EPSRC e-Science Meeting - Introduction

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• Dr Jim Fleming
• APM, EPSRC e-Science Programme

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• The EPSRC e-Science Programme organises annual
  meetings to bring the funded EPSRC e-Science
  projects together
• for the projects to learn more about each other
  (raise general awareness, build on existing links
  between projects, look for commonality and ways
  to leverage results to avoid repetition, and to
  share experience knowledge of wider e-Science
  Grid issues) and to
• Learn more about the e-Science Programme and
  what support it could provide.
• demonstrate what results have been achieved to
  date

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• The meeting is NOT
• An evaluation meeting for EPSRC
• 6-monthly reports to do that
• The Meeting IS
• Networking opportunity for all EPSRC Pilot
  Projects
• A self-evaluation meeting in front of your
  peers
• Look to spread Best Practise
• Technical issues
• Management issues
• Presentational issues

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• Demos
• Talks
• Invited Speakers
• Updates from Projects
• Surgeries
• Security Task Force
• Usability Task Force
• Project Managers Forum
• Dinner

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction
Demos

• Meeting is structured around the demo sessions
• Mixture of
• Break/Lunch sessions all projects
• Timetabled demos
• Crammond/Swanston Rooms

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction
Talks

• Two invited speakers
• Alistair Dunlop (Open Middleware
  Infrastructure Institute)
• Jeff Kephardt, IBM US
• Introductions from new Pilots (GOLD, IB)
• 30 min Project Updates
• Main Lecture Theatre

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction
Surgeries

• Or rather, Surgeries
• Security Task Force (today)
• Security Policy
• Usability Taskforce (tomorrow)
• Advise on making Grid middleware usable through
  the stack
• Dean Room

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction
Project Managers Forum

• Look at Best Practise (dos and donts)
• Informal no EPSRC
• Lead by Tom Jackson Sharon Lloyd
• Dean Room (tomorrow)

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• Dinner
• Carlton Hotel, North Bridge (few mins walk)
• Buffet
• Longer Breaks/lunch sessions
• Demos networking

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction
Computer Science for e-Science (tomorrow)

• Bring together with Pilot Projects
• Pilot Projects can inform on life at the coalface
• CS Projects can suggest where possible long-term
  solutions might come from
• 8 CS Talks breadth
• CS Poster Sessions

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EPSRC e-Science Meeting- Introduction

• Thanks
• Everyone for coming
• Effort producing demos/posters etc
• NeSC for help organising (Lee, Gill, Mark et al)

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EPSRC e-Science Programme- Highlights of Pilots

• Dr Jim Fleming
• EPSRC e-Science Programme

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EPSRC e-Science Programme- Highlights of Pilots
Some History

• 1st Call for Outlines launched Feb 2001
• Closing date April 2001
• Briefing Meeting for shortlisted projects May
  2001
• Decision made end July 2001
• Projects start October 2001 Feb 2002
• Projects end to Sept 2005

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Evaluation

• APM (from programmes) attached to each project
• All projects submit 6 monthly progress report
  (standard)
• Obliged to attend EPSRC e-Science meeting and
  AHM annually

• Final report Theme Day evaluation

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CombeChem

• collaboration between the statisticians and the
  chemists on design of experiments
• successful deployment of 'Bruno', the robot
  which is at the heart of the National
  Crystallography databases service, and the
  associated grid-enabling
• chemists working with another discipline very
  successfully
• work on Security
• JGF Chair of the UK e-Science User Group

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DAME

• DAME have successfully produced their mid-term
  demonstrator
• ? well received by Rolls Royce
• Contribution to latest Foster Kesselman (as
  have others)
• Involvement in White Rose Grid
• Experience of building using real Grids

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Discovery Net

• SC2002 Prize ( SC2003)
• ? won the HPC Challenge Award for Most Innovate
  Data-Intensive Application
• Range of applications (esp. Bioinformatics
  Environmental monitoring)
• International Links

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Geodise

• Links to other projects Core Programme
• Strong links to/interplay with industrial
  projects through SeSC
• Involvement in BBSRC/NERC projects
• XML Toolbox for Matlab (gt300 downloads)
• other toolboxes

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myGrid

• International links
• Links to real use cases
• Highest profile Biology project?
• Large publication record
• Availability of myGrid s/w on www
• Interest from BBSRC/MRC bids

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Reality Grid

• Excellent 1st Annual Workshop
• Good multi site interactions
• SC2003 TeraGyroid
• ? won the HPC Challenge Award for Most Innovate
  Data-Intensive Application
• Highlighting Usability Issues ( lightweight
  Grids)

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Summary

• Very good progress to date
• Generally excellent links
• across disciplines
• across institutions
• across whole e-Science Programme
• GGF
• Industry
• (Generally) Good source of up-to-date material
  on www
• Key issues arise from how Projects complete