UK e-Science Programme and The National e-Science Centre - Microsoft PowerPoint

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The UK e-Science Programme The National
e-Science Centre Malcolm Atkinson Director of
NeSCUniversities of Edinburgh and
GlasgowPilot Projects Meeting 25th January
2002
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Outline

• Review e-Science
• What is it?
• Assumptions Progress
• UK e-Science Centres
• NeSC
• e-Science Institute

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What is e-Science?

• An acceleration of a trend?
• A sea change in scientific method?
• A new opportunity for science?
• And every other collaborative, information
  intensive activity

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Accelerating Trend

• More and More data ? must change methods
• Instrument resolution doubling /12 months
• Instrument and telemetry speeds increasing
• Storage capacity doubling / 12 months
• Number of data sources doubling / ?? months
• Laboratory automation capacity doubling / ??
• More and More Computation
• Computations available doubling / 18 months
• Analyses and simulations increasing
• Faster networks ? can change methods
• Raw bandwidth doubling / 9 months
• These Integrate and Enable
• More interplay between computation and data
• More collaboration scientists, medics,
  engineers,
• More international collaboration

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Sea Change

• In Silico discovery systematic exploration
• Exploration of data and models predicts results
• Verified by directed experiments
• Combinatorial chemistry
• Gene function
• Protein Structure,
• Shared Resources ? need intelligent labs
• Researchers Workbench ?
• Laboratory team ?
• Multi-national network of labs modellers ?
• Public instruments, repositories and simulations
• Floods of (public) data ? must integrate data
• More than can be used by human inspection
• Gene sequence doubling / 9 months ?
• Searches required doubles / 4.5 months
• Discovery by correlating diverse data

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But

• Skilled scientists and computer scientists
• Roughly static in number
• Diminishing in available attention / task
• Distributed systems remain hard
• E.g. component failures and latency are always
  with us
• E.g. operational information goes stale
• Integration remains hard
• Important data in documents
• More subjects experiencing the
• Data deluge
• Analysis avalanche
• Simulation bonanza
• Collaboration growth
• Therefore find general solutions
• Make technology easier to use

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The New Behaviour

• Shared Infrastructure
• Intrinsically distributed
• Intrinsically multi-organisational
• Multiple uses interwoven
• Shared Software
• A new attempt at making distributed computing
  economic, dependable and accessible
• Scientists from all disciplines share in its
  design and use
• Shared Automated System Administration
• Replicated farms of replicated systems
• Autonomic management
• Immediate benefit
• Faster transfer of ideas and techniques between
  disciplines
• Amortisation of development, operation and
  education

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Not Just Scientists

• Engineers
• They already travel the same path
• Finance, economy, politics,
• We can expect best use of data and models to
  guide the decisions that affect our lives
• e.g. home climate simulation may moderate
  greenhouse gas emissions
• Medicine
• See above
• Industry Commerce
• See above
• The UK Office of Science Technology
• Has these extensions firmly in mind
• So have twelve computing S/W companies
• Signed agreements with GGF

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Several Assumptions

• The Technology is Ready
• Not true its emerging
• Building middleware, Advancing Standards,
  Developing Dependability
• The Scientists / Engineers, want this
• Not universally true
• Pilot projects and Demonstrators
• The e-Science Institute
• One Size Fits All
• Not true
• Addressed by a minimum set of composable virtual
  services
• But starting with Globus
• Its only for big science
• No small science collaborates too!
• We know how we will use grid services
• No Disruptive technology

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UK e-Science
From presentation by Tony Hey
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UK Grid Network
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
Manchester
DL
Cambridge
Oxford
Hinxton
RAL
Cardiff
London
Southampton
From Tony Hey 27 July 01
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NeSCs context
Coordination
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NeSCs Roles

• Stimulation of Grid e-Science Activity
• Users, developers, researchers
• Education, Training, Support
• International Research Standards
• Coordination of Grid e-Science Activity
• Regional Centres, Task Forces, Pilots IRCs
• Technical and Managerial Fora
• Support for training, travel, participation
• Developing a High-Profile e-Science Institute
• Meetings
• Visiting Researchers
• International Collaboration
• Regional Support
• Portfolio of Industrial Research Projects

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NeSC The Team

• Director
• Malcolm Atkinson (Universities of Glasgow
  Edinburgh)
• Deputy Director
• Arthur Trew (Director EPCC)
• Commercial Director
• Mark Parsons (EPCC)
• Regional Director
• Stuart Anderson (Edinburgh Informatics)
• Chairman
• Richard Kenway (Edinburgh Physics Astronomy)
• Initial Board Members
• Muffy Calder (Glasgow Computing Science)
• Tony Doyle (Glasgow Physics Astronomy)
• Centre Manager
• Anna Kenway
• Conference Manager
• Andrea Grainger

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e-Science Institute

• Highlights so Far
• August September
• 3 workshops week 1 DF1, GUM1 DBAG1
• HEC2 and the Grid
• preGGF3 DF2
• October
• Steve Tuecke Globus tutorial (oversubscribed)
• 4-day workshop Getting Going with Globus (G3)
• Reports on DataGrid GridPP experience
• Biologist Grid Users Meeting 1 (BiGUM1)
• November
• GridPP
• Configuration management
• December
• Architecture Strategy with Ian Foster et al.
• AstroGrid
• DIRC meeting
• 625 participants, 107 organisations, 20 countries

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eSI Highlights cont.

• 2002
• January
• Regional meeting
• Steve Tuecke et al. 4 day Globus Developers
  Workshop
• Pilot project workshop
• Grid Portals Problem Solving Environments
  Workshop
• February closed for renovation
• March
• Blue Gene Protein folding Workshop 14th to 17th
  IBM sponsor
• April
• XML, XML Schema, Web Services Advanced Workshop
• Getting OGSA Going Workshop
• Managing Grid Software Projects Advanced Workshop
• Digital Libraries, Librarians, Museums and the
  Grid
• May
• 4-day Advanced Grid Globus Tutorial (probable)
• Mind and Brain Workshop

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eSI Highlights cont.

• 2002
• January
• Regional meeting
• Steve Tuecke et al. 4 day Globus Developers
  Workshop
• Pilot project workshop
• Grid Portals Problem Solving Environments
  Workshop
• February closed for renovation
• March
• Blue Gene Protein folding Workshop 14th to 17th
  IBM sponsor
• April
• XML, XML Schema, Web Services Advanced Workshop
• Getting OGSA Going Workshop
• Managing Grid Software Projects Advanced Workshop
• Digital Libraries, Librarians, Museums and the
  Grid
• May
• 4-day Advanced Grid Globus Tutorial (probable)
• Mind and Brain Workshop

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eSI Highlights cont.

• 2002
• January
• Regional meeting
• Steve Tuecke et al. 4 day Globus Developers
  Workshop
• Pilot project workshop
• Grid Portals Problem Solving Environments
  Workshop
• February closed for renovation
• March
• Blue Gene Protein folding Workshop 14th to 17th
  IBM sponsor
• April
• XML, XML Schema, Web Services Advanced Workshop
• Getting OGSA Going Workshop
• Managing Grid Software Projects Advanced Workshop
• Digital Libraries, Librarians, Museums and the
  Grid
• May
• 4-day Advanced Grid Globus Tutorial (probable)
• Mind and Brain Workshop

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eSI Highlights cont.

• 2002
• January
• Regional meeting
• Steve Tuecke et al. 4 day Globus Developers
  Workshop
• Pilot project workshop
• Grid Portals Problem Solving Environments
  Workshop
• February closed for renovation
• March
• Blue Gene Protein folding Workshop 14th to 17th
  IBM sponsor
• April
• XML, XML Schema, Web Services Advanced Workshop
• Getting OGSA Going Workshop
• Managing Grid Software Projects Advanced Workshop
• Digital Libraries, Librarians, Museums and the
  Grid
• May
• 4-day Advanced Grid Globus Tutorial (probable)
• Mind and Brain Workshop

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eSI continued

• 21st to 26th July 2002GGF5 HPDC 11 EICC
• August Research Festival
• 14th to 16th April 2003 Dependability

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eSI continued

• 21st to 26th July 2002GGF5 HPDC 11 EICC
• August Research Festival
• 14th to 16th April 2003 Dependability

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Suggestions Please

• e-Science Institute
• Welcomes suggestions and organisers
• Any topic related to e-Science
• How your subject may use e-Science
• How your technology may benefit e-Science
• Any format
• Tutorial, advanced tutorial, workshop,
  scientific meeting
• We can give
• travel, organisation, accommodation support
• This building renovated!
• Mail director_at_nesc.ac.uk

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Research Visitors

• We will welcome and support
• Active e-Science Researchers
• Suggestions Please
• People, Topics Groups
• Applications via web site
• www.nesc.ac.uk

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Grid Net

• Support for those engaged in Grid development
• International working groups
• Sustained commitment
• Travel, Meeting costs,
• Application process via web site
• www.nesc.ac.u k
• Ad hoc arrangements for GGF4
• Via the web site

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Where to Concentrate

• International Industrial Collaboration
• Ideas, experiments, software, standards
• Integrating Data across the Grid
• Data growth demands new methods
• Data ownership expects respect security
• Data is hard to scan indexing query
• Data is hard to move query move code
• Human attention is scarce but essential
• Machine-assisted annotation, provenance,
  archiving
• Machine-assisted data mining
• Machine-assisted ontology construction
  integration
• Human-factors must drive designs
• Dynamic, Dependable and Virtual Fabric
• Improved Programming Models

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For more Information

• Ask me
• www.nesc.ac.uk
• director_at_nesc.ac.uk
• Thank you for your attentionor for arriving
  early for the next talk ?