A talk given at the ICHEC Annual Seminar by Neil Chue Hong, reflecting on the rise of Grid and Web 2.0, and how this might enable increased participation and use of computing infrastructure for e-Science and research.
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UK e-Infrastructure: Widening Access, Increasing Participation
1. Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address] UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation ICHEC 2007, 13-14 December 2007, Dublin
2. Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address] UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation ICHEC 2007, 13-14 December 2007, Dublin but first… I’ll give an overview of this… and my thoughts on this…
9. e-Science Centres in the UK Oxford Edinburgh Belfast Cambridge STFC Daresbury Manchester LeSC Newcastle Southampton Cardiff STFC Harwell Glasgow Leicester UCL Birmingham White Rose Grid Bristol Lancaster Reading Access Grid Support Centre Digital Curation Centre National Grid Service National Centre for e-Social Science National Centre for Text Mining National Institute for Environmental e-Science OMII-UK Sheffield York Leeds Coordinated by: Directors’ Forum & NeSC
10. e-Science is me-Science e-Science is me -Science Why share unless you gain a benefit? To share you need credit credit implies trust and trust needs provenance
16. What do we need to share resources? Security Data Integration Registries Metadata is the key
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20. Uniform access to data resources OGSA-DAI: data integration for service providers Image courtesy SEEGEO/MoSeS
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22. Taking control of the research Taverna: effortless workflows for scientists
23. Statistical variability Slide: Asen Asenov The simulation Paradigm now A 22 nm MOSFET In production 2008 A 4.2 nm MOSFET In production 2023
24. Delivering new results Simple concept I ntegrated H ierarchical S tatistical D esign Complex data and workflows D ata and C ompute I ntensive S ecurity S ensitive Slide: Richard Sinnott
28. Friends in the Community: OMII-UK PALs Open Source GIS Standards Data Mining Data Integration BioMoby Virtual Labs Alexander Woehrer Isao Kojima Chris Higgins Stephen McGough Mark Wilkinson Marco Roos Matthew Pocock
33. climate prediction .net Users Worldwide >300,000 users total (90% MS Windows): >60,000 active ~17 million model-years simulated (as of September '06) ~180,000 completed simulations Slide: Robert Gurney The world's largest climate modelling supercomputer! (NB: a black dot is one or more computers running climate prediction .net )
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35. Different Aspects for Different Users Applied Technology Specialists e-Infrastructure e-Researchers (domain & generic) Providers
41. UK e-Infrastructure: increasing access, widening participation Neil Chue Hong Director, OMII-UK [email_address]
42. OMII-UK: For all kinds of users Taverna: effortless workflows for scientists OGSA-DAI: data integration for service providers PAG: AG videoconferencing for anyone Campus Grid Toolkit: easy to install grid for job submission
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44. Evolution National Global European e-Infrastructure Slide: Neil Geddes Testbeds Utility Service Routine Usage