Web: Email: [email protected] OMII-UK: From Software to Sustainable Systems Neil Chue Hong.

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OMII-UK: From Software to Sustainable Systems

Neil Chue Hong


What makes something sustainable?

• “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for life.”

• Sustainable systems demonstrate four key factors:

o cohesion and identity: clear, common goalso tolerance of diversity: no “one way to do it”o conservative use of resourceso adaptability to change

• "Teach a man to fish, and you introduce another competitor into the overcrowded fishing industry. Give a man a fish, and you stimulate demand for your product"


Overview

• OMII-UK vision• Supporting use of software• Helping establish communities• Software as a shared facility


Our Mission…

OMII-UK aims to provide software and support to enable a sustained future for

the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators

•Promote the use of good-quality open-source software•Reduce the risk of moving to new e-infrastructure world•Recognise distinct user communities: by domain and function

We help you to

make the software

you use sustainable!


Supporting Use of Software

• OMII-UKo help provide access to applicationso help provide support for softwareo help provide easy to install components o help promote standards to make it easier to

interoperate

• Skills available to support long term sustainability

o productise pieces of software developed elsewhere


Helping establish communities

• Communities require more than functional software

o documentation and trainingo guaranteed long-term supporto stable APIs as well as interoperable

standardso sharing of best practice and issues

• Clear understanding of the requirements that make them a distinct community


Commissioned Software Programme

• Identify gaps in functionality or quality required from community

o e.g. through SUPER report

• Provide funding back into the community to meet specific needs

o through calls, or through responsive funding

o Portlets, Grid APIs, Desktop Grids


ENGAGE

• Initiative with NGS to follow up on SUPER and target individual research groups

o Capture research scenarioso Collaborate on e-Infrastructure designso Implementation and deployment

• Aim to create specific examples of research benefit from e-Infrastructure

• Get “non e-Science” groups to participate


OMII-UK Community Engagement

• PALs and Beta-Testers• Open Forums• User Board

• Different ways of understanding community needs and gathering feedback

• Multiple approaches from multiple skill bases to attack a common problem


Software as a shared facility

• Communities develop to share workload and develop specialisms

o but grow a community too large and it lacks cohesion

• OMII-UK is able to identify and generate synergies amongst different groups

o identify specialisms which are useful across disciplines

o create benefit without diluting community visiono provide networking and sharing of best practice

• Centralise software “provision” as facility


Something to finish on…

“Connected, distributed systems, from power grids to business firms to even entire economies, are both more fragile and more robust than populations of isolated entities.”

Duncan J. Watts

•We need to build sustainable, resilient systems to achieve global usability

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