OMII-UK Collaborations
Workshop 2009
CSP Meeting 2008 courtesy of Martin Turner
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email: info@omii.ac.uk
Overview
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Background
Aims
Meeting Format
Topics
Timetable
Topic Sessions
Possible Outcomes
Where next?
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Background
• In 2008 we had:
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OMII-UK f2f meeting here at NeSC
• Meeting had format we will use for this meeting
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Commissioned Software Programme (CSP ) day
• A set of presentation and some discussion
• Both meetings were successful
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Lots of enthusiasm
Exchange of ideas
Outcomes
• s/w components, collaborations, new ideas…
• Good to try same on a bigger scale
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Aims
• Have fun
• Have a lot of expertise in this room
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Service providers
Software developers
End users, etc
• Exploit possible synergies
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Exchange ideas
Establish informal collaborations
Advance e-Research
• Establish collaborations
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Meeting Format
• Have a set of starting topics (21)
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Not a final list
• New topics can be introduced throughout the meeting
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Topic valid if two or more people are interested
• Topics discussed at break-out sessions
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Break-out sessions last roughly 90 minutes
• At the end of each session:
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Gather together again.
Each group reports back and determines:
• Group continues
• Topic exhausted and group will disband
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Topics
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Porting Applications to the NGS
Portals/VREs and the NGS linking applications and tools to
the NGS for users
Firewalls and communities - NHS
challenges and solutions
Providing Security in eInfrastructure to Meet the Needs
of e-Research
Facilitating Collaborations tooling and processes
Providing Security in eInfrastructure to Meet the Needs
of e-Research
Communication problems
between computer scientists and
scientist who use computers
What have scientists got from eScience so far, and what do they
want?
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SLAs in e-Science: necessity or •
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Low Barrier Access Grid
(LowBAG)
An Open Standards-based Scalable
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Heavy Lifting Data Transfer
Service for e-Research
Capitalising on the OGF
Parameter Sweep JSDL Extension •
Specification
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Code strengthening modularising, APIs and wrapping:
the OMII-UK approach
Open Source/Open Development
Repositories, archives and
libraries
Visualisation, annotation and
Grids
Evaluating the OMII-UK software
testing process
Accelerating the deployment and
uptake of open source tools by
the e-Research community: what
are the priorities for products,
services and support?
Improving communication with
CSPs, PALs and partner
organisations
What support should we provide?
Application Support vs User
Support
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Timetable
Day 1
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09:30 OMII-UK Introduction and Vision
Newhaven
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10:00 Overview and Process for the two days &
Initial Selection of Break out sessions Newhaven
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10:30 Coffee break
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11:00 Breakout session Various rooms
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12:30 Lunch and Poster Session Chapter House
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14:00 Summary of Breakout sessions continue/stop Newhaven
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14:30 Breakout sessions Various rooms
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15:00 Coffee
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15:30 Summary of Breakout session continue/stop Newhaven
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16:00 Continuation/new breakout sessions
Various rooms
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17:30 Summary of Breakout session continue/stop Newhaven
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18:00 Close
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19:30 Conference Meal Hotel du Vin,
11 Bristo Place
Day 2
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09:00 Start Meeting - Summary of Progress
Newhaven
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09:30 Continuation/new breakout sessions
Various rooms
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10:30 Coffee
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11:00 Summary of Breakout session continue/stop
Newhaven
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11:30 Continuation/new breakout sessions
Various rooms
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13:00 Lunch and Poster Session
Chapterhouse
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14:00 Continuation/new breakout sessions
Various rooms
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15:00 Coffee
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15:30 Summaries and drawing conclusions
Newhaven
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16:00 Close
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Topic Sessions
• Each topic needs:
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Leader/facilitator
Scribe
Enthusiastic participants
• Record discussion
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Summarise in slides
• Important to have a record of discussion
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Produce this at the meeting
Can substantiate later if required
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Reporting Back
• Report back at the end of each session
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Suggest whether group will continue/move on
Suggest any new topics for consideration
• If group finishing would like the following info:
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Overview of the topic and discussion
Any outcomes
Any future work/recommendations
Further resources/information needed
Template at: http://www.omii.ac.uk/wiki/CollaborationsWorkshop09
• Important to have a record at this meeting
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Possible Outcomes…
• Written snapshot of e-Research
• Awareness of what other groups are doing
• Possible synergies to be exploited
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Leading to collaborations …
• Understanding of end-user/service providers
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Requirements
Expectation
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Where to Next?
• This type of meeting is an experiment
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Did work for you?
Should we try such a meeting again?
• Need to summarise output from this meeting
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Record keeping important!
• Hopefully establish collaborations
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Careful about your time
• Most of all hope you have a good time
• Over to Steve for the first set of topics …
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