oerc and the south east regional e-research consortium
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OeRC and the South East Regional e-Research Consortium. Anne Trefethen, David Wallom. Overview. OeRC Projects Reuse Oxford-Reading joint position. The OeRC. A new department within the Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
OeRC and the South East Regional e-Research
ConsortiumAnne Trefethen, David Wallom
Overview
• OeRC
• Projects
• Reuse
• Oxford-Reading joint position
The OeRC• A new department within the Mathematical, Physical and Life
Sciences Division– Remit to connect across the divisions to use innovative computational
and information science in multidisciplinary collaborations
• Engagement based on collaborative work– Support current projects– Expand e-Research into other research areas
• Done through...– Shared posts– Working collaboratively in areas of research– Making our areas of expertise accessible– Helping prepare new grant applications– Providing supporting e-Infrastructure– Connecting with other groups regionally, nationally and internationally
ClimatePrediction.net
• 10 million years of climate models run.
• ~300,000 registered volunteers donating compute resources
• New projects sponsored by Microsoft to demonstrate regional as well as global modelling of two areas of interest, North West USA and Southern Africa.
Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities
(BVREH)
– creating a workspace and tools for humanities research.
• C18th Document
workspace• Digital pens, Access Grid• Research Discovery
Service• Ancient Document
workspace
OptIPputer
• Linking materials (Oxford) and biomedical (San Diego) expertise for shared visualisation and electron microscopy using world leading facilities
• Using high performance UK Lightpath network to establish dedicated connection with suitable QOS
Cancer and Cardiac Imaging
• Develop an architecture, and prototype to create dynamically configurable research environments
• Develop algorithms for locating the mesorectal facia for improved ability for successful surgery
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Reusing Tools and Technologies within OeRC and SeReRC
• Harvest and re-use technologies and tools from across e-Research projects– Development of volunteer computing infrastructure from CPDN for other areas
including drug discovery, transport and other public interest science – Tools and techniques developed for Virtual Research Environments from
BVREH and Integrative Biology can be reused, e.g. Archaeology, History, Linguistics.
– Architecture for remote microscopy of electron microscopes can be repurposed for other imaging equipment, e.g. optical microscopy
– Algorithms and toolkits for colorectal cancer identification can be used for other image shape based projects, e.g. Study of Ancient documents.
• Development of programming techniques and algorithms to fully utilise hybrid systems arriving due to multi-core and easily available accelerator technology
Oxford-Reading Joint position
• Already benefiting from inter institutional collaboration
• Completing survey of research computing activities within Oxford
• User outreach– Development of usage and possible collaboration
• Development of campus grid infrastructure– VM based node for departmental condor pools– Accounting infrastructure using GOLD
Conclusion
• SEReRC is of strategic importance to the OeRC and the region
• Reusing developed tools and technologies will give significant benefits to new research areas
• Sharing staff between collaborating institutions will give head start for collaborative projects