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 …
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