th November 2004

Goal: to enable better research in all applications
Method: Invention and exploitation of advanced computational methods to generate, curate and analyse research data
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From experiments, observations and simulations
Quality management, preservation and reliable evidence to develop and explore models and simulations
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Computation and data at extreme scales
Trustworthy, economic, timely and relevant results to enable dynamic distributed virtual organisations
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Facilitating collaboration with information and resource sharing
Security, reliability, accountability, manageability and agility
Does e-Science warrant new collaborations?

Enabling People to Work Together on Challenging Projects: Science, Engineering & Medicine

Total: £213M
+ £100M via JISC
EPSRC Breakdown
EPSRC (£77.7M)
37%
CLRC (£10M)
5%
MRC (£21.1M)
10% HPC (£11.5M)
BBSRC (£18M)
15%
8%
45%
Staff costs -
Grid Resources
Computers & Network funded separately
Core (£31.2M)
27%
NERC (£15M)
7%
ESRC (£13.6M)
6%
+ Industrial Contributions £25M
Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST)

Globus Alliance e-Science
Institute
National
Centre for e-Social
Science
Digital
Curation
Centre
Open
Middleware
Infrastructure
Institute
Grid
Operations
Support
Centre
CeSC (Cambridge)
EGEE
National
Institute for
Environmental e-Science

EGEE: Enabling Grids for E-Science in Europe
… and beyond
32M Euro, 10 regions, 70 partners
Additional funding from NSF (USA)
50% production, 30% development, and 20% dissemination and training
“The Grid Infrastructure in Europe”
Deploy a production Grid across Europe
Initially based on LHC Computing Grid
UK NGS will converge and run same e-Infrastructure

A highly successful collaborative effort
VDT Working Group
VDS (Chimera/Pegasus) team
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Provides the “V” in VDT
Condor Team
Globus Alliance
NMI Build and Test team
EDG/LCG/EGEE
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Middleware, testing, patches, feedback …
PPDG
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Hardening and testing
Pacman
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Provides easy installation capability
Currently Pacman 2, moving to
Pacman 3 soon
Thanks to Miron Livny
Used by many projects
Systematic testing
Rich integration of components
China should be part of this – exploit test bed contribute components
Productise our M/W with this testing & packaging

1 st & 2 nd International Grid Summer
Schools
Built on CERN Summer school
Experience
International collaboration
- GGF
- Multi-national Sponsors
-High profile engaging teachers
Carefully Designed Syllabus
This year’s event was attended by 84 selected advanced students – from all around the world

Put people and teams first
Invest in building a community
The creative force
The repository of Experience, Skills and Knowledge
Focus on Major Priorities
Developing well-defined Flexible Agreements
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Embraced as standards
High-level Software Investment
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Applications & Requirements led
Explore & Evolve Common & Shared Infrastructure
Recognise and respond to differences
Celebrate and support commonalities
International Collaboration Essential
Global Research
Standards and interoperation

Data Intensive X Scientists
Data Intensive Applications for Science X
Simulation, Analysis & Integration Technology for Science X
Generic Virtual Data Access and Integration Layer
Job Submission Brokering Workflow
Registry Banking
OGSA
Data Transport Resource Usage Transformation
Structured Data
Integration
OGSA-DAI
Structured Data Access
Grid or Web Service Infrastructure
Compute, Data & Storage Resources
Structured Data
Relational XML Semi-structured
Distributed
Virtual Integration Architecture

PDB Content Growth

Biochemical Pathway Simulator
(Computing Science, Bioinformatics, Beatson Cancer Research Labs)
Walter Kolch
Closing the information loop – between lab and computational model.
DTI Bioscience Beacon Project http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/news/pressreleases/scottishscientists_22july04
Slide from Muffy Calder, Glasgow

e-Science Institute Figures for 3 Years
We have run just under 7 per month
(up from just over 6 average for first two years)
19,456 delegate days
248 events
8,329 delegates (many ‘repeats’)
421 event days (in  750 working days)
Further statistics exclude GGF5, as we did not handle registration so cannot do a detailed analysis.

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900
800
700
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Other
Australasia
North America
Europe (non UK)
UK (Other)
AC.UK
Involvement in EGEE reflected in increase in EU participation

E-Science is for everybody & every discipline
Environment, health, safety, design, science, humanities
To enable it
Build “people grids”
Educate & train
And “institution e-Infrastructures”
The Technology
Will support useful work now
But still too hard to use & hard to sustain
Work on the Technology
Middleware, Portals, Security, Networks collaboratively