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UK e-Science
EGEE Second Users’ Forum
Dave BerryDeputy Director for Research
with apologies fromMalcolm Atkinson
www.nesc.ac.uk10th May 2007
OverviewHistory of e-Science in UK > 6 years
Three Significant Strengths Established
Communities & Breadth
Science projects (70% of funding,Demanding drivers)
e-Infrastructure(hardware,
software & training)
Defining e-Science
e-Science: Systematic Support for Collaborative Research using advanced ICT
Multi-disciplinary, Multi-Site & Multi-NationalAll disciplines contribute & benefitEnabling wider engagementBuilding on and demanding advances in Computing Science
Using advances in computing to support research, design, diagnosis
Dates back 50 yearsPrevalent in branches of biology >30 yearsPrevalent in Engineering for >40 years
New emphasis on collaboration, sharing & interdisciplinarity
UK e-Science
e- Science and the Grid‘e- Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’
‘e- Science will change the dynamic of the way science is undertaken.’
J ohn TaylorDirector General of Research Councils
Offi ce of Science and Technology
From presentation by Tony Hey
GGF5 Edinburgh
UK e-Science Diversity
Thriving CommunityAll disciplines & all Research CouncilsIndustry & AcademiaMany universities & research institutesUK e-Science All Hands MeetingsProductive collaboration
e-Infrastructure
A shared resourceThat enables science, research, engineering, medicine, industry, …It will improve UK / European / … productivity
Lisbon Accord 2000 E-Science Vision SR2000 –
John Taylor
Commitment by UK government
Sections 2.23-2.25
Always there c.f. telephones, transport,
power
OSI report www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/
OSI/index.html
http://www.allhands.org.uk/index.html
EdinburghEdinburgh
Activity
Slide from Dr Anna Kenway
Theme 3: Adoption of e-Research Technologies
Theme 4: Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes
Theme 5: Distributed Programming Abstractions
Theme 6: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities
Edinburgh
CardiffCardiff
BristolBristol
LancasterLancaster
WestminsterWestminster
National Grid Service and partners
EdinburghEdinburgh
YorkYork
ManchesterManchester
DidcotDidcot
CCLRC RutherfordAppleton LaboratoryCCLRC RutherfordAppleton Laboratory
LeedsLeeds
SheffieldSheffield
UK e-Infrastructure
LHC
I SI S TS2
HPCx + HECtoR
Users get common access, tools, inf ormation, Nationally supported services, through NGS
I ntegratedinternationally
VRE, VLE, IE
Regional and Campus grids
Community Grids
Slide: Neil Geddes
GridPP
GridPP www.gridpp.ac.uk
LHCb
ATLAS
CMS
CMS
e-Science Centres in the UK
LeicesterLeicester
LeSCLeSC
BirminghamBirmingham
White Rose GridWhite Rose Grid
BristolBristol
LancasterLancaster
ReadingReading
OxfordOxford
EdinburghEdinburgh
BelfastBelfast
CambridgeCambridgeCCLRC DaresburyCCLRC Daresbury
ManchesterManchester
UCLUCL
NewcastleNewcastle
SouthamptonSouthampton
CardiffCardiff
CCLRC RALCCLRC RAL
Access GridSupport CentreAccess GridSupport Centre
Digital Curation CentreDigital Curation Centre
National GridService
National GridService
National Centre fore-Social Science
National Centre fore-Social Science
National Centre forText Mining
National Centre forText Mining
National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science
National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science
Open MiddlewareInfrastructure Institute
Open MiddlewareInfrastructure Institute
GlasgowGlasgow
YorkYorkLeedsLeeds
SheffieldSheffield
Coordinated by:Directors’ Forum
& NeSC
OMII-UK nodes
EdinburghEdinburgh
EPCC & National e-Science CentreEPCC & National e-Science Centre
ManchesterManchester
School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Manchester
School of Computer ScienceUniversity of Manchester
SouthamptonSouthampton
School of Electronics andComputer Science
University of Southampton
School of Electronics andComputer Science
University of Southampton
OMII-UK Software
Software catalogue
Software repository
Special Product Lines
Community deposits
SE QA pipeline
Community software stacks
Commissionedprogramme
Software spotted on safarior by Product or Area Liaisons (PALs) Data
WorkflowPortal
Service registry
Infrastructure and Standards Community
User Community
ForeignDistributions
Open Source
OMII-BPEL
Digital Curation Centre and partners
GlasgowGlasgow
Humanities Advanced Technology and
Information Institute
Humanities Advanced Technology and
Information Institute
BathBathUKOLN (formerly UK Office for Library Networking)
UKOLN (formerly UK Office for Library Networking)
WarringtonWarrington
DidcotDidcot
Rutherford Appleton (Didcot) and Daresbury
(Warrington) Laboratories
Rutherford Appleton (Didcot) and Daresbury
(Warrington) Laboratories
EdinburghEdinburgh
Database Research Group, School of Informatics
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property
and Technology LawEDINA
National e-Science Centre
Database Research Group, School of Informatics
AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property
and Technology LawEDINA
National e-Science Centre
National Centre for e-Social Science
ColchesterColchester
University of EssexUniversity of Essex
LancasterLancaster
BristolBristol
LeedsLeeds
University of ManchesterUniversity of Manchester
ManchesterManchester
NottinghamNottingham
LondonLondon
OxfordOxford
AberdeenAberdeen
The NERC Success
Professor Robert GurneyDirector, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading
The NERC e-Science experience 11 papers in NatureEnthusiastic uptake of ensemble methods
climateprediction.net Users Worldwide>300,000 users total (90% MS Windows): >60,000 active~17 million model-years simulated (as of September '06)
~180,000 completed simulations
The world's largest climate modelling supercomputer!(NB: a black dot is one or more computers running climateprediction.net)
Slide: Robert Gurney
Impact:New ScienceUnderstanding of scienceEngaging schoolsBBC follow on
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NERC centres
SwindonSwindon ReadingReadingUniversity of ReadingUniversity of Reading
CambridgeCambridge
National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science, University of Cambridge
National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science, University of Cambridge
David De Roure
Slide: Dave De Roure & Jeremy Frey
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PatientHome-mobile-clinic
via TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper
Diabetes Specialist / Other Specialist Nurses
Home-mobile-clinicvia TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper
Dietitian
DiabeticianHome-mobile-clinic
via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper
Biochemist
GPHome-mobile-clinic
via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper
Various Clinical Specialists (Distributed)e.g. Ophthalmologist, Podiatrist, Vascular
Surgeons, Renal Specialists, Wound clinic, Foot care clinic, Neurologists, Cardiologists
ILLNESS
REFERRAL REFERRAL
REFERRAL
CASE
Community Nurses / Health Visitors
VARIABLESACCESSMATRIX
Healthcare @ Home
“Wellbeing” the global-scale killer app., Sir Robin Saxby Oct. 2006
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resolving the ‘neural code’ from the timing of action potential activity
determining ion channel contribution to the timing of action potentials
examining integration within networks of differing dimensions
Understanding the brain may be the greatest
informatics challenge of the 21st century
Source: Colin Ingram
New EPSRC project. CARMEN
late 2006 - 2009http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/carmen/
FireGrid
PiperPiperAlphaAlpha
Mont BlancMont Blanc
KobeKobe
Kings CrossKings Cross WTCWTC
Logging
FireGrid Architecture
Routine & Initial Workflows
sensor validation & calibration, building and
people status & event detection
Building data Pre-computedscenarios
Escalated Workflows
From PCs to teraflops
Displays from sensors and simulations
C&CView selected
status displays & user control panels
Personal & TeamPreference data
5 People
A C
D
E
B
A C
D
E
B
A C
D
E
B
Sensors & Actuators
Temp, CO, smoke,displacement/strain, vibration/acoustic,
systems status
Primary monitoring & gateways
between sensor nets & grid
Workflowselection& steering
Data-flowselection& actuation
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SouthEasternEurope, 10%
SouthWesternEurope, 12% Italy, 16%
France, 18%
UKI, 29%NorthernEurope, 7%
CentralEurope, 4%
AsiaPacific, 2%
GermanySwitzerland, 1%
Russia, 1%
WISDOM deployment : wisdom.eu-egee.fr
Total amount of CPU provided by EGEE
federation
Countries with nodes contributing to the data challenge WISDOM
•10•UK•1•Poland•1•Germany
•1•Taiwan•2•Netherlands•9•France
•7•Spain•13•Italy•1•Cyprus
•2•Russia•1•Israel•1•Croatia
•1•Romania•3•Greece•3•Bulgaria
•sites•country•sites•country•sites•country
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DAME/BROADEN http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/dame/
• Aims to manage >1Tb per year of Aero Engine vibration and maintenance data.
• Interlinks with search and reasoning services.
• Defined and evaluated a distributed search system.
• GSI enabled secure engine performance simulation
• CBR advisor for diagnostic engineer• A data architecture defined based on
Globus and SRB.
• BROADEN DTI Project (£3.9M)• Spun out technology exploited
through Cybula Ltd., Oxford Biosignals and DS&S.
• Successful mid-term demonstrator well received by Rolls Royce
• White Rose Grid: experience of building & using production Grids
• In Grid Blue Print 2 edition 2
• Jim Austin (Comp Sci, York)• 4 Universities and institutes• 3 Companies
Aircraft healthcare diagnosis
Slide: Carole Goble, Jim Fleming & Jim Austin
Take Home
UK e-Science investment has built three interdependent strengths:
Communities & collaborationProjects delivering & demandinge-Infrastructure: organisation, support & technology
Three success factors for projectsEngagement & value for all participantsCreativity & insight addressing a well-posed challengeTechnology adoption and innovation
Progress in research domains is the driverIntegrate whatever technology you needInvent new technology only if you have to