NCRIS: Platforms for CollaborationFacilitator: Rhys Francis

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Platforms for Collaboration
NCRIS

• Facilitator
• Rhys Francis

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NCRIS Investment Requirements

• Investments must result in excellent research
  infrastructure that addresses the national
  requirements of the relevant capability area
  described in the NCRIS Roadmap.
• Investments must result in research
  infrastructure that is accessible by researchers
  on the basis of merit, at reasonable prices.
• Investments must include a facility ownership and
  management structure that will result in the
  efficient and effective operation of the
  infrastructure.
• Investments must include a business plan that
  will result in the efficient implementation and
  effective ongoing financial management of the
  infrastructure.

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And

• One proposal for each area
• Proposed by a selected facilitator
• Highly consultative process
• Proposal must be supported by the sector
• Once approved by NCRIS, to be implemented

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NCRIS Investments
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Platforms for Collaboration
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Lots of demand
NCRIS
Bio Mol Platforms
data
collab
grid
QoS
hpc
Int Bio Systems
data
collab
Characterisation
data
QoS
grid
hpc
virt.p
Fabrication
hpc
collab
Biotech Products
hpc
collab
Bio Security
collab
data
hpc
QoS
Astronomy
data
QoS
hpc
virt.p
d.sys
Marine Obs Sys
data
grid
hpc
collab
Str Evol Continent
data
QoS
grid
hpc
collab
Platforms for Collab
data
QoS
collab
grid
hpc
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A Decade of Strategic Investment

• 1997 High Performance Computing Committee
• Established the Australian Partnership for
  Advanced Computing to provide access to high
  performance computing capability
• 2000 Advanced Networks Programme
• Established advanced demonstrator networks
• 2002 Higher Education Bandwidth Advisory
  Committee
• Established the Australian Research and Education
  Network Advisory Committee, and the Australian
  Research and Education Network

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A Decade of Strategic Investment

• 2004 Research Infrastructure Taskforce Report
• Established the National Collaborative Research
  Infrastructure Strategy Committee to implement a
  program of strategic investment in research
  infrastructure
• 2006 eResearch Coordinating Committee Report
• Outlined an integrated program of skills
  development and of middleware and computer
  science research
• 2007 NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration
• Commitment to an infrastructure program covering
  computing, data and inter-operation components,
  and supporting the development of the Australian
  Access Federation

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eResearch Strategy

• Continuing Need for a Focus
• through a nationally coordinated approach
• Human Capabilities
• people with skills and understanding
• Linkage of eResearch Resources
• seamless access to resources
• Access to Data
• adopt best practice data management and curation
• Structural and Cultural Change
• evolution of organisational structures and
  cultures
• Awareness and Support
• develop researchers ability to adopt eResearch

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Changes in moving to PfC

• NCRIS process
• gt AeRIC and NEAT
• APAC National Facility
• gt National Computational Infrastructure
• APAC grid DEST funded projects
• gt Interoperation and Collaboration
  Infrastructure
• DEST 3rd party investments
• gt Australian National Data Services
• gt Australian Access Federation
• AARNet Grangenet Centie
• gt AREN
• gt Advanced Collaboration Network

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Overall thinking
Services (Tools) ((Software))
Compute infrastructure capability / capacity
AAF (trust)
AREN
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Investments

• E-Research
• Discipline/Capability services (tools ((and
  software))
• User and Operations support
• Collaboration support services
• Data
• Outreach, curation, data management services
• Meta-services, location, access, movement
• Collections brokerage and hosting services
• Computing
• National computing facility (capability
  computing)
• Collaborative national computing environment
• Foundation (Access)
• Australian Access Federation
• The Australian Research and Education Network

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Early Draft of Components
User Tools Discipline Services
Computing Infrastructure
Data Collections
Interoperation Collaboration Infrastructure
Foundation Services AREN, AAF
Interactions
Builders
Experts
Users
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What is the problem?
Content Tools Systems
Data Grid Compute
Semantics Adaptability
Virtualisation
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The three basic layers
Tools and Applications
Resource Services Infrastructure
Foundation services
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Foundations
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Proposed arrangement
Researchers and research communities Resource
owners and operators Users and User-Builders
Data Tools Discipline Services
Compute Tools Discipline Services
New tools, services expertise
Interoperation Collaboration Infrastructure
Foundation Services AREN and AAF
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National e-ResearchArchitecture Taskforce
NEAT
Researchers and research communities Resource
owners and operators Users and User-Builders
Data Tools Discipline Services
Compute Tools Discipline Services
New tools, services expertise
Interoperation Collaboration Infrastructure
Foundation Services AREN and AAF
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AeRIC
The Australian eResearch Infrastructure Council
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Contractual Structure
Computational Infrastructure
Interoperation Collaboration Infrastructure
Agent
AeRIC Executive Director NeAT
Data Management Infrastructure
Agent
Secretariat
Agent
AAF
AREN
Contract between DEST and agent
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Computational Infrastructure
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Computational Infrastructure
AeRIC
DEST
Business planning Reviews
APAC
NCRIS Agreement
ANU
Executive Committee
Director
National Facility
Mng
ANU
CTT
PL
Operator Agreements
???
Outreach
PL
Specialist Facility
Mng
Host
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Interoperation Collaboration
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Goal is greater reach
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Interoperation and Collaboration
AeRIC
DEST
NEAT
Business planning Reviews
NCRIS Agreement
ICI J/V
Executive Committee
VPAC
Director
Needs
User Support Applications, Portals
Collaboration Services
Development Project
T/L
PL
???
Operation support Data and Data
Transport Job submission, VM, AAA
T/L
Development Project
PL
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The Australian National Data Service
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Implementation
AeRIC
DEST
NEAT
Business planning Reviews
NCRIS Agreement
ANDS
Executive Committee
Agent(s)
Director
Needs
Stewardship
Technical Services
? ? ?
Mng
Service agreement
Development
Outreach
? ? ?
Operation
Service agreement
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Rough plan 2007-08
Membership established, first meeting 23 July,
meet quarterly
Membership established, first meeting August
NCRIS contract
Partner JV
Revised plan
Partners
NCRIS contract NF
Revised plan
Definition
Members
NCRIS contract
Adv AREN
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Challenge deliver to non experts
Services (Tools) ((Software))
Compute infrastructure capability / capacity
AAF (trust)
AREN
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The Future Issues

• Resource scheduling, marshalling, management,
  monitoring
• Intelligent and flexible search for resources
• Data management, access, integration
• Security and integrity
• Collaborative tools
• Simulation, modelling, visualisation
• Management of complex and intelligent systems
• Remote operation

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The Future Institutions

• Host and/or Owner of intellectual capital
• critical mass created in a trans-institution
  manner
• Repository of knowledge or data
• platforms of the past or for the future
• Competitor, ally or promiscuous collaborator
• control of personal and virtual collaboration?
• individual pre-eminence vs collaborative
  pre-eminence
• Provision of resources
• physical, access, human support
• Integrity management
• ethics, identity

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The Future Cultural Change

• Competition vs collaboration vs sharing
• individual
• institutional
• sectoral
• funding processes
• Discipline traditions vs trans-discipline future
• Universities, government and industry researchers
• University IT as an enabler of research

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