provides you with tools to
  publish and share your data and results with
  others in your collaboration.
• A single environmentfor the many different
  types of data resource you require for
  yourresearch.
• OGSA-DAI 3.0 released

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OMII-UK Development Kit

• The OMII-UK Development Kit comprises a
  collection of award winning, interoperable,
  software components that can be linked together
  to form bespoke applications
• Provide the building blocks such as security,
  registries, data access and job submission

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Commissioned Software Programme

• Identify gaps in functionality or quality
  required from community
• e.g. through SUPER report
• Provide funding back into the community to meet
  specific needs
• through calls, or through responsive funding
• Portlets, Grid APIs, Desktop Grids

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AHE GridSAM

• Client only needs to know about applications
• Super-users allow standard configurations to be
  setup
• Software used to provide several abstraction
  layers

Courtesy Stefan Zasada
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OMII-UK Software

• Provide support for the wide range of e-Science
  software
• help provide easy to install components
• Build on software such as OGSA-DAI, Taverna,
  GridSAM
• Enable e-Science software to have a sustainable
  future
• direct support through to open source

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OMII-UK Support
ISSGC

• Provide confidence in adopting e-Science
  solutions through software support and training.
• Provide collaborative mechanisms to enable the
  e-Science community to help itself.
• Engage with the international community to
  define, contribute and disseminate best practice
  and standards.

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OMII-UK Community Engagement

• PALs and Beta-Testers
• Open Forums
• User Board
• Different ways of understanding community needs
  and gathering feedback
• Multiple approaches from multiple skill bases to
  attack a common problem

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What makes something sustainable?

• Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
  Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life.
• OMII-UK is able to identify and generate
  synergies amongst different groups
• identify specialisms which are useful across
  disciplines
• create benefit without diluting community vision
• provide networking and sharing of best practice
• "Teach a man to fish, and you introduce another
  competitor into the overcrowded fishing industry.
  Give a man a fish, and you stimulate demand for
  your product"

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OMII-UK for the individual researcher

• Make it easy to understand what you require
• Make it straightforward to use our software
• Make it simple to get support
• Identify the best of e-Science in the UK and make
  it available to the individual researcher

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Main OMII-UK Events at AHM

• Monday
• OMII-UK Workshop
• myExperiment Mining Biomedical Literature using
  the AIDA toolbox and Taverna talk and
  demonstration
• Tuesday
• 11.30 JSDL Application Repository on NGS talk
• 11.30 OGSA-DAI 3.0 talk
• 12.20 Towards Grid Interoperability talk
• 13.00 SEE-GEO demonstration (JISC stand)
• 13.15 AstroGrid demonstration (STFC)
• 15.10 NDG Security talk
• 16.00 OMII SPAM-GP demonstration (OMII-UK)
• 16.30 PAG demonstration (OMII-UK/AGSC)

• Wednesday
• 13.30 RAVE demonstration (OMII-UK)
• 13.45 RAPID demonstration (eSI/NeSC)
• 14.00 OMII Security portlets demonstration
  (eSI/NeSC)
• 14.00 myExperiment demonstration (eSNW)
• 14.25 VOTES demonstration (eSI/NeSC)
• 14.30 nanoCMOS demonstration (EPSRC)
• 14.30 OGC Geolinking IE (WhiteRoseGrid)
• 14.40 VOTES demonstration (MRC)
• Thursday
• 09.00 OGSA-DAI 3.0 Tutorial
• On demand demos for
• Taverna
• OGSA-DAI
• GridSAM
• GRIMOIRES

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The OMII-UKOpen Forum
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Why a forum?

• Bringing like-minded people together
• what can you hope to gain?
• Therac-25 radiation therapy machine
• Six known accidents between 1985-1987
• AECL personnel did not initially believe
  complaints
• No independent review of design
• Power in numbers helps developers prioritise

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OMII-UK Open Forum

• Anyone can participate
• Share experiences
• Share requirements
• Share best practice
• You drive the forum, not us!
• We listen and learn
• Looking for people to help lead forum
• Suggestions for locations?