UK e-Infrastructure: Widening Access, Increasing Participation

Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address] UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation ICHEC 2007, 13-14 December 2007, Dublin

Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address] UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation ICHEC 2007, 13-14 December 2007, Dublin but first… I’ll give an overview of this… and my thoughts on this…

OMII-UK: Software Solutions for e-Research ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

OMII-UK: Adding benefit to e-Science ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is UK e-Infrastructure? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

e-Infrastructure ,[object Object],but more than just the hardware

e-Science Centres in the UK Oxford Edinburgh Belfast Cambridge STFC Daresbury Manchester LeSC Newcastle Southampton Cardiff STFC Harwell Glasgow Leicester UCL Birmingham White Rose Grid Bristol Lancaster Reading Access Grid Support Centre Digital Curation Centre National Grid Service National Centre for e-Social Science National Centre for Text Mining National Institute for Environmental e-Science OMII-UK Sheffield York Leeds Coordinated by: Directors’ Forum & NeSC

e-Science is me-Science e-Science is me -Science Why share unless you gain a benefit? To share you need credit credit implies trust and trust needs provenance

The Four Levels of e-Science Enlightenment ,[object Object]

Toolkits and Middleware ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

GridPP: the UK Grid for particle physics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

GridPP: the UK Grid for particle physics ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Don’t be a banana, be a potato!

What do we need to share resources? Security Data Integration Registries Metadata is the key

What do we need to share resources? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Interoperability through standards? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ The great thing about standards is they’re so many of them to choose from!”

Uniform access to computing resources ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Campus Grid Toolkit: easy to install grid for job submission GridSAM/AHE Courtesy: Stefan Zasada

Uniform access to data resources OGSA-DAI: data integration for service providers Image courtesy SEEGEO/MoSeS

The Four Levels of e-Science Enlightenment ,[object Object],[object Object]

Taking control of the research Taverna: effortless workflows for scientists

Statistical variability Slide: Asen Asenov The simulation Paradigm now A 22 nm MOSFET In production 2008 A 4.2 nm MOSFET In production 2023

Delivering new results Simple concept I ntegrated H ierarchical S tatistical D esign Complex data and workflows D ata and C ompute I ntensive S ecurity S ensitive Slide: Richard Sinnott

The Four Levels of e-Science Enlightenment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Building better and bigger communities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Silchester Roman Town Project

Friends in the Community: OMII-UK PALs Open Source GIS Standards Data Mining Data Integration BioMoby Virtual Labs Alexander Woehrer Isao Kojima Chris Higgins Stephen McGough Mark Wilkinson Marco Roos Matthew Pocock

The Four Levels of e-Science Enlightenment ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Rise of Web 2.0 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

The Rise of Web 2.0 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

climate prediction .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 Slide: Robert Gurney The world's largest climate modelling supercomputer! (NB: a black dot is one or more computers running climate prediction .net )

From Web 2.0 back to HEC again ,[object Object],Capturing and improving scholarly process is difficult Modelling the spread of insect borne disease

Different Aspects for Different Users Applied Technology Specialists e-Infrastructure e-Researchers (domain & generic) Providers

Scientific flexibility not mechanistic complexity ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

ENGAGE: developing new users of e-Infrastructure ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Use and Deployment Development and Integration Interventions Training Support Design Document and Disseminate Study Practice, Barriers, Enablers and Requirements ENGAGE www.engage.ac.uk

What do we mean by integration? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Metadata is still the key but it is not a purely technical problem

Increasing access, widening participation People Infrastructure Tools Standards Research Output

UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address]

OMII-UK: For all kinds of users Taverna: effortless workflows for scientists OGSA-DAI: data integration for service providers PAG: AG videoconferencing for anyone Campus Grid Toolkit: easy to install grid for job submission

Evolution National Global European e-Infrastructure Slide: Neil Geddes Testbeds Utility Service Routine Usage

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