UK e-Science Programme

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UK e-Science Programme
Neil GeddesPPARC Director, e-Science
e-Science is about global collaboration in key
areas of science, and the next generation of
infrastructure that will enable it.
John
Taylor
Director General of Research Councils

Office of Science and Technology The Grid
intends to make access to computing power,
scientific data repositories and experimental
facilities as easy as the Web makes access to
information. Tony Blair, 2002
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UK e-Science Programme

• First Phase 2001 2004
• Application Projects
• 74M
• All areas of science and engineering
• Core Programme
• 15M 20M (DTI)
• Collaborative industrial projects

• Second Phase 2004 2006
• Application Projects
• 96M
• All areas of science and engineering
• Core Programme
• 16M ?
• Core Grid Middleware
• Data Curation
• Industrial projects

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UK e-Science Projects First Phase

• Particle Physics and Astronomy (PPARC) - Mission
  Critical
• GRIDPP
• ASTROGRID
• Grid-1D
• Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC)
  Pilots, new ways of working
• Comb-e-Chem
• DAME
• DiscoveryNet
• GEODISE
• myGrid
• RealityGrid

• Natural Environment Applications (NERC)
  -Deployment exemplar
• Climateprediction.com
• GODIVA Oceanographic Grid
• e-Minerals Molecular Environmental Grid
• NERC DataGrid
• GENIE

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UK e-e-Science ProjectsFirst phase

• Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BBSRC)
• Biomolecular Grid
• Proteome Annotation Pipeline
• High-Throughput Structural Biology
• Global Biodiversity

• Medical Applications (MRC) - Exemplars
• Biology of Ageing (with BBSRC)
• Sequence and Structure Data
• Molecular Genetics
• Cancer Management (with PPARC)
• Clinical e-Science Framework
• Neuroinformatics Modeling Tools

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SuperJANET4
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UK Grid for Particle Physics
Phase-2 25 TFLOP UK Grid for Particle
Physics
GridPP www.gridpp.ac.uk
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UK Core Programme

• UK e-Science Grid and e-Science Institute
• Training programme, Research seminars
• www.nesc.ac.uk
• Network of e-Science Centres
• Core e-Science grid
• Regional expertise
• Grid resources (Access Grid)
• Industrial projects
• Support for e-Science Projects
• Grid Support Centre
• Grid Network Team
• National certificate Authority
• Development of Generic Grid Middleware
• Grid Grand Challenge Projects (IRCs)
• Outreach and International Involvement
• DTIs GO programme

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Industrial Involvement

• Over 80 UK companies participating
• Over 30M industrial contributions
• IT Companies
• Sun, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SGI, HP, Fujitsu,
  Cisco
• Major End User Companies
• Rolls Royce, Data Systems and Solutions,
  BAESystems, Shell, Siemens, GSK, Astra-Zeneca,
  Pfizer, Merck, Schlumberger, BT,
• SMEs
• NAG, Cybula, Compusys, Mesophotonics, Fluent,
  Epistemics, Mirada, .

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Phase 2

• From Prototype to production
• Integration of Particle Physics/Core
  programme/other grids
• UK Grid ? TFLOP 10 TFLOP HPC
• Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE)
• -gt Production system for LHC
• Grid Operations Centre, CA, Security Operations,
  Network Monitoring
• e-Science Institute
• Core Middleware engineering
• Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
• National Data Curation Centre
• e-Science Exemplars/New Opportunities
• Medium/long term Computer Science research
• Outreach and International involvement

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Campus Grid
UK e-Science Grid(s)
UK e-Science Production Grid(s) (SLAs)
Inter campus (VO) Grid
Almost by definition, a successful Grid or
e-Infrastructure will only own a small part of
the available (intgerated) resources
Campus Grid
Campus Grid
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Looking Beyond 2006

• Persistent UK e-Science Research Grid
• Integrated with international grids
• Grid Operations/Support Centre
• Core Infrastructure
• UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute
• National e-Science Institute
• UK Digital Curation Centre
• AccessGrid Support Service
• e-Science/Grid collaboratories Legal Service
• International Standards Activity

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Access Policies

• Still a developing area
• GridPP
• Authentication
• Anyone in a collaborating institute can get a UK
  certificate
• Any valid (DataGrid) cert can authenticate to the
  resources on GridPP
• Authorisation
• Authority to use the resources is controlled by
  local policy
• Based on the users Virtual Organisations
  (experiments)
• LCG access policy
• Resources construct local authorisations based on
  VOs they choose to allow/support
• Not fully yet there
• Must include accounting in future

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Access Policies -2

• Core e-Science Grid
• Authentication
• The UK CA Policy document says....
• "The e-Science CA issues certificates for
  e-Science activities funded by the UK Research
  Councils. The CA will issue personal, server and
  service certificates.
• Authorisation
• Core grid nodes
• Any scientists have access via a UK Digital
  Certificate.
• At the start it will be on a first come basis.
• More formal policy if demand is overwhelming
  (e.g. HPCX)
• Other resources Currently informal
• Definite commitment in future
• SLA for production Grid

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Issues

• Greatest barriers to wide-scale e-infrastructure
  are not (only) technical, but human and
  bureaucratic.
• Natural resistance among system managers, group
  leaders, Institute Heads etc to "give away"
  resources to people outside their institutions.
• Manifests itself in very rigid security and
  acceptable use policies
• E.g. only users who attend the helpdesk in person
  and sign a form can be given access
• This paranoia is enhanced by legitimate concerns
  about hackers.
• Complicated by project based funding for many
  resources
• Often you are simply not allowed to share the
  resources by the agency which paid for them.
• Much privacy, IPR and data protection
  legislation, tends to inhibit openess in general,
  and filesharing mechanisms in particular.
• Collaborative projects are good for scientific
  advance, but bad for making money by capturing
  IPR.

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Simple Example

• TeraGyroid prize winning demo at SC2003
• Grid linked UK Supercomputers and remote
  visualisation centres
• UK CSAR (Manchester U.) HPCX (Daresbury Lab.)
• US ETF (Illinois, Pittsburgh, San Diego)
• Allowed scientists to interact with the computer
  models as they evolved in real time.
• Lattice Boltzmann fluid flow calculations
• Demod for 72 hours !
• Won a prize
• Can not do it right now !

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Conclusions

• UK e-Science programme now in its 3rd year
• Broad take up across science and industry
• Moving from prototype to Production
• There is demand for common tools/services
• Common goals help to drive access sharing
• Real issues around security and IPR
• Sometimes connected to current lack of robustess