Transcript E-Science: Achievements, Challenges and new Opportunities Fifth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting

E-Science: Achievements, Challenges
and new Opportunities
Fifth UK e-Science All Hands Meeting
Malcolm Atkinson
Director e-Science Institute
& e-Science Envoy
www.nesc.ac.uk
19th September 2006
Overview
Celebrate Five Years of Success
Three Great Strengths Established
Welcome New Projects
Opportunities
Work together
Shape e-Science & e-Infrastructure
E-Science: Systematic Support for
Collaborative Research
Multi-disciplinary, Multi-Site & Multi-National
All disciplines contribute & benefit
Enabling wider engagement
Building with advances in Computing Science
UK e-Science Success
Thriving Community
All disciplines & all
Research Councils
Industry & Academia
Many universities &
research institutes
UK e-Science All
Hands Meetings
Productive
collaboration
Essential Collaboration
Collaboration
Requires
Commitment and
Strategy
A challenge to build
and maintain
We have done it
repeatedly
Can we capture and
clone the recipes?
Can we support it
well for all research?
New Patterns of
Communication
National Centre for e-Social Science
Aberdeen
University of Manchester
University of Essex
Lancaster
Manchester Leeds
Nottingham
Oxford
Bristol
6th September 2006
+2 years
Colchester
London
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Edinburgh
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+5 years
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Collaboration Pioneer
Professor Dan
Atkins
Director of the Office
of Shared
Cyberinfrastructure,
NSF
The NSF vision of
Cyberinfrastructure
supporting
e-Research,
e-learning and
engagement
09:00 Wednesday
Archaeology & e-Science
Professor Michael
Fulford
Archaeology,
University of Reading
Silchester Roman
Town: the
challenges,
aspirations and
experience of
developing a VRE
for Archaeology
9:45 Wednesday
UK e-Science Success
Significant outputs from projects
Research results
Commercial impact
Outreach and international influence
The NERC Success
Professor Robert Gurney
Director, Environmental Systems Science
Centre, Reading
The NERC e-Science experience
On next!
climateprediction.net
Predicting Climate Change
Through Volunteer Computing
University of Oxford
Department of
Atmospheric Physics
6th September 2006
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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)
In silico biology
http://www.mygrid.org.uk
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Construct in silico experiments,
find and adapt others, manage
the experiment lifecycle
Taverna Workflow workbench
OGSA-DQP
Semantic Technologies
Williams-Beuren Syndrome,
Grave’s Disease,
Trypanosomiasis in cattle.
OMII-UK Node, GRIMOIRE
Registry, Taverna Workflow
workbench
12000+ Downloads of Taverna
Wide transfer to BBSRC (e-Fungi,
ISPIDER, ComparaGrid) & MRC
projects (PsyGrid, CLEF, CLEFS)
Semantic Grid pioneer
WBS gene identification
Outstanding international links
Great deal of open source s/w
Links into BOSC & HGMP
KT to BT, ComparaGrid, OntoGrid,
BBSRC Systems Biology Centre,
MIASGrid, Rice Institute etc
Middleware for data intensive in
silico biology by bioinformaticians
• Carole Goble (Comp Sci, Manchester)
• 7 Universities and institutes (incl. EBI)
• 8 Companies
http://www.discovery-on-the.net/
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Design, develop and implement
an advanced infrastructure to
support real-time processing,
interpretation, integration,
visualization and mining of vast
amounts of time critical data
generated by high throughput
devices.
Data mining, text mining
Environmental monitoring,
bioinformatics
InforSense, GSK, Oracle
2003: Discovery Net in Action:
Fighting SARS in China
2002: Supercomputing 2002
Most Innovative Data Intensive
Application Award
2002: KDD CUP 2002 Scientific
Text Mining Awards
High Throughput Informatics
Scientific
Information
Literatur
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In Real Time
Service Workflow
Real Time
Discovery
Data
Services
Scientific
Discover
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Integration
Datab
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Operational
Data
Dynamic Application Integrative Knowledge
Integration
Management
Using GRID Resources
Images
Instrument
Data
Yike Guo (Comp Sci, Imperial)
•1 university
SIMDAT
Workflow Warehousing and
Semantic Authoring
UK-China e-Science Workshop, China
DAME
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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.
Aircraft healthcare diagnosis
BROADEN DTI Project (£3.9M)
Spun out technology exploited
through Cybula Ltd., Oxford
Biosignals and DS&S.
Successful mid-term demonstrator • Jim Austin (Comp Sci, York)
well received by Rolls Royce
• 4 Universities and institutes
White Rose Grid: experience of
• 3 Companies
building & using production Grids
In Grid Blue Print 2 edition 2
UK e-Science Success
Reliable e-Infrastructure 24*7
Foundations well established
Extending in Function, Scale & Ubiquity
NGS
E-Science Centres
Specialised support centres
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AHRC Support @ Kings, Text Mining, 2*NERC centres, NCeSS
Data Services
OMII-UK
E-Science Institute
DCC
JISC Virtual Research Environments
JISC e-Framework
National Grid Service and partners
Edinburgh
CCLRC Rutherford
Appleton Laboratory
Lancaster
Manchester York
Cardiff Didcot
Westminster
Bristol
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+2.5 years
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OU=BBSRC
OU=Bristol
OU=Birmingham
6thUsers
September
by2006
institution
OU=
01 August
09
2004
November
2004
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Count of OU=
35
25
Linear (NGS User
Registrations)
0
28 May
2005
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160 05
September December
2005
2005
Date
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120
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100
30
80
20
60
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40
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0
bbsrc
cclrc
epsrc
nerc
pparc
Sociology
100
Medicine
NGS User
Registrations
Humanities
200
PP + Astronomy
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34
56
78
1190
1
1123
114
1156
7
1189
220
2212
23
2254
6
227
2389
0
3312
333
3345
6
33378
9
4401
442
4434
5
4476
4498
5501
552
534
555
5567
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6590
661
6623
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6665
667
6798
710
7723
774
7756
7
7789
880
8812
3
88845
6
8887
9809
9912
993
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9978
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1109
110001
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110034
1105
110067
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111190
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111132
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111165
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1118
112290
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112223
1124
112256
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1112389
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113321
1133
113354
367
Number of Registered NGS Users
Env. Sci
50
Eng. + Phys. Sci
Number of Users
150
Large facilities
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February
2005
biology
Total
OU=York
23 April
2004
OU=Westminster
OU=Warwick
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14 January
2004
OU=UCL
OU=Southampton
OU=Sheffield
OU=Reading
Files stored
OU=QueenMaryLondon
~400 users
OU=QUB
OU=Portsmouth
OU=Oxford
OU=OASIS
OU=Nottingham
OU=Newcastle
OU=Manchester
OU=Liverpool
OU=Leeds
OU=Lancaster
OU=Imperial
OU=Glasgow
OU=Edinburgh
OU=DMPHB
OU=DLS
OU=CPPM
OU=CLRC
OU=Cardiff
OU=Cambridge
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O=universiteit-utrecht
NGS Use
Usage Statistics (Total Hours for all 4 Core Nodes)
250000
200000
150000
Hours
100000
User DN
300
250
50000
0
Users (Anonymous)
CPU time by user
Total
Count of "RC"
"RC"
AHRC
mrc
esrc
Users by discipline
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Applications: 2
Systems Biology
Econometric
analysis
Example: La2-xSrxNiO4
Neutron Scattering
Climate
modelling
6th September 2006
H. Woo et al, Phys Rev B 72 064437 (2005)
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JISC e-Infrastructure &
Projects
Professor Dave De
Roure
Head of Grid and
Pervasive Computing
in the School of
Electronics and
Computer Science,
University of
Southampton
e-Research the JISC
way
14:30 Thursday
e-Science Centres in the UK
e-Science Centres
Centres of Excellence
Other Centres
Lancaster
Belfast
Access Grid
Support Centre
Coordination & Leadership:
NeSC & e-Science
Digital Curation Centre
Directors’ Forum
NeSC
York
Newcastle
Leicester
Manchester
National Centre for
Text Mining
National Centre for
e-Social Science
National Institute for
Environmental e-Science
Daresbury
Cambridge
Birmingham
Oxford
National Grid
Service
Cardiff
Bristol
RAL
6th Reading
September 2006
+ ~2 years
Open Middleware
Infrastructure Institute Southampton London
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London
OMII-UK nodes
EPCC & National e-Science Centre
School of Computer Science
University of Manchester
Edinburgh
School of Electronics and
Computer Science
University of Southampton
Manchester
Southampton
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‘software and support to enable a sustained future for the
UK e-Science community and its international collaborators’
Software
• Provide guidance to the broad UK e-Science community
• Disseminate your e-Science software to a global community
Support
• Software support and training in using e-Science software
• Provide collaborative mechanisms to support the community
• Define, contribute and disseminate best practice and standards
Sustainability
• Provide a best of breed software solution
• Partner to provide a sustainable future.
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Visit the OMII-UK stand…
• Tell us about the software you use or
produce
– Register it on the website and get a travel mug!
• Tell us about the e-Science you do now and
what you would like to do in the future
– Complete our on-line or paper survey
• See demonstrations of OMII-UK software
– Job execution, scheduling and service
Fordiscovery
more information see www.omii.ac.uk/AHM2006
6th September 2006
– Workflow between different data sources
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Digital Curation Centre and partners
Humanities Advanced
Technology and Information
Institute
Database Research Group,
School of Informatics
AHRC Research Centre for
Studies in Intellectual Property
and Technology Law
EDINA
National e-Science Centre
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Rutherford Appleton (Didcot)
and Daresbury (Warrington)
Laboratories
Warrington
UKOLN (formerly UK Office
for Library Networking)
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Didcot
Bath
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a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation
Digital Curation Centre
• Mission: “… support and promote continuing
improvement in the quality of data curation…”
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Centre of excellence in digital curation
Authoritative source of advocacy & advice
Key facilitator of informed research community
Provider of range of resources, tools & services
a centre of expertise in data curation and preservation
Welcome New Projects
Three EPSRC new projects
CARMEN
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Understanding the brain – £4.5m – led by Professor Colin
Ingram, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
NanoCMOSGrid
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Designing nano-circuits – £5.2m – led by Professor Asen
Asenov at Glasgow University
PMESG (Pervasive Mobile Environmental
Sensor Grids) project
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Environmental impact of traffic
Jointly funded with the Department for Transport the
Department for Transport
£3.5m – led by Professor John Polak at Imperial College
CARMEN - Scales of Integration
Understanding the brain
may be the greatest
informatics challenge of
the 21st century
 determining ion
channel contribution
to the timing of action
potentials
 resolving the ‘neural
code’ from the timing
of action potential
activity
 examining integration
within networks of
differing dimensions
Slide 34
NanoCMOSgriD
Meeting the Design Challenges of Nano-CMOS Electronics
The Challenge
International Tech nology Roadmap for Semiconductors
Year
MPU Half Pitch (nm)
MPU Gate Length (nm)
2005
2010
2015
2020
90
32
45
18
25
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14
6
2005 edition Toshiba 04
Device diversification
230 nm
90nm: HP, LOP, LSTP
45nm: UTB SOI
Bulk MOSFET
32nm: Double gate
Standard
25 nm
FinFET
UTB SOI
FD SOI
Bulk MOSFET
LSTP
LOP
HP(MPU)
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Single
Set
Stat.
Sets
16th March 2006
Opportunities
Shape Future e-Infrastructure
Balance international & local
requirements
Embrace diversity & maintain consistency
Integrate effort & resources
Exploit e-Science methods
To do new research
Using e-Infrastructure
Embed in Educational Programmes
Creativity & energy of the young
Engage Industry & Commerce
Vision for Future Science
Dr Stephen Emmott
Director European
Science Programme,
Microsoft Research
Some brief notes on
Science towards
2020
16:15 Wednesday
Start now
Talk to new people
Initiate new collaborations
Enjoy talks & workshops
Visit all the Booths
See all the posters
Win all the competitions
in the closing ceremony
Thanks to:
Those who made UK e-Science happen.
Carole Goble, Neil Geddes, Steven Newhouse, Jo Newman & Chris Rusbridge for slides.
Alison McCall & Carole Becker for pictures.