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The Internet is about to byte back!
Raising Awareness for e-Science & Grid Computing in
Industry & Commerce
John Oliver
Commercial Coordinator
Welsh e-Science Centre
Synopsis
• What is e-Science?
• What is the Grid & what benefits does it
bring?
• UK e-Science Programme
• Role of the Welsh e-Science Centre
• Concluding remarks
What is e-Science?
• e-Science
– “science increasingly done through
distributed global collaborations enabled by
the Internet, using very large data
collections, tera-scale computing resources
and high performance visualization.”
Collaborative Science
LARGE HADRON COLLIDER –
CERN
Physicists collaborating in an
international experiment ,need to
share:
• Data & storage resources
• IT resources for:
- Information extraction &
analysis
- Large scale simulation
Typical Data
Raw = 1 petabyte/sec
Filtered = 100Mbyte/sec
= 1 meg CD
ROMS per year
Engineering Design
A new aircraft may involve
10,000 engineers from many
organisations collaborating,
sharing:
• Digital blueprints & specs
• Supercomputer simulations
• Software and data for
multidisciplinary simulations
Crisis Management
SARS GRID – Taiwan May 2003
• Medical staff quarantined
• Short time frame
• PRAGMA virtual team set up
Grid, China, Korea, USA, Australia
• Access Grid teleconferencing
• Medical staff sharing expertise,
X-rays,patient records,diagnosis
data
“Post-Genomic” Bioinformatics
• Biological Databases
- larger, more complex & diverse
- allows linkage & optimal data
exploitation
• Micro Array experiments
- e.g. filtering 30 or 40 results out of
1 million
• Simulation of large molecules
- Protein folding affects how drugs
dock with receptors
WALES GENE PARK
WALES
BIOSTATISTICS &
BIOINFORMATICS
UNIT
University of Wales,
Departments of:
PATHOLOGY
PHARMACOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
Elements in Common
• COORDINATED PROBLEM SOLVING
– Beyond client-server:
distributed data analysis, computation, collaboration,
– Problem Solving Environments
• RESOURCE SHARING
– Computers, data, instruments, networks
• “VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS”
– Multi Institutional
– Overlying traditional organisational structures
– Large or small, static or dynamic
The Computing Foundations
for e-Science
Immersive Visualization
Grid Computing
High Performance
Computing
Collaborative Tools
High Speed Networks
&Broadband access
What is the Grid?
• Lots & lots of resources
• Secure remote access across
adminstrative domains
• Scalable discovery and seamless
composition of diverse resources
The Grid Vision
Imagine a world in which computing power is
as readily available as electrical power …..
• Where this power is made available
as "services" to users with differing
levels of expertise
• Where "services" interact to perform
specified tasks with a minimum of
human intervention
Benefits from the Grid
• Access to more computing and data
resources
• Lower cost of computing
• Increased flexibility
– to tackle large-scale problems
• Empowers individuals and organisations
– towards better collaboration within and
between organisations
Some “Healthy” Benefits
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Bioinformatics
Collaborative surgical planning
Radiotherapy treatment planning
High content imaging in Biosciences
Electronic patient records
Distributed remote diagnosis
Take-up of Grid Technologies
critical
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
IBM
Gartner
Foster & Kesselman
Importance
to business
Grid service
providers (GSP)
critically
important
internal use
by large
corporates
i) production grids
for research
“significant
momentum”
ii) vendors claim
“100’s of corporate
grid customers”
low/zero
15% of
corporates
using GSPs
science sectors
2000
2002
technology
maturity
TODAY
2004
science & non-science sectors
2006
2008
2010
2012
harnessing computer cycles
computing as a utility
pervasive computing
“mature”, real deployments
full revolution begins
“Great
Global
Grid”
UK e-Science Programme
• Spending Reviews
– 2000 : £98m for 3 years (+ £20m from DTI)
– 2002 : Further £115m for years 4 & 5
• Development of key IT infrastructure to
support e-Science
• Managed by Research Councils & DTI
– Application specific Pilot Projects
– Core programme to identify, develop and
deploy generic Grid middleware
UK e-Science Network
 National
Centre in
Edinburgh/Glasgow
 8 regional centres
 Grid support centre
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
Manchester
DL
Cambridge
Oxford
Cardiff
RAL
Hinxton
London (EBI)
Southampton
Welsh e-Science Centre
• School of Computing
• Funding:
- DTI, WDA & CU
• Role:
- Promote e-Science research and
development in Wales and Southwest of England
- Accelerate the adoption of eScience & Grid capabilities
Our Role in Practice
• Infrastructure Provision
• Development of technology
• Outreach to encourage:
– e-Science technologies use by
researchers
– Collaborative research projects
– Technology transfer to industry
Resources
• “Monster Computing Power”
– Locally: SUN, SGI, storage, visualisation
– Resources of the “national grid” !
– Access via Broadband
• Grid expertise for training and support
– Full-time staff (4)
– Related Researchers (~20)
Welsh e-Science Projects
25+ in progress grouped into
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Applications
Industrial Partnerships
Middlewares
Tools
Project – Biodiversity World
Desktop access to analysis tools & diverse data
sources to using:
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Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’
Species geography description & distribution
Climate surface & political units
Genetic sequences
Leucaena leucocephala
A tropical grazing plant
The probability that the climate at any given point is
suitable for it to grow
Project - Resource Awareness
Visualization Environment
To allow several
parties to interact with
visual data involving
different:
• locations
• display media
• bandwidth availabilty
in a shared virtual
space
Project - Triana
PSE featuring “pluggable
software architecture” allows
flexible use as :
- workflow management
for grid applications
- data analysis for signal,
image or text processing
- application designer tool
- “plug-in” your own code
 A collection of toolboxes,
& a work surface for
composition
 Drag & Drop” to create
workflow
Concluding Remarks
• The vision of the Grid and e-Science is
ambitious and far-reaching
• The Grid is an engine for progress in
medicine, healthcare and biosciences
driven by a confluence of technologies
• We are at the start of the Grid era. It’s a
long term programme
Work done at the WeSC Distributed
Visualization Facility (VDF)
• Translocation modeling of
DNA molecules through a
membrane pore
• Visual Molecular Dynamics
• Computational Steering
WeSC Web Site
http://www.wesc.ac.uk
WeSC Contacts
John Oliver
Commercial Coordinator
Tel: +44(0)29 2087 6998
e-mail: [email protected]
Thank you for coming