nesc review centre report peter clarke deputy director october 11 th 2004
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NeSC Review
Centre Report
Peter ClarkeDeputy Director
October 11th 2004
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Contents
Overview of activities Achievement against ObjectivesIssues raised in last report
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Mission of the NeSC
Mission Statement:
To stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.
To identify and support e-Science projects within and between institutions in Scotland, and to provide the appropriate technical infrastructure and support in order to ensure rapid uptake of e-Science techniques by Scottish scientists.
To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications.
To develop advances in scientific data curation and analysis and to be a primary source of top quality systems and repositories that enable management, sharing and best use of research data.
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Regional role
Training
Events
Outreach & website
Industrypartnership
Visitorsprogramme
Research & projects
Standards
Int’natnl Prestige
Advanced Computing
Infrastructure
Computational Science
Applications Informatics/CS Foundations
JISC liaison
ETF
Report Series
IEC KTN
EGEE
BIRN
DCC
AHM
SC
Activities Map
UK e-ScienceDevelopment
Buildings
Staff
investment
NeSC/eSI
Foundations
Value added
MSc
eDIKT EDINA
EPCC
GRID Summer School
Commerc-ialisation
CS Applications
NGS role
E-Health initiatives
SBRN
GU bioinformatics
research institute
Other projects
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Regional role
Training
Events
Outreach & website
Industrypartnership
Visitorsprogramme
Research & projects
Standards
Int’natnl Prestige
Advanced Computing
Infrastructure
Computational Science
ApplicationsInformatics/CS Foundations
JISC liaison
ETF
Report Series
IEC KTN
EGEE
BIRN
DCC
AHM
SC
UK e-ScienceDevelopment
Buildings
Staff
investment
MSc
eDIKT
EDINA
EPCC
GRID Summer School
Commerc-ialisation
CS Applications
NGS role
E-Health initiatives
SBRN
GU bioinformatics
research institute
Other projects
A.Trew, R.Sinnott
InfrastructureNGS EGEE
D.Fergusson
Training
M.Parsons
Industry commerciali
sation
A.Kenway
eSI events and
outreach
Projects
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P.Stansfield
IEC opportunities
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Achievement against Objectives
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Activity: Event Programme
Objective: Deliver a series of events to develop e-Science understanding, skills and uptake.
Must balance over disciplines & between CS & applicationsMust balance between knowledge propagation & knowledge creationMust satisfying participants and stakeholdersMust be of nationally & internationally recognised value
Achievement: See A.Kenway presentationSummary:
7 events/month sustained ~ 19,500 delegate days Very Broad range of scope and length Attendees from government, healthcare, industry,…..and many more … Most recent:
– JISC WSDL course given at Stafford– Board of SWITCH (SWISS JISC+UKERNA) hosted for fact finding mission– CONDOR 1 week workshop this week
KPIAttendance days £-equivalent (~£4 million)Frequency of return visits Efficiency: Duty Cycle of the Institute premises (70%)
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Some events …
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ACTIVITY: Visitors Programme
Objective: To encourage overseas e-Scientists to come to the UK for short and long term visits for the purpose of catalysing collaboration and cooperation and disseminating knowledge within the UK e-Science community.
Achievement: See A.Kenway talkhttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.htmlExamples:
First 1 year visitor (J.Schopf) to work on NG TeraGrid cooperation Visitors from 4 different institutions bidding with us for future R&D project
KPIVolume of interaction with UK e-Scientists: to be considered & defined: e.g. # seminars/workshops and # attendees (at NeSC and other UK sites)Follow up to visit: # Return visits, collaborative work on software, standards, papers, % of visitors that continue to work with UK e-Science
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Avtivity: Outreach and Website
Objective: To manage a high impact web site which provides a valuable and relevant source of information to the community.
Achievement: See A.Kenway talk
KPIWebsite access statistics
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Activity: Training
Objective: To build on the NeSC tradition of quality training events that accelerate the development and effective uptake of e-research technologies
Achievement: See D.Fergusson talk Delivering training in UK and EuropeEstablishing training for NGSLeading and coordinating EGEE training activityEstablishing relationships with technology developers
KPI:# Training events in yearEvent: Feedback and # participants# Web-site downloads
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Highlight: GGF Summer School
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Activity: Research Programme
Objectives: To establish a number of research projects which deliver significant
advances in key areas of e-Science. They should include a broad range of application domains and will normally be collaborative.
To organise “Newton-Institute” style research events, produce research reports and identify research challenges.
Achievement: VOTES (MRC), BRIDGES+CFG (Centre+Wellcome), QTLGrid (BBSRC)ESLEA (EPSRC+PPARC+MRC)NextGRID (EU FP6)OGSA-DAI/DAIT (see N.C.Hong talk)DCC (EPSRC+JISC)Research visitors
KPI# and value of research projects (both centre and other)# papers & citations in high impact publications# research project website hits
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Context Services Info
Services
InfraServices
SecurityServices
Rsrc Mgmt Services
Execution Mgmt
Services
DataServices
PolicyMgmt
VOMgmt
Access
Integration
Provisioning
Cataloging
BoundaryTraversal
Integrity
Authorization
Authentication
WSRF WSN WSDM
EventMgmt
Trouble-shooting
Discovery
JobMgmt
Logging
ExecutionPlanning
WorkflowMgmt
WorkloadMgmt
Provisioning
ApplicationMgmt
DeploymentConfigurationReservation
Naming
Self MgmtServices
HeterogeneityMgmt
Service LevelAttainment
QoSMgmt
Optimization
OGSA Design Teams
OGSA-WG
Information Service design teamData Service design team
EMS design team
Resource Mgmt design team
Security Service design team
Self Mgmt design team
Core (roadmap) design team
Naming design team
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Activity: Computer Science Research e-Science applications
Objective: To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications.
Achievement: eDIKTNextGRIDProjects: Publishing Scientific Data AMUSE FireGrid, QTLGrid, VOTES, EGEE
KPIRate of interaction between researchers Demonstrated solutions coming from CSCS engagement in challenges from applications
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Activity: Regional Role
Objective: To foster e-Science in the region. Specifically the understanding of the potential of e-Science developments and as well as collaborative ventures to exploit e-Science initiatives.
Achievement: Support for project bidding (QTLGrid, FireGrid, VOTES, GeneExpress) Scottish Bioinformatics Research NetworkFostering “Fundamental computer Science” bid Scottish Executive/Scottish NHS initiatives
KPI# Scottish institutes engaged with NeSC# Regional attendees at events# Joint initiatives with regional institutes
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Activity: National role
Objective: Contribute to leadership & coordination of UK e-Science
Achievement: Everything we do is part of this, particularly events and projects.AHMWeb based facilities (Directors’ meeting secure site, NeSCForge,WIKIs)gridNet, eSTORM(2),M.Atkinson : TAG , OMII SC & WS-I+, ATF (chair)N. Chue Hong OMII TABR. Sinnott, Security for ETFP. Clarke JISC JCSR & JCNNew JISC policy advisor post
KPI???
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Activity: International impact and prestige of the UK.
Objectives: To promote the UK e-Science programme, particularly areas where
the UK is prominent.To identify and establish international collaboration.
Achievement: SC2003 and SC2004 e-Science BoothsGlobus allianceGEON & Simula Scientific advisory boards, Helmholtz reviewEU e-Infrastructures delegation to NAMajor workshops: e.g. Condor (this) weekInternational visits: e.g. SWITCH (last) weekGGF impact
KPIInput: #person days spent on international impact events/meetingsFeedback: Survey of perception of UK e-Science (needs third party)
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Activity: Industry Partnership
Objective: To engage with UK industry in order to build/augment lasting channels of cooperation and through these to facilitate knowledge transfer and optimise UK competitiveness in areas related to e-Science.
Achievement: See M.Parsons talkAll centre projectsFounding institutes’ industrial pre-existing industrial programmes New projects with industry, e.g. ESLEAInter Enterprise Computing KTN bid.
KPI£-investment of industry partners / £-NeSC% partners willing to follow on in applicable projects% projects leading to follow on activities
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Activity: Contribution to ETF
Objective: To contribute expertise to the ETF in order to develop the UK Grid infrastructure.
Achievement: Dave Berry responsible for GT4 evaluationRichard Sinnott + Glasgow staff (security)
KPI???
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Activity: Standards
Objective: To play an active role in standards formation
Achievement: P. Clarke, M.Atkinson: GGF Steering committeeN. Chue Hong (Chair Grid File Access, DAIS) A. Krause M. Antonioletti (DAIS editors)A. Anjomshoaa (Chair JDSL)
KPI# Positions of leadership# Published documents with significant authorship
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Matters arising from last review
OGSA-DAI/DAIT
eSI Overspend
Centre KPIs
Up-to-date Project achievements publicised
Confirmation of project formal end dates
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Matters arising from last review
OGSA-DAI/DAIT Addressed by NCH talk (and discussion)
eSI Overspend
Up-to-date Project achievements publicised
Confirmation of project formal end dates
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Who is Using OGSA-DAI?
OGSA-DAI(http://www.ogsadai.org.uk)
AstroGrid(http://www.astrogrid.org/)
BioSimGrid(http://www.biosimgrid.org/)
BioGrid(http://www.biogrid.jp/)
Bridges(http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/)
eDiaMoND (http://www.ediamond.ox.ac.uk/)
FirstDig(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~firstdig/)
GeneGrid(http://www.qub.ac.uk/escience/projects.php#genegrid)
GEON(http://www.geongrid.org/)
IU RGRBench(http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale/projects/RGR/OGSA-DAI.html)
myGrid(http://www.mygrid.org.uk/)
N2Grid(http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/institute/index.html?project-80=80)
ODD-Genes(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/oddgenes/) OGSA-WebDB
(http://www.gtrc.aist.go.jp/dbgrid/)
MCS(http://www.isi.edu/~deelman/MCS/)
INWA(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/projects/inwa/)
GridMiner(http://www.gridminer.org/)
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OGSA-DAIBiologicalSciences
PhysicalSciences
Commercial Applications
ComputerSciences
• FirstDig
• I NWA
• Bridges • AstroGrid
• BioSimGrid• BioGrid
• eDiamond• myGrid
• ODD- Genes
• N2Grid
• GEON
• MCS
• I U RGBench
• OGSA Web- DB
• GeneGrid
• GridMiner
OGSA-DAIBiologicalSciences
PhysicalSciences
Commercial Applications
ComputerSciences
• FirstDig
• I NWA
• Bridges • AstroGrid
• BioSimGrid• BioGrid
• eDiamond• myGrid
• ODD- Genes
• N2Grid
• GEON
• MCS
• I U RGBench
• OGSA Web- DB
• GeneGrid
• GridMiner
OGSA-DAI : Project classification
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Matters arising from last review
OGSA-DAI/DAIT
eSI OverspendNow reduced to £1.5k. See A.Kenway
Centre KPIs
Up-to-date Project achievements publicised
Confirmation of project formal end dates
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Matters arising from last review
OGSA-DAI take up
eSI Overspend
Centre KPIsSee objective review in previous slidesDo we have KPIs
Some very good ones Others – early iterations
Up-to-date Project achievements publicised
Confirmation of project formal end dates