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E-Science: Achievements, Challenges and new Opportunities
Fifth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
Malcolm Atkinson
Director e-Science Institute & e-Science Envoy
www.nesc.ac.uk19th September 2006
Overview
Celebrate Five Years of SuccessThree Great Strengths Established
Welcome New ProjectsOpportunities
Work togetherShape e-Science & e-Infrastructure
E-Science: Systematic Support for Collaborative Research
Multi-disciplinary, Multi-Site & Multi-NationalAll disciplines contribute & benefitEnabling wider engagementBuilding with advances in Computing Science
UK e-Science Success
Thriving CommunityAll disciplines & all Research CouncilsIndustry & AcademiaMany universities & research institutesUK e-Science All Hands MeetingsProductive collaboration
Essential Collaboration
CollaborationRequires Commitment and StrategyA challenge to build and maintainWe have done it repeatedlyCan we capture and clone the recipes?Can we support it well for all research?
New Patterns of Communication
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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
+2 years
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EdinburghEdinburgh
+5 years
Collaboration Pioneer
Professor Dan Atkins
Director of the Office of Shared Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
The NSF vision of Cyberinfrastructure supporting e-Research, e-learning and engagement
09:00 Wednesday
Archaeology & e-Science
Professor Michael Fulford
Archaeology, University of Reading
Silchester Roman Town: the challenges, aspirations and experience of developing a VRE for Archaeology
9:45 Wednesday
UK e-Science Success
Significant outputs from projectsResearch resultsCommercial impactOutreach and international influence
The NERC Success
Professor Robert GurneyDirector, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading
The NERC e-Science experience On next!
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Predicting Climate ChangeThrough Volunteer Computing
University of Oxford
Department of Atmospheric Physics
climateprediction.net
6th September 2006
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)
› Construct in silico experiments, find and adapt others, manage the experiment lifecycle
› Taverna Workflow workbench› OGSA-DQP› Semantic Technologies› Williams-Beuren Syndrome,
Grave’s Disease, Trypanosomiasis in cattle.
› OMII-UK Node, GRIMOIRE Registry, Taverna Workflow workbench
› 12000+ Downloads of Taverna› Wide transfer to BBSRC (e-Fungi,
ISPIDER, ComparaGrid) & MRC projects (PsyGrid, CLEF, CLEFS)
› Semantic Grid pioneer› WBS gene identification› Outstanding international links› Great deal of open source s/w› Links into BOSC & HGMP› KT to BT, ComparaGrid, OntoGrid,
BBSRC Systems Biology Centre, MIASGrid, Rice Institute etc
• Carole Goble (Comp Sci, Manchester)• 7 Universities and institutes (incl. EBI)• 8 Companies
Middleware for data intensive in silico biology by bioinformaticians
In silico biology http://www.mygrid.org.uk
› Design, develop and implement an advanced infrastructure to support real-time processing, interpretation, integration, visualization and mining of vast amounts of time critical data generated by high throughput devices.
› Data mining, text mining› Environmental monitoring,
bioinformatics
› InforSense, GSK, Oracle› 2003: Discovery Net in Action:
Fighting SARS in China › 2002: Supercomputing 2002
Most Innovative Data Intensive Application Award
› 2002: KDD CUP 2002 Scientific Text Mining Awards
Yike Guo (Comp Sci, Imperial)•1 university
http://www.discovery-on-the.net/
Using GRID Resources
ScientificInformationScientific
InformationScientific Discover
y
In Real Time
Literature
Literature
Databases
Databases
OperationalData
OperationalData
ImagesImages
InstrumentData
InstrumentData
Real Time Data
Integration
Dynamic ApplicationIntegration
Discovery Services
Integrative Knowledge Management
Service Workflow
High Throughput Informatics
UK-China e-Science Workshop, China
SIMDAT SIMDAT
Workflow Warehousing and Semantic Authoring
DAME 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
UK e-Science Success
Reliable e-Infrastructure 24*7Foundations well establishedExtending in Function, Scale & UbiquityNGSE-Science CentresSpecialised support centres
AHRC Support @ Kings, Text Mining, 2*NERC centres, NCeSS
Data ServicesOMII-UKE-Science InstituteDCCJISC Virtual Research EnvironmentsJISC e-Framework
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Edinburgh
CardiffCardiff
BristolBristol
LancasterLancaster
WestminsterWestminster
National Grid Service and partners
EdinburghEdinburgh
YorkYorkManchesterManchester
DidcotDidcot
CCLRC RutherfordAppleton LaboratoryCCLRC RutherfordAppleton Laboratory
+2.5 years
UK e-Infrastructure
LHC
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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
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Applications: 2
Systems Biology
H. Woo et al, Phys Rev B 72 064437 (2005)
Example: La2-xSrxNiO4
Neutron Scattering
Climate modelling
Econometric analysis
JISC e-Infrastructure & Projects
Professor Dave De Roure
Head of Grid and Pervasive Computing in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton
e-Research the JISC way
14:30 Thursday
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OxfordOxford
NeSCNeSC
BelfastBelfast
CambridgeCambridgeDaresburyDaresbury
ManchesterManchester
LondonLondon
NewcastleNewcastle
SouthamptonSouthampton
CardiffCardiff
e-Science Centrese-Science Centres
RALRAL
LeicesterLeicester
LondonLondon
BirminghamBirmingham
YorkYork
BristolBristol
LancasterLancaster
ReadingReading
Centres of ExcellenceCentres of Excellence
Access GridSupport CentreAccess GridSupport Centre
Other CentresOther Centres
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+ ~2 years
e-Science Centres in the UK Coordination & Leadership:NeSC & e-Science
Directors’ Forum
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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
+3 years
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Software• Provide guidance to the broad UK e-Science community• Disseminate your e-Science software to a global communitySupport• Software support and training in using e-Science software• Provide collaborative mechanisms to support the community• Define, contribute and disseminate best practice and standardsSustainability• Provide a best of breed software solution• Partner to provide a sustainable future.
‘software and support to enable a sustained future for the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators’
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Visit the OMII-UK stand…
• Tell us about the software you use or produce– Register it on the website and get a travel mug!
• Tell us about the e-Science you do now and what you would like to do in the future– Complete our on-line or paper survey
• See demonstrations of OMII-UK software– Job execution, scheduling and service discovery– Workflow between different data sources– Data querying, federation and transformation
For more information see www.omii.ac.uk/AHM2006
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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
+3 years?
a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation
Digital Curation Centre• Mission: “… support and promote continuing
improvement in the quality of data curation…”• Vision
• Centre of excellence in digital curation• Authoritative source of advocacy & advice• Key facilitator of informed research community• Provider of range of resources, tools & services
a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation
Welcome New Projects
Three EPSRC new projectsCARMEN
Understanding the brain – £4.5m – led by Professor Colin Ingram, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NanoCMOSGrid Designing nano-circuits – £5.2m – led by Professor Asen
Asenov at Glasgow University
PMESG (Pervasive Mobile Environmental Sensor Grids) project
Environmental impact of traffic Jointly funded with the Department for Transport the
Department for Transport £3.5m – led by Professor John Polak at Imperial College
Slide 34
CARMEN - Scales of Integration
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
16th March 2006
NanoCMOSgriD Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS Electronics
The ChallengeThe Challenge
6th September 2006
International Tech nology Roadmap for Semiconductors Year 2005 2010 2015 2020
MPU Half Pitch (nm) 90 45 25 14
MPU Gate Length (nm) 32 18 10 6
2005 edition Toshiba 04
Device diversification
90nm: HP, LOP, LSTP
45nm: UTB SOI
32nm: Double gate
25 nm
Bulk MOSFET
FD SOI
UTB SOI
FinFET
HP(MPU)
LOP
LSTP
Stat.Sets
230 nm
Bulk MOSFET
Standard
SingleSet
Opportunities
Shape Future e-InfrastructureBalance international & local requirementsEmbrace diversity & maintain consistencyIntegrate effort & resources
Exploit e-Science methodsTo do new researchUsing e-Infrastructure
Embed in Educational ProgrammesCreativity & energy of the young
Engage Industry & Commerce
Vision for Future Science
Dr Stephen EmmottDirector European Science Programme, Microsoft Research
Some brief notes on Science towards 2020
16:15 Wednesday
Start now
Talk to new peopleInitiate new collaborationsEnjoy talks & workshopsVisit all the BoothsSee all the postersWin all the competitions
in the closing ceremony
Thanks to:Those who made UK e-Science happen.Carole Goble, Neil Geddes, Steven Newhouse, Jo Newman & Chris Rusbridge for slides.Alison McCall & Carole Becker for pictures.