Supporting further and higher education

VRE Programme

Current Position and Achievements to Date

Maia Dimitrova

28th Nov ‘05

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The VRE Road Ahead

2004

2005

2008

IntegratedDistributed

VRE?

VRE Roadmap

Programme Start

VRE FrameworksWhat Users Want?

VRE ToolsetVRE Architectures

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VRE Roadmap ’04 - Aim

“The aim of a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is to help researchers manage this complexity [of research] by providing an infrastructure specifically designed to support the activities carried out within research teams, on both small and large scales.”

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VRE Roadmap ’04 - ???s

• On which technologies it could be based?

• How it can be developed sustainably?

• How usability and take-up can be ensured?

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VRE Projects Time-LineName 10/04 01/05 04/05 07/05 10/05 01/06 04/06 07/06 10/06 01/07 04/07 07/07

EdSci

Politic

Sakai Portal

IB

BVRE

Chesh

OGHA

GROW

EVIE

ELVI

MEME

SAGE

ISME

IUGO

CORE

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Overview of Achievements

• Research Processes

• User Needs & Requirements

• VRE Design Architectures

• VRE Frameworks & Tools

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Research Processes

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Project Management

Resource Discovery

Peer activities (publishing)

Linking Research and Teaching

Consultancy

Collaboration with

Partners

Research Outputs

Obtain Funding

EVIE Research Lifecycle

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IBVRE Research Lifecycle

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User Needs & Requirements

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General Requirements

• Allow easy access to a diverse set of resources

• Flexibility in choosing resources and personalising the VRE

• Help with writing grant applications • Services to centralise forms &

resources• Better access to information about

researchers & their interests

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Collaboration Requirements

• Links between the collaborative tools and repositories

• Ability to push information to and alert all members of a group

• Ensure data security for centralised data repositories

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Humanities Requirements

• Integrated interface for browsing & searching of multiple image collections

• Tools to compare and annotate personal collections

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VRE Design Architectures

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CORE Architecture

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IB Architecture

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GROWL’S Architecture

End-user application

GROWL client invoked as a function call

GROWL services

Local O/Se.g. workstation

Remote O/S, e.g. parallel computer

GSI, MyProxy

Globus-job-run etc.

GridFTP, etc.

SABRE or other remote app

GROWL passes data and requests across firewalls using Web services

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VRE Frameworks &

Tools

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Sakai Portal Demonstrator

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• Blog• Shared

Display• Shared

Whiteboard• Multicast

Audio• Multicast

Video

Sakai Extensions

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ELVI Portal

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Access Grid Tools - 1

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Access Grid Tools - 2

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We Are Not Alone

e-Science

e-Infrastructure

e-Learning

e-Framework

NSF/Mellon funded work

in USA

DEST in Australia

EU-funded work

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What does it all mean?

Over to John Kelleher …