UCISA:
How do I Grid Enable my University?
Welcome
Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk
23rd October 2003
www.nesc.ac.uk
NeSC in the UK
Globus
Alliance
National
e-Science
Centre
HPC(x)
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
Daresbury Lab
Directors’ Forum
Helped build a community
Engineering Task Force
Grid Support Centre
Architecture Task Force
UK Adoption of OGSA
OGSA Grid Market
Workflow Management
Database Task Force
OGSA-DAI
GGF DAIS-WG
Manchester
Cambridge
Hinxton
Oxford
Cardiff
RAL
London
Southampton
Events held in the 2nd Year
(from 1 Aug 2002 to 31 Jul 2003)
We have had 86 events: (Year 1 figures in brackets)
11 project meetings
( 4)
11 research meetings
( 7) > 3600 Participant Days
25 workshops
(17 + 1)
2 “summer” schools
(0)
Establishing a training
team
15 training sessions
(8)
12 outreach events
(3)
Suggestions always
welcome
5 international meetings
(1)
5 e-Science management meetings (7)
(though the definitions are fuzzy!)
Foundation for e-Science
e-Science methodologies will rapidly transform
science, engineering, medicine and business
driven by exponential growth (×1000/decade)
X
enabling a whole-system approach
computers
software
Grid
sensor nets
instruments
Diagram derived from
Ian Foster’s slide
colleagues
Shared data
archives
Three-way Alliance
Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabled
Consortia, Cultures & Societies
Theory
Models & Simulations
→
Shared Data
Requires Much
Computing Science
Engineering,
Systems, Notations &
Much Innovation Formal Foundation
Experiment &
Advanced Data
Collection
→
Shared Data
Changes Culture,
New Mores,
New Behaviours
→ Process & Trust
New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards
Your Challenge
Enable that Three-Way Alliance
For all researchers, analysts and designers
X
And their students
For all disciplines
Dynamic Problem-driven multi-organisation consortia
In an Affordable and Safe way
Realistic staff and user requirements
Reliable and Protected
Fairly accounted — Trustworthy authentication
No new vulnerabilities
The Grid is a First Step
Not the goal