IBM & HSBC visit
Malcolm Atkinson
Director
& e-Science Envoy
UK National e-Science Centre
& e-Science Institute
www.nesc.ac.uk
30th March 2006
Overview
Background
UK-Science, NeSC & eSI
History
IBM & e-Science in Scotland
Example Projects
BRIDGES
OGSA-DAI
NanoCMOS-Grid
Future thinking
The e-Science
Centres
Globus Alliance
Open
Middleware
Infrastructure
Institute - UK
e-Science
Institute
Digital
Curation
Centre
CeSC (Cambridge)
EGEE,
ChinaGrid
Geographical distribution of courses
Enabling Grids for E-sciencE
INFSO-RI-508833
30 March 2006
History of a good partnership
Nick Donofrio supported our bid
May 2001 for NeSC and eSI
Provided IT infrastructure
Secondment part time of Dr Andy Knox
From IBM Greenock August 2001 to December 2004
Started OGSA-DAI project with IBM
February 2002
IBM Blue Gene Conference held at eSI
March 2002
IBM Donation of a P690 for e-Science
Edinburgh February 2003
IBM Strategy Group meeting May 2003
Started BRIDGES project joint with IBM
September 2003
IBM supported OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK node &
e-Science Institute 5-year
BRIDGES
CFG Virtual
Publically Curated Data
Ensembl
Organisation
OMIM
Glasgow
SWISS-PROT
Private
Edinburgh
MGI
VO Authorisation
Private
data
Oxford
Synteny
Grid
Service
HUGO
…
RGD
Leicester
DATA
HUB
OGSA-DAI
Private
data
data
Information
Integrator
Private
data
Netherlands
Private
data
London
Private
data
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OGSA-DAI
£3 million, 18 months, from Feb 2002
Three major releases, three interim
releases
DAIT (DAI-Two)
Keep the OGSA-DAI brand name
£1.5 million, 24 months,
from Oct 2003
Four major releases
OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK node
Merger with myGrid & OMII
£1.8 million, 3 years from Nov. 2005
GGF DAIS WG
Strong involvement.
Standardise the interfaces
OGSA-DAI to be a reference
implementation
UK e-Science Presentations China
3rd December 2005
The OGSA-DAI Team
EPCC Team, Edinburgh NeSC, Edinburgh
Prof Kai Nan
Computer Network Information Centre
Chinese Academy of Sciences
NEReSC, Newcastle
Dr Yongwei Wu
Department of Computing Science
Tsinghua University
ESNW, Manchester
IBM Development Team, Hursley IBM Dissemination Team
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Working with the IBM academy
The future of e-Science
Advanced models of sustainable, flexible and
multi-purpose e-Infrastructures
Integrating data and knowledge
Dynamic and pervasive systems
Persistent functions on evolving technologies
Like the global telecommunications systems