Welcomee-Science in the UK

Building Collaborative eResearch Environments

Prof. Malcolm AtkinsonDirector

www.nesc.ac.uk

23rd February 2004

Contents

Welcome & Message from Tony HeyWhat is e-ScienceUK e-Science FundingUK e-Science Infrastructuree-Research Collaboration

Requires new behavioursAccountable Safe SharingRecognition and ResponsibilityCommon or Bespoke Infrastructure

eResearch = e-Science for everybody?

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

e-Science Programme’s Vision

UK will lead the in the exploitation of e-Infrastructure

New, faster and better researchEngineering design, medical diagnosis, decision support, …e-Business, e-Research, e-Design, e-Government, …

Depends on Leading e-Infrastructure development & deployment

Grids, middleware, data curation, …GSC, OMII, DCC, GOC, …

What is e-Science?Invention and exploitation of advanced computational methods

to generate, curate and analyse research data Experimental, observational and synthetic data Quality management and reliable evidence

to develop and explore models and simulations

Computation and data Quality management and reliable evidence

to enable dynamic distributed virtual organisations

Facilitating collaboration and sharing Security, reliability, accountability, manageability, agility

e-Science Grid & Web Services It is what you do with them that counts

Three-way Alliance

Computing ScienceSystems, Notations &

Formal Foundation→ Process & Trust

TheoryModels & Simulations

→Shared Data

Experiment &Advanced Data

Collection→

Shared Data

Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabledConsortia, Cultures & Societies

Requires Much Engineering, Much Innovation

Changes Culture, New Mores, New Behaviours

New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards

Biochemical Pathway Simulator

Closing the inf ormation loop – between lab and computational model.

(Computing Science, Bioinformatics, Beatson Cancer Research Labs)

DTI Bioscience Beacon Project Harnessing Genomics Programme

Slide from Professor Muffy Calder, Glasgow

LHC Distributed Simulation &

Analysis

Tier2 Centre ~1 TIPS

Online System

Offline Farm~20 TIPS

CERN Computer Centre >20 TIPS

RAL Regional Centre

US Regional Centre

French Regional Centre

Italian Regional Centre

InstituteInstituteInstituteInstitute ~0.25TIPS

Workstations

~100 MBytes/sec

~100 MBytes/sec

100 - 1000 Mbits/sec

•One bunch crossing per 25 ns

•100 triggers per second

•Each event is ~1 Mbyte

Physicists work on analysis “channels”

Each institute has ~10 physicists working on one or more channels

Data for these channels should be cached by the institute server

Physics data cache

~PBytes/sec

~ Gbits/sec or Air Freight

Tier2 Centre ~1 TIPS

Tier2 Centre ~1 TIPS

~Gbits/sec

Tier Tier 00

Tier Tier 11

Tier Tier 33

Tier Tier 44

1 TIPS = 25,000 SpecInt95

PC (1999) = ~15 SpecInt95

ScotGRID++ ~1 TIPS

Tier Tier 22

1. CERN1. CERN

Database GrowthPDB Content Growth

Bases 45,356,382,990

UCSF

UIUC

From Klaus Schulten, Center for Biomollecular Modeling and Bioinformatics, Urbana-Champaign

e-Science: SR2002 and SR2000

Research Council 2004-6 2001-4Medical £13.1M (£8M)Biological £10.0M (£8M)Environmental £8.0M (£7M)Eng & Phys £18.0M (£17M)HPC £2.5M (£9M)Core Prog. £16.2M (£15M) +

£20MParticle Phys & Astro £31.6M (£26M)Economic & Social £10.6M (£3M)Central Labs £5.0M (£5M)Most of SR2002 allocated; to come Fundamental CS for e-Science, JCSR, …

e-Science: SR2004

Funds base-lined in each research councilEach will decide what to do with itWill there be stimulation of collaboration?Will there be large projects?Will there be any investment in common infrastructure?

Core Facilities via JISC (& EPSRC?)OMII, DCC, …£11 Million

DTIIndustry & Applications driven open processInter-enterprise ComputingComplex SystemsFirst call April 04: then 2 per year with priorities

www.nesc.ac.uk

Nationale-

ScienceCentre

HPC(x)

Globus Alliance

Example: OGSA-DAI

Initiated in Database Task Force at NeSCWorkshops of Developers & Users – Requirements driven

Ideas developed Workshops of the UK Architectural Task ForceWorkshops on OGSA & OGSI with Globus, Oracle & IBMPrototypes from ResearchQuality Software from EPCC & IBMLaunched standards effort at GGF – DAIS WG – Large Effort

Training Courses for Users & DevelopersCoordinated effort

Workshops on Software Development & RequirementsAgreed Mechanisms & Schedule with Globus

Formed Globus Alliance

Fundamentals of Collaboration

Agreed Models of How to Work TogetherEvolving understandingDeveloping trustAffordable and Agile

Effective ToolsRapid assembly of Virtual OrganisationsEasy Research Application DevelopmentLow cost changeSupported research workflows

Shared Infrastructure & Ubiquitous Access