http://www.e-science.le.ac.uk/
CoE Meeting
NeSC,
Edinburgh
06-Nov-2003
Presented by:
Tony Linde
Personnel
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Sys Admin:
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Tony Linde
Mike Watson
Andrew King
John Pye
Stuart Poulton
Clive Page
Stuart Poulton
Chris Rudge
Pete Wheatley
Richard West
Graham Wynn
Leicester e-Science Centre
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Co-Directors
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Dr Mike Watson
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Astrophysicist at Leicester University
Extensive project management of space projects
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Applications software for astronomy
Astronomical database systems
Leicester LI on the AstroGrid project
Tony Linde
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30 years IT
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Developer, Analyst, Consultant, Project Manager, …
Commercial information systems development
AstroGrid Project Manager
Introduced wiki to e-Science ecosystem: now running wild!
Leicester e-Science Centre
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Status
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Access Grid
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Equipment procured
Interim installation: Dec/Jan
Final installation: Summer 2004
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Staffing
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SRIF II funds for purpose-built accomodation
RA tba: Jan/Feb 2004
Resources
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SRIF II: 256 node cluster being procured
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Deployed to e-Science GRID
Server & personal equipment procured
Negotiating 3D visualisation equipment/software
Leicester e-Science Centre
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Aims
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Focus for e-Science
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on the campus
in the East Midlands
e-Science development
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Applications
Middleware
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Fields of Excellence in e-Science
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LEDAS
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UKAFF
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Well established astronomical data centre
Î Data Archiving & Curation
National facility
Î Numerical Modeling & Visualisation
SRC
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06-Nov-2003
Space projects instrumentation (Beagle 2)
Î Computer-Aided Design/Manufacture
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XMM-Newton
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AstroGrid
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Science survey centre
Î Data-processing pipelines
Î Analysis software
PPARC funded national e-Science project
Î Distributed Project Management & Collaboration
Î Data mining, Workflow, Virtual storage, …
National Space Centre
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Î Outreach
Leicester e-Science Centre
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Initial Focus: Numerical Modeling
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Fluid Dynamics
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Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
Applications:
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Theoretical Astrophysics (neutron star merging)
Gravity solvers
Boundary solvers (dam)
Engineering (pipes)
Wave modeling
Computer games/graphics (CGI)
Leicester e-Science Centre
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e-Science Developments
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Common file formats and data conventions for
numerical modeling
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How modeling codes can be modified to run in a grid
environment
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Long-term effort
International coordination required
Get existing Fortran code to run
Write optimum code for Grid environment
Develop/document coding approach
Server-based visualisation (3D)
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06-Nov-2003
Using above common file formats
Streaming to client
Leicester e-Science Centre
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Other e-Science activities
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SchoolGrid involvement
with AstroGrid
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Upload & execute code (non-grid)
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06-Nov-2003
Scripted VM?
Leicester e-Science Centre
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