UK e-Science Booth at SC04

John Gordon 30 th November 2004

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• SuperComputing started in 1988 – In recent years more emphasis on Distributed Computing and Technology than pure Supercomputing • The name is now SC2004 rather than SuperComputing – The High Performance, Networking, and Storage Conference • UK e-Science programme has had a booth since 2002 • SC2004 was held in Pittsburgh, 6-10 November

• Booth • Programme • Feedback • Next year?

SC2004

The Booth

• CCLRC-RAL took responsibility for the infrastructure • A UK company, SmartPartners, arranged the shipping and construction of the stand.

• RAL managed the networking, computers, display, and audio-visual • Mainly funded by EPSRC – Some equipment loaned by RAL and others (eg ClusterVision)

The Programme

• Dave Berry (NeSC) organised the booth content • 12 demonstrations with 1 or 2 flat screens • Talks in the booth’s theatre

Demonstrations

• Public call went out early summer – Aimed at e-Science Centres and RCs – Calling for

projects

to propose demonstrations • Review panel looked at the projects’ presence at AHM and proposed a couple more • Selection made early September • Funded two people per demo

Demonstrations

GridPP: The UK's contribution to a worldwide Grid for particle physics AstroGrid: Creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory

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EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute: Grid Computing Made Simple A Market for Computational Services: Negotiation, Charging and Brokering CamMon: A Visual Demonstration of jGMA

and

Ubiquitous Resource Monitoring across the Grid Resource-Aware Visualization Environment

: Dave Colling, Imperial College Roger Jones, Lancaster University Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge Bob Bentley, University College London Isabelle Scholl, International Space University Steven Newhouse, OMII Yvonne Howard, OMII William Lee, Imperial College John Ainsworth University of Manchester Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth

DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft engines GEWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration within the aerospace research sector eDiaMoND: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for breast cancer screening BRIDGES: A Grid Enabled Bioinformatics Workbench for Functional Genomics Grid-enabled Application Visualisation Services Also an informal demonstration of GeoDise

: Ian Grimstead, Cardiff University Ieuan Nicholas, Welsh e-Science Centre Tom Jackson, University of York Mark Jessop, University of York Alan Davies, BAe Systems Kevin Dyke, University of Manchester Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow Lakshmi Sastry, CCLRC Ronald F. Fowler, CCLRC Andrew Price, University of Southampton

Talks

• A programme of 25 talks was organised for the booth • Speakers drawn from demonstrators, other attendees, and via Access Grid from the UK.

• All broadcast on AG

UK e-Science Talks at SC2004

[All talks will be broadcast by Access Grid]

Monday 8 th November, 19:00 - 21:00 (Gala Opening)

Talks

19.30

20.00 20.30

An Introduction to UK e-Science (Anne Trefethen, UK e Science Core Programme) The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute

Computing Made Simple (Steven Newhouse, OMII)

EGEE

: Building a pan-European production Grid (Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre) : Grid

Tuesday 9 th November, 10:00 - 18:00

10.15 11.15 12.15 13.15 14.15 15.15 16.15 17.15 The Semantic Mouse Atlas (Richard Baldock, Human Genetics Unit)

RealityGrid

: Real science on computational grids (Peter Coveney, University College London)

The Semantic Grid

(David De Roure, University of Southampton)

Understanding the nature of matter

: Using Grids to compute on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke, National e-Science Centre)

GeWiTTS

(Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration within the aerospace research sector (Alan Davies, BAe Systems)

DAME

: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft engines (Tom Jackson, University of York)

EGSO

: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data (Bob Bentley, UCL)

Welcome to the real world

: Industry and the Grid (Paul Graham, EPCC)

Wednesday 10 th November, 10:00 - 18:00

10.15 11.15 12.15 13.15

14.00

14.45 15.30 16.15 17.15

The eMinerals integrated compute and data grid for molecular simulations

(Martin Dove, National Centre for Environmental e-Science)

Portals for integrated services for e-Research and Learning

(Rob Allan, CCLRC)

An extensible framework for data integration

(Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre)

A black hole census: example science from AstroGrid, the UK’s Virtual Observatory

(Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge)

Overview of UK e-Science (Tony Hey, UK e-Science Core Programme) Understanding the nature of matter

: Using Grids to compute on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke, National e-Science Centre)

GEODISE

: Grid-enabled toolkits for the engineer (Andrew Price, University of Southampton)

Integrative Biology

: Using Grid technology to tackle two Grand Challenges - the in-silico modelling of heart failure and of cancer (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)

OGSA-DAI

: Data access and integration on the Grid (Amy Krause, EPCC)

Thursday 11 th November, 10:00 - 16:00

10.15 11.15 12.15 13.15 14.15

e-Protein

: A distributed pipeline for structure-based proteome annotation using Grid technology (Mike Sternberg, Imperial College London)

The Semantic Grid

(David de Roure, University of Southampton)

GENIE

: Tuning Earth system model components using a Grid enabled data management system (Andrew Price, University of Southampton)

AstroGrid

: New technology creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory (Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge)

eDiaMoND

: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for breast cancer screening (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)

Pictures

Visitors

Afghanistan Australia Austria Brazil Canada China Czech Republic Denmark badges swiped to record their details • 902 recorded – Although the card reader was broken for a while.

– Estimate 1000

SC2003

UK japan australia korea • cf 353 at Phoenix 2003 china singapore hungary twaiwan spain austria canada germany france italy south korea turkey new zealand USA France Germany Greece Hungary India Ireland Japan Korea Netherlands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Singapore South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom USA

Other Observations

• Many other countries with booths – Countries – Netherlands, Hungary, Austria – Organisations – France, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Spain, Brazil, Australia – UK – Daresbury, EPCC, Manchester • eIRG recommended that FP6 Grid Programmes be represented in 2005

Feedback

• The overall feeling was that the stand was a success and that attending had been beneficial. • The demonstrators had all made good contacts and were grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate their work. • They also appreciated the chance to learn what is being done elsewhere by visiting the other stands at the show.

• Most people said they would like to attend again

Suggestions

• Identifiable Logo/Banner – Union Flag?

• Open up demo area – Poster areas hide the demos • Bigger displays – Plasma screen will reduce poster space • More visual talks • More guides to lead visitors to demos • Stricter management of demos

Next Year

• This year’s grant covers storage of the booth – Could be used elsewhere • Booked 40’x40’ booth for Seattle 12-18 Nov – No cost yet – Shared boundary with AIST • SC Global – Collaborative working over AG • StorCloud – Space to demo high-bandwidth