Andy Keane

Director, Southampton Regional e-Science Centre

ajk@soton.ac.uk

Welcome

Southampton Regional e-Science

Centre Opening

Today’s Agenda

• Welcome by Andy Keane

• Formal Opening by Prof Bill Wakeham (VC)

• Lunch (12:30-13:30)

• Tours and Access Grid demonstration for those staying after lunch

• Close (14:30)

The Vision

‘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.’

John Taylor

Director General of Research Councils

Office of Science and Technology

Instruments

People

Appliances

e-Science & the Grid

Data Bases

PDAs

e-Science is the large scale science carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet.

It is characterised by very large data collections and computing resources being used by collaborating but geographically separated engineers or scientists.

The e-Science computing infrastructure is known as the Grid. The vision of e-Science involves substantial computer science research challenges in grid computing.

UK e-Science Initiative

• £120M Programme over 3 years

• £75M is for Grid Applications in all areas of science and engineering

• £10M for Supercomputer upgrade

• £35M ‘Core Program’ to encourage development of generic ‘industrial strength’ Grid middleware

Cambridge

Newcastle

Edinburgh

Oxford

Glasgow

Manchester

Cardiff

Southampton

London

Belfast

DL

RAL Hinxton

UK e-Science Grid

The Southampton Regional Centre

• Supporting projects and encouraging industrial applications

• Increasing awareness of the techniques of e-Science• Helping people to kick off e-Science projects and

activities• Helping co-ordinate activity across the University,

region, national & international communities• GRID deployment• Managing an Access Grid node• Newly refurbished building

Centre Structure

• Management team is Andy Keane, Simon Cox, Dave De Roure, Mike Chrystall (Engineering) and Pete Hancock (SUCS).

• Regional remit from Bath to Brighton.• Strongly supported from IBM Hursley,

Microsoft & Intel.• First outreach event held Friday 8 Feb 2002.• See http://www.e-science.soton.ac.uk

Access Grid Nodes

Technology Developed in USA at Argonne National Laboratory

Access Grid will enable informal and formal group to group collaboration

•Distributed lectures and seminars

•Virtual meetings

•Complex distributed grid demos

e-Science Centre Projects

• Each centre has £0.5M block grant and further £1M to fund industry facing middleware projects

• Projects require 50% matching resources from industry

• Projects aim to exploit Grid technology to allow e-Science based working

Current Projects

• Civil Engineering Site Monitoring

• Ship Motion Simulation• Yacht Design• Marine Structural Analysis• Photonic Device Design

Centre also houses Geodise Pilot (EPSRC), Genie (NERC) & Grid BioSim (BBSRC)

Geodise EPSRC Pilot

• “Grid-enabled Optimisation and Design Search for Engineering”

• £2.8M project is led by Simon Cox with Andy Keane (SoES), Nigel Shadbolt (ECS)

• Partners at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford

• 11 research posts at Southampton

• Collaborating companies are Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, Fluent, Intel, Microsoft, Compusys, and Epistemics.

Geodise will provide grid-based seamless access to an intelligent knowledge repository, a state-of-the-art collection of optimisation and search tools, industrial strength analysis

codes, and distributed computing & data resources

APPLICATION SERVICE

PROVIDER

COMPUTATION

GEODISE

PORTAL

OPTIMISATION

Engineer

Parallel machinesClusters

Internet Resource ProvidersPay-per-use

Optimisation archive

Intelligent Application Manager

Intelligent Resource Provider

Licenses and code

Session database

Design archive

OPTIONSSystem

Knowledge repository

Traceability

Visualization

Globus, Condor, OGSA

Ontology for Engineering,

Computation, &Optimisation and Design Search

CAD SystemCADDSIDEASProE

CATIA, ICAD

AnalysisCFDFEMCEM

ReliabilitySecurity

QoS

http://www.geodise.org

External activities• Southampton represented on national e-Science

committees:– e-Science Technical Advisory Group (Shadbolt)– Architecture Task Force (De Roure)– Security Task Force (Surridge)– Grid Engineering Task Force (Cox, Baker)– Grid Network Team (Chown)– JISC Research Committee (De Roure)– …

• N+N meeting, semantic grid (De Roure, Webb)• Reports commissioned from De Roure et al and Cox• Intel Virtual Centre for Grid Computing with Imperial

College (Cox)

Other e-Science Projects at Southampton

Comb-e-Chem EPSRC Pilot• “Structure-Property Mapping: Combinatorial

Chemistry and the Grid”

• £2.3M project led by Jeremy Frey in Chemistry (with Mike Hursthouse and Jonathan Essex), Dave De Roure (ECS) Mike Surridge (IT Innovation) and Sue Lewis (Maths)

• 11 Southampton posts, Bristol is partner

• Collaborating companies are Roche Discovery Welwyn, Pfizer, IBM UK Ltd, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Southampton Combinatorial Centre of Excellence.

• Includes Exploring Chemical Structures using e-Science demonstrator

X-Ray e-Laboratory

MyGrid EPSRC Pilot• “MyGrid: Personalised extensible

environments for data-intensive in silico experiments in biology”

• £3.3M project led by University of Manchester

• Other partners are Southampton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and the European Bioinformatics Institute.

Southampton team led by Luc Moreau (ECS) and Matthew Addis (IT Innovation)

Collaborating companies are IBM UK Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline, SUN Microsystems Ltd, AstraZeneca UK Ltd, Merck KGaA, Epistemics Ltd, Network Inference and GeneticXchange.

IRC e-Science Projects

• AKT – CoAKTing: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid.

• Equator/MIAS – Grid-based Medical Devices for Everyday Health.

• AKT/MIAS – Grid Enabled Knowledge Services: Collaborative Problem Solving Environments in Medical Informatics.

Grid Enabled Knowledge Services – Collaborative Problems Solving Environments in Medical Informatics

• Southampton, OU, Sheffield, Oxford, Kings• Grid will be used to fuse images, align them over visits etc• MIAKT will develop ontologies to annotate and label features,

map between viewpoints • Generate natural language reports from labelled features,

patient history to support collaborative problem solving

Grade Clinical Imaging Cytological

1 Normal Normal or benign

Inadequate

2 Benign Probably benign

Benign

3 Uncertain Indeterminate Suspicious probably benign

4 Malignant? Malignant? Suspicious probably malignant

5 Malignant Malignant Malignant

MRC project

• Integration of maps to support disease gene mapping and studies of of biological properties of chromosome location

• £216k project

• Andy Collins, Human Genetics

NERC project• GRID for Environmental Systems Diagnostics

and Visualization

Reading (Coordinator)

Prof. K. Haines Assimilation, Modelling

Southampton Prof. J. Marotzke

Thermohaline Modelling

Imperial Prof. A. Goddard

Engineering Fluid Models

Manchester Dr J. Brooke HPC, RealityGrid

Rutherford Dr D. Boyd Commodity Visualization

European projectsGRIA “Grid Resources for Industrial Applications”

2.8M euro project led by IT Innovation

Collaborators are ENEL (an Italian energy utility) and Kino (a Greek TV and movie production company), the National Technical University of Athens and Dolphin from Norway.

GRIDStart “Grid Dissemination, Standards, Applications, Roadmap and Training”

IT Innovation. Exploit synergies between European Grid projects, contribute to international standards and stimulate early take-up of Grid enabled applications.

European projects (cont.)

DISTAL-TU0.8M euro project, IT Innovation will develop and prove business models for users, service providers and technology providers. Atos Origin Engineering Services in the Netherlands will use the technology to provide services for the European Space Research and Technology Centre

  GRIP1.9M euro project, aims to demonstrate that the different perspectives of two distinct grids can successfully complement each, focusing on weather prediction and biomolecular applications as inter-grid applications. Southampton’s participation is led by Denis Nicole (ECS) with Simon Cox.

European projects (cont.)

GEMSS “Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Service”

3.3M Euro project, IT Innovation will develop a system with security compliant to complicated and demanding legislation, and quality-of-service appropriate to various time-critical processes. It will demonstrate how Grid technologies can be used to transform healthcare and enable Europe to lead that

transformation.

• We are up and running.

• The building is ready.

• Projects are agreed.

• Staff have been recruited.

• The Centre is making a contribution.

Summary

We just require the building to be opened …