Scottish e-Science Forum 1
Stuart Anderson
Regional Director NeSC
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Summary
State the purpose of the discussion
Identify yourself
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Aims
Provide coordination and support to Scottish core
e-Science research.
Provide a UK national (and international) focus for
work on:
Grid configuration and fabric management
E-Science data management
High performance computing for e-Science
Work with Scottish e-Science projects:
GridPP – coordinated from Glasgow
AstroGrid – coordinated from Edinburgh
ScotGrid, DATATAG, EU DataGrid, …
Technology transfer with Scottish companies
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Proposed Activities
Education and training
Awareness building
Crossing the Chasm
Project work
E-Science testbeds
Industrial partners
Academic partnerships
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Education and Training
Toolkit training in association with CLRC
and e-Science Institute.
Application awareness workshops – how
e-Science technology applies in particular
areas.
Master’s training – in association with
EPCC.
Continuing Professional Development.
Grid training laboratory
Others?
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Awareness building
Identify core e-Science competencies
Identify core application competencies
Identify potential synergy in research,
products, services
Support the development of interest
groups in particular application or
technology areas.
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“Crossing the Chasm”
Currently only early adopters are
interested.
Can we enable:
The creation of application specific toolkits
Demonstrations that address the needs of
broader groups of users.
Lower entry costs through ease of use, reuse, …
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Project work
Fabric management: EUDataGrid, GridPP,
HP.
PPARC major projects: ScotGrid, GridPP,
AstroGrid
Data Management: parallel databases,
data provenance,
data/information/knowledge
Bioinformatics
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Partners
Vendors: IBM, SUN, Motorola, Agilent
Specific Scottish Partners:
Academic Partnerships:
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Resources
Cray T3E-900
SunFire 6800
Beowulf Clusters
Coming: ScotGrid
Coming: QCDOC machine
Can we start investigating Grid capability
in Scotland?
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Management
Admin/Management – vicarious on NeSC
Steering/Strategy/Policy:
Representation from Scottish bodies:
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Higher Education
Industry
Government
Enterprise Bodies
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Potential Deliverables
Early adopter community
Structure for Education and Training
Toolkits - middleware
Application specific toolkits
Industrial and commercial demonstrators
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Wider Dissemination
Domain Demonstrators
Application Specific Toolkits
SME Support
CPD activities
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Summary
We have strengths in Scotland in core Grid
technologies and in e-Science
applications.
There is considerable funding available
under DTI conditions.
Can we start to develop a strategy to
develop and coordinate Scottish eScience activity.
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Possible Groups
Scottish core Grid capabilities.
Scottish e-Science application strengths
E-Science in Education
Industry needs: training, infrastructure, …
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