Supporting education and research

Supporting Education and Research

Peter ClarkeNational e-Science Centre

University of Edinburgh

Thanks toSarah Porter, Bill Oliver, Maia Dimitrova, Sara Hassan

Chris Rushbridge, Liz LyonNeil Geddes, Stephen PicklesDavid Salmon, Jeremy SharpShantenu Jha, Matt HarveyLeslie Carr, John MacColl

Kevin TanDean Jones

Michael Rains

Overview of JISC

Infrastructure Support

Programmes and initiatives

Mission

To provide world-class

leadership in the innovative

use of ICT, to support

education and research

JISC Strategic Aims(slightly shortened)

• To …enable UK education and research activities to be world class through the use of ICT

• To … enable institutions to make economic, efficient and legally competent use of ICT…

• To … provide positive, personalised learning experiences and aid student progression

• To develop … partnerships with organisations in UK and abroad

• To advise, inform and implement the strategies of Government, Funding Councils and RCs

Schools FurtherEducation

HigherEducation

ResearchCouncils

Responsibilities to

Teaching and Learning Research

Infrastructure

Services & Structure

Content

Income

JISC Structure

JISC Content Services committee

JISC Organisational Support committee

JISC Integrated Information Environment committee

JISC Learning & Teaching committee

JISC Networking committee

JISC Support of Research committee

Audit committeeNominations committee

Remuneration committee

JISCBoard

Expenditure

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SLA

Super JANET

JISC provide budget to UKERNA

JISC guide UKERNA through the JCN

UKERNA provide and manage JANET

Present incarnation is SJ4

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R&D NetworkingSJ4 had a limited R&D network

UKLight is a pervasive network dedicated to R&D Research applications needing networks Network researchers

… augments SuperJANET-4 …allowed UK to join global infrastructure

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Particle Physics and Particle Physics and the Large Hadron the Large Hadron

ColliderCollider

UK: CCLRC - RALNL: Nikhef

DE: Karlesruhe

US: Fermilab

Jodrell BankUK

OnsalaSweden

MedicinaItaly

TorunPoland

EffelsbergGermany

WesterborkNetherlands

JIVE

RadioRadioAstronomyAstronomy

visualization engine long term

storage

CSAR

checkpoint files

visualization datacompresse

d video

steering: control and status

Enhancing HPC capabilityEnhancing HPC capability

HPCx

Other users

– Integrative Biology piloting use for e-Health

– 2 Network research projects: 46PaQ & MASTS

– Expressions of interest from projects in•

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Controlled access to network monitoring and measurement information by end users

Visibility

Responsiveness to additional network service requirements

Flexibility

Protection of interests of teaching & learning and research sectors

Separability

Ability to increase bandwidth at controllable cost

Scalability

Improve by building in more resilience

Reliability

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flexible transmission platform

IP production network

special purposebandwidth

test-bed(s)

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SJ5 Status

• Contracts by end 2005

• Rollout “complete” by end of 2006

• Working with the Regional Networks to complement SJ5

As (e-)Researchers we should be very happy

there is no reason any research domain should be limited by wide area network connectivity (within reason)

The National Grid Service&

Grid Operations Support Centre

Funded by JISC & CCLRC

The National Grid Service

Core sitesLeeds

Manchester Oxford CCLRC

Partner sites Bristol Cardiff

Lancaster

Access to HPC facilities

HPCxCSAR

Grid Operations Support Centre

• Helpdesk

• NGS Administration

• e-Science Certificate Authority

• A range of infrastructure services for the NGS:

• Liaison and co-ordination with OMII, NeSC, LCG/EGEE, TeraGrid,...

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NGS UserRegistrations

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Number of jobs by project

• 1117 nano-particles• 772 protein folding• 774 protein structure

prediction• 582 lattice-boltmann

simulations• 555 radiation transport • 255 Neutron data analysis• 242 Godiva• 228 IXI (medical imaging)• 228 Biological membranes• 171 micromagnetics• 123 Integrative Biology

Integrative Biology

Current flow through ion channels

Fibre orientation ensures correct spread of excitation

Contraction of individual cells

MRI image of a beating heart

Multiscale modelling of the heart

NGS is used extensively to implement grid enabled versions of existing heart and tumour models.

ConvertGrid

2001 Census

ONS Experian Postcode

Convert Tables

ConvertGrid Web Service

Client 1 Website

Client 2 Command Line Client

Athens authentication

CommonGIS Applet

X509

Query Web Service

X509

Services to automate extraction, geography conversion and fusion of aggregate, geography-based datasets.

Postcode Sectors

Wards

Powered by OGSA-DAI on NGS

The SPICE Project:The SPICE Project:Showcasing SuperJANET Showcasing SuperJANET

and the NGS / HPCand the NGS / HPCat IGrid and SC’05at IGrid and SC’05

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JISC Programmes

British Library/JISC Online Audio Usability Evaluation Workshop Core Middleware Infrastructure Core Middleware: Technology Development Programme Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme Digital Prreservation and Records Management Digital Repositories Programme Digitisation Programme Distributed e-Learning Strand                               e-Learning Programme e-Learning Tools Projects - Phase 2 Exchange for Learning (X4L) Phase 2 Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme                                 Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme JISC Framework Programme JISC-SURF Partnering on Copyright                                 Network Development Programme                                 Portals Programme Presentation Programme                               Semantic Grid and Autonomic Computing Programme Shared Services Programme Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions                   Virtual Research Environments Programme

Virtual Research Environments

• Geographical location & disciplinary boundaries are more and more irrelevant to large research projects

• 15 Projects

ISME: Virtual Interaction for running Remote Experiments

Manchester, Cardiff, CCLRC

Silchester Roman Town : A VRE for Archeologists

Core Middleware Programme• CM means:

- Authentication,- Authorisation,- Identifiers - Directories

• Centred on Shibboleth deployment for a unified authentication and authorisation service

• Widely adopted (US, Switzerland, Australia, Finland)

• 21 projects/groups funded to assist Shibboleth up-take

• Shibboleth “Federation” started

• Demonstrations during AHM

Aug 2003

Start of current Athens contract

Jul 2004 JISC Core Middleware Development Programme begins

Nov 2004

First trial UK Shibboleth infrastructure in place

Nov 2004

JISC town meeting on Shibboleth initiative

Dec 2004

Athens/Shibboleth gateway available for testing

Feb 2005

Core Middleware Assisted Take-up Service begins

Apr 2005

Core Middleware Early Adopters begin work

Jul 2005 UK Shibboleth federation policy documentation available

Apr 2006

Fully tested access management system based on Shibboleth available to UK HE and FE

Jul 2006 Break point in current Athens contract (potentially renewable until July 2008)

Jul 2008Last end date for current Athens contract

• Grid Shibboleth Permis is still a development area

• Several projects working in this space

• DYCOM

• ESP-GRID

• FAME-PERMIS

• DYVOSE

• Recent Globus Shibboleth announcement ……….

e-Frameworks Programme

• Everyone (e-Learning, Research, Core middleware,…) are all developing services

Domain Services

User Agents (Tools, Applications, Portlets, Rich Clients, etc.)

Learning Services

Research Services

Administration Services

Common Services

Etc…

Resource Services

Security Services

Messaging Services

Etc…

Users

The Frameworks programme is attempt to engender a coherent approach across all JISC programmes where possible

• Aim is to avoid unnecessary– Duplication– Incompatibility– Re-inventing services several times differently– Re-inventing use patterns

• Based upon– Reference models– Common services– Information source– Disseminating best practice

• Message from programme managers is Need input of e-Science community

Please engage with the work in the next months

Probably hold a workshop for frameworks and e-Science soon

Digital Repositories Programme• A Digital repository supports mechanisms to import, export,

identify, store and retrieve digital assets. – written– images– Audio-video objects– Data sets– Learning material– Presentations

• We all have obligations in respect of:– Research output– Theses– Open access– ….

• 21 projects supported by JISC

Supporting education and research

Institutional Repository for Research AssessmentInstitutional Repository for Research Assessment

Institutional Repositoryresearchers,

academics, professors

Institutional Research Management Systemvice chancellors, deans,

senior managers

Panel 1Panel 2 Panel n

HEFCE RAE SystemIn each institution, the

researchers simply select their best articles from the

Institutional Repository. These are routed through to

the institution’s Research Management System which

prepares the final submission for RAE 2008. Finally, the

RAE panels may access pre- or postprints from the

Repository.

RAE submission sub-collection

Supporting education and research

The National Centre for Text Mining

www.nactem.ac.uk

• provide text mining services to UK academic community

• broaden awareness and usage of text mining

• promote best practice

• influence research directions

• develop links with commercial suppliers and users

Objectives

NaCTeM Services

• services for processing of document collections (Autumn 2006)– available as web services– processing performed on the Grid (NGS)

• service exemplars (Spring 2007)– demonstrate the effectiveness of text mining– act as reference implementations

• consultancy and advice (Autumn 2006)– guidance on evaluation of software and resources

• education and dissemination (ongoing)– tutorials, workshops, symposia, etc

Digital Curation Centre

• Joint JISC – eScience initiative to address growing issue of responsibly managing the lifecycle of important (and expensive) data

• Four Consortium partner institutions: – University of Edinburgh (lead, EDINA/NeSC/Informatics) – University of Glasgow (HATII)– UKOLN, at University of Bath– CCLRC (Rutherford and Daresbury Laboratories)

Recent items of note• Prolific research output

• Advisory Service Help Desk – 284 calls in 6 months

• Digital Curation Manual – 1st chapter published , 45 commissioned– “role of open source software in digital preservation”

• Workshop series– Persistent identifiers– Long term curation in repositories– Cost models– Long term curation in medical databases– Site visits

• Associates Network and Forum

• 1st International Conference

• International Journal of Digital Curation

Peer reviewed & conference papers 18

Invited & keynote talks 14

Other talks and papers 9

Workshops given or key participation 15

Other activities and interactions 41

Visitors and seminars 19

Outputs in last 6 months

1st DCC International Conference

• Location - Bath UK

• 29-30 September 2005

• Keynote speakers

Clifford Lynch CNI

Graham Cameron European Bio-informatics Institute

• DCC Research update

• Social highlights

Associates NetworkGoals

Develop understanding, share best practice, advance research, promote recognition, develop consensus

Membership - 204

International groups, national bodies, industry partners, funders, research groups, HEIs, FEIs, individuals……

Benefits

Early access to R&D outputs, advisory services, training, input to definition and design, community participation

Discussion Forum www.dcc.ac.uk

CCLRC UKOLN

UofGUofE

CMS-Bristol

NIEeS

RG

Durham

WT-CFGLeicester

ICMaastricht

Oxford

Dutch NASwiss NAUrbino

UNC

Salzburg

SDSC

NEODC

CEH

RI

NCS

RLG

Innogen

NHS

Capri NTUAINRIAHUJUPCMax-

PlanckMIMAS

IASSIST

LDCACM

Data Archive

EDGGridPPEGEE

CambridgeLeicester

Jodrell Bank

DLI (US)DPC

DELOS

UNC

ESA

NASANARACNESESARLG

BNSC

TU Vienna UPenn

EBIMRC HGU

KyotoUSC

INRIA

GSK

Roslin

IBM Almaden

JHUCSIRO

CaltechJHU

CSIRO

CDSESO

OCLC

AHDSMicrosoft

IBMOracle

BTSTK

BADCBODC

ESO

IVOA

ResearchCouncils

HEIs&

FE

ResearchInstitutes

InternationalCollaborations

StandardsBodies

DPC

MIMAS

ILRT

Council forMuseums, Libraries

& ArchivesRDN. OCLC

So’ton

OAI

NOF

NLA

NeSC

… and those things not mentioned

• EDINA and MIMAS data services

• e-Learning

• Content services and subscriptions

• Regional Support Centres

• Portals programme

• Visualisation Support Network

… thankyou