Research
Projects
Dave Berry
Research Manager
Chinese Delegation
18th Nov 2004
High Energy Physics: LHC
ATLAS
CMS
- general purpose:
origin of mass,
supersymmetry,
micro-black holes
- 2,000 scientists
from 34 countries
LHCb
- to study the
differences between
matter and
antimatter
- producing over
100 million b and bbar mesons each
year
~6-8 PetaBytes / year
~108 events/year
~103 batch and interactive users
- general prupose
detector
- muon tracking,
electromagnetic
calorimeter, central
tracking and hadron
calorimeter
ALICE
- heavy ion
collisions, to create
quark-gluon plasmas
- 50,000 particles in
each collision
The EGEE Consortium
Total of 70 full partners covering entire EU and beyond
Total budget: ~32 M€
Virtual Observatories
Observations made across entire electromagnetic spectrum
ROSAT ~keV DSS Optical 2MASS 2m IRAS 25m
IRAS 100m
Different views of a local galaxy
Need all of them to understand physics fully
Databases are located throughout the world
GB 6cm
NVSS 20cm WENSS 92cm
The Virtual Observatory
International Virtual Observatory
Alliance
UK, Australia, EU, China,
Canada, Italy, Germany, Japan,
Korea, US, Russia, France, India
How to integrate many
multi-TB collections of
heterogeneous data
distributed globally?
Mass-scale
Data Mining
BRIDGES: BioInformatics
CFG Virtual
Publically Curated Data
Ensembl
Organisation
OMIM
Glasgow
SWISS-PROT
Private
Edinburgh
MGI
VO Authorisation
data
Private
data
Oxford
HUGO
…
RGD
Leicester
DATA
HUB
Private
data
Netherlands
Synteny
Grid
Service
Private
data
London
Private
data
Private
data
+
eDiaMoND: Screening for Breast
Cancer
Patients
Radiology reporting
systems
Letters
Screening
1 Trust  Many Trusts
Collaborative Working
Audit capability
Epidemiology
Electronic
Patient Records
Case Information
Assessment/ Symptomatic
Biopsy
2ndary Capture
Or FFD
X-Rays and
Case Information
Other Modalities
-MRI
-PET
-Ultrasound
Symptomatic/Assessment
Information
eDiaMoND
Grid
Case and
Reading Information
Better access to
Case information
And digital tools
SMF
CAD
Training
Case and
Reading Information
Digital
Reading
3D Images
Supplement Mentoring
With access to digital
Training cases and sharing
Of information across
clinics
Manage Training Cases
Perform Training
SMF
CAD
Temporal Comparison
Provided by eDiamond project: Prof. Sir Mike Brady et al.
GridQTL
A portal for execution of compute-intensive,
multi-trait Quantitative Trait Loci analyses
Joint project with Institute for Evolutionary
Biology and the Roslin Institute
Funded by the BBSRC for 4.5 years
GridQTL Portal
Research Data
Analysis 3
Analysis 2
Analysis 1
Meta Scheduler
Research Data
UK e-Science Grid
or NGS Resources
Integrated Emergency Response Model
for the 21st Century
Modern fire safety engineering
for the future built environment
Example: Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire
TIME (min)
0
Events
Consequences
Fire detected
Emergency assessment too slow!
Lack of co-ordination b/w 2 sides
too many vehicles enter tunnel
10
1st Decision
15
1st Response
Traffic
stopped
Fans turned on in
wrong direction!
Enhancement of
smoke and fire
20
French Fire Br.
25
Italian Fire Br.
Intervention made
difficult
by poor initial response
39 dead!
Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire & FireGrid
TIME (min) Events
Consequences
Pre-emergency
response planning
Many scenarios
generated
Case-based
training
Co-ordination
Preparedness
x0+
Fire detected
Sensors channel
info to C&C
~1
1st Decision
Traffic stopped
Early forecasts
20
Fire Brigades
application
Use in ‘Design’ Mode
‘Emergency Response’ Mode
Select pre-designed
scenario matches
Better emergency
planning
Escalation: Alert Experts,
Commandeer resources
Better emergency
assessment
Sensor driven
simulations initialised
Emergency magnitude
minimised
Effective intervention
C&C tasks
emergency responders
Lives saved!
BinX – accessing legacy binary data
simulations
The Problem:
Many binary data files
Applications must “know”
the data format
Binary data formats are
machine-specific
Binary
Binary
Data File
Binary
Data File
Data File
The Solution:
Write a “stand-aside” format
description in XML
Provide a library to


Interpret the description
Provide file access across different
machines
Build higher-level services
BinX file
describes
binary file
structure
BinX Library
e-Science
Application