UK e-Science

EGEE Second Users’ Forum

Dave BerryDeputy Director for Research

with apologies fromMalcolm Atkinson

www.nesc.ac.uk10th May 2007

OverviewHistory of e-Science in UK > 6 years

Three Significant Strengths Established

Communities & Breadth

Science projects (70% of funding,Demanding drivers)

e-Infrastructure(hardware,

software & training)

Defining e-Science

e-Science: Systematic Support for Collaborative Research using advanced ICT

Multi-disciplinary, Multi-Site & Multi-NationalAll disciplines contribute & benefitEnabling wider engagementBuilding on and demanding advances in Computing Science

Using advances in computing to support research, design, diagnosis

Dates back 50 yearsPrevalent in branches of biology >30 yearsPrevalent in Engineering for >40 years

New emphasis on collaboration, sharing & interdisciplinarity

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

GGF5 Edinburgh

UK e-Science Diversity

Thriving CommunityAll disciplines & all Research CouncilsIndustry & AcademiaMany universities & research institutesUK e-Science All Hands MeetingsProductive collaboration

e-Infrastructure

A shared resourceThat enables science, research, engineering, medicine, industry, …It will improve UK / European / … productivity

Lisbon Accord 2000 E-Science Vision SR2000 –

John Taylor

Commitment by UK government

Sections 2.23-2.25

Always there c.f. telephones, transport,

power

OSI report www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/

OSI/index.html

http://www.allhands.org.uk/index.html

EdinburghEdinburgh

Activity

Slide from Dr Anna Kenway

Theme 3: Adoption of e-Research Technologies

Theme 4: Spatial Semantics for Automating Geographic Information Processes

Theme 5: Distributed Programming Abstractions

Theme 6: e-Science in the Arts and Humanities

Edinburgh

CardiffCardiff

BristolBristol

LancasterLancaster

WestminsterWestminster

National Grid Service and partners

YorkYork

ManchesterManchester

HarwellHarwell

CCLRC RutherfordAppleton LaboratoryCCLRC RutherfordAppleton Laboratory

LeedsLeeds

SheffieldSheffield

GlasgowGlasgow

OxfordOxford

UK e-Infrastructure

LHC

I SI S TS2

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

Slide: Neil Geddes

• UK’s largest e-science project• 19 UK Universities + STFC

• GridPP1 2001-2004"From Web to Grid" [£16m+]

• GridPP2+ 2004-2008 "From Prototype to Production” [£17m+]

• GridPP3 2008-2011 "From Production to Exploitation” [£30m]

GridPP: the UK Grid for particle physics

GridPP: the UK Grid for particle physics• Grid to analyse data from the Large

Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN– Operations – Tier-1 centre at

Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, 16 other sites

– Middleware – uses gLite– Applications for particle physics

experiments• > 5,000 CPUs and > 1/2 Petabyte

of disk storage• Part of EGEE Grid

– UK/Ireland region contributed 30 million kSI2k-hours in 2006 – 25% of the total

– UK CPU used by biomedics, fusion, industry…

• Worldwide LHC computing Grid - by 2008 (full year’s data taking)– CPU ~100MSI2k (100,000 CPUs)– Storage ~80PB – Involving >100 institutes worldwide

e-Science Centres in the UK

LeicesterLeicester

LeSCLeSC

BirminghamBirmingham

White Rose GridWhite Rose Grid

BristolBristol

LancasterLancaster

ReadingReading

OxfordOxford

EdinburghEdinburgh

BelfastBelfast

CambridgeCambridgeCCLRC DaresburyCCLRC Daresbury

ManchesterManchester

UCLUCL

NewcastleNewcastle

SouthamptonSouthampton

CardiffCardiff

CCLRC RALCCLRC RAL

Access GridSupport CentreAccess GridSupport Centre

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

GlasgowGlasgow

YorkYorkLeedsLeeds

SheffieldSheffield

Coordinated by:Directors’ Forum

& NeSC

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

OMII-UK Software

Software catalogue

Software repository

Special Product Lines

Community deposits

SE QA pipeline

Community software stacks

Commissionedprogramme

Software spotted on safarior by Product or Area Liaisons (PALs) Data

WorkflowPortal

Service registry

Infrastructure and Standards Community

User Community

ForeignDistributions

Open Source

OMII-BPEL

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

National Centre for e-Social Science

OxfordOxford

University of ManchesterUniversity of Manchester

ManchesterManchester

ColchesterColchester

University of EssexUniversity of Essex

LancasterLancaster

BristolBristol

LeedsLeeds

LondonLondon

AberdeenAberdeen

NottinghamNottingham

The NERC Success

Professor Robert GurneyDirector, Environmental Systems Science Centre, Reading

The NERC e-Science experience 11 papers in NatureEnthusiastic uptake of ensemble methods

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)

Slide: Robert Gurney

Impact:New ScienceUnderstanding of scienceEngaging schoolsBBC follow on

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NERC centres

SwindonSwindon ReadingReadingUniversity of ReadingUniversity of Reading

CambridgeCambridge

National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science, University of Cambridge

National Institute forEnvironmental e-Science, University of Cambridge

www.gridcomputingnow.org

www.gridcomputingnow.org

Web Site

Background Information

Industry News & Events

User Case Studies

Events programme

Webinars

Issue-focused workshops

OGF20 industry track

User Community

Network with peers

Find useful contacts

Contribute experience

Sector AgendaPilot Projects:

• Healthcare, Infrastructure

• Telecoms• eGovernment

Infrastructure• Transport

Leverage Collaborative Projects

MediaTalks & presentationsGCN! CompetitionIndustry platforms

David De Roure

Slide: Dave De Roure & Jeremy Frey

PatientHome-mobile-clinic

via TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper

Diabetes Specialist / Other Specialist Nurses

Home-mobile-clinicvia TV-PDA-laptop-PC-Paper

Dietitian

DiabeticianHome-mobile-clinic

via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper

Biochemist

GPHome-mobile-clinic

via PDA-laptop-PC-Paper

Various Clinical Specialists (Distributed)e.g. Ophthalmologist, Podiatrist, Vascular

Surgeons, Renal Specialists, Wound clinic, Foot care clinic, Neurologists, Cardiologists

ILLNESS

REFERRAL REFERRAL

REFERRAL

CASE

Community Nurses / Health Visitors

VARIABLESACCESSMATRIX

Healthcare @ Home

“Wellbeing” the global-scale killer app., Sir Robin Saxby Oct. 2006

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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

Source: Colin Ingram

CARMEN2006 - 2009 http://bioinf.ncl.ac.uk/carmen/

FireGrid

PiperPiperAlphaAlpha

Mont BlancMont Blanc

KobeKobe

Kings CrossKings Cross WTCWTC

Logging

FireGrid Architecture

Routine & Initial Workflows

sensor validation & calibration, building and

people status & event detection

Building data Pre-computedscenarios

Escalated Workflows

From PCs to teraflops

Displays from sensors and simulations

C&CView selected

status displays & user control panels

Personal & TeamPreference data

5 People

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D

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Sensors & Actuators

Temp, CO, smoke,displacement/strain, vibration/acoustic,

systems status

Primary monitoring & gateways

between sensor nets & grid

Workflowselection& steering

Data-flowselection& actuation

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SouthEasternEurope, 10%

SouthWesternEurope, 12% Italy, 16%

France, 18%

UKI, 29%NorthernEurope, 7%

CentralEurope, 4%

AsiaPacific, 2%

GermanySwitzerland, 1%

Russia, 1%

WISDOM deployment : wisdom.eu-egee.fr

Total amount of CPU provided by EGEE

federation

Countries with nodes contributing to the data challenge WISDOM

•10•UK•1•Poland•1•Germany

•1•Taiwan•2•Netherlands•9•France

•7•Spain•13•Italy•1•Cyprus

•2•Russia•1•Israel•1•Croatia

•1•Romania•3•Greece•3•Bulgaria

•sites•country•sites•country•sites•country

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DAME/BROADEN 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

Slide: Carole Goble, Jim Fleming & Jim Austin

Take Home

UK e-Science investment has built three interdependent strengths:

Communities & collaborationProjects delivering & demandinge-Infrastructure: organisation, support & technology

Three success factors for projectsEngagement & value for all participantsCreativity & insight addressing a well-posed challengeTechnology adoption and innovation

Progress in research domains is the driverIntegrate whatever technology you needInvent new technology only if you have to