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UK e-Science Programme

UK e-Science Programme. Neil Geddes PPARC Director, e-Science. ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils

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UK e-Science Programme

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  1. UK e-Science Programme Neil GeddesPPARC Director, e-Science ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and Technology ‘[The Grid] intends to make access to computing power, scientific data repositories and experimental facilities as easy as the Web makes access to information.’Tony Blair, 2002

  2. First Phase: 2001 –2004 Application Projects £74M All areas of science and engineering Core Programme £15M + £20M (DTI) Collaborative industrial projects Second Phase: 2004 –2006 Application Projects £96M All areas of science and engineering Core Programme £16M + ? Core Grid Middleware Data Curation Industrial projects UK e-Science Programme

  3. UK e-ScienceProjects: First Phase Particle Physics and Astronomy (PPARC) - Mission Critical • GRIDPP • ASTROGRID • Grid-1D Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC) – Pilots, new ways of working • Comb-e-Chem • DAME • DiscoveryNet • GEODISE • myGrid • RealityGrid • Natural Environment Applications (NERC) -Deployment + exemplar • Climateprediction.com • GODIVA Oceanographic Grid • e-Minerals Molecular Environmental Grid • NERC DataGrid • GENIE

  4. UK e-e-Science Projects:First phase • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences (BBSRC) • Biomolecular Grid • Proteome Annotation Pipeline • High-Throughput Structural Biology • Global Biodiversity Medical Applications (MRC) - Exemplars • Biology of Ageing (with BBSRC) • Sequence and Structure Data • Molecular Genetics • Cancer Management (with PPARC) • Clinical e-Science Framework • Neuroinformatics Modeling Tools

  5. SuperJANET4

  6. CMS LHCb ATLAS CMS UK Grid for Particle Physics Phase-2: 25 TFLOP++ UK Grid for Particle Physics GridPP www.gridpp.ac.uk

  7. UK “Core Programme” Edinburgh Glasgow DL Newcastle Belfast Manchester Cambridge Oxford Hinxton RAL Cardiff London Southampton • UK e-Science Grid and e-Science Institute • Training programme, Research seminars • www.nesc.ac.uk • Network of e-Science Centres • Core e-Science grid • Regional expertise • Grid resources (+Access Grid) • Industrial projects • Support for e-Science Projects • Grid Support Centre • Grid Network Team • National certificate Authority • Development of Generic Grid Middleware • Grid Grand Challenge Projects (IRC’s) • Outreach and International Involvement • DTI’s GO programme

  8. Industrial Involvement • Over 80 UK companies participating Over £30M industrial contributions • IT Companies • Sun, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, SGI, HP, Fujitsu, Cisco • Major End User Companies • Rolls Royce, Data Systems and Solutions, BAESystems, Shell, Siemens, GSK, Astra-Zeneca, Pfizer, Merck, Schlumberger, BT, … • SME’s • NAG, Cybula, Compusys, Mesophotonics, Fluent, Epistemics, Mirada, ….

  9. Phase 2 • From Prototype to production • Integration of Particle Physics/Core programme/other grids • UK Grid = ? TFLOP + 10 TFLOP HPC • Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE) • -> Production system for LHC • Grid Operations Centre, CA, Security Operations, Network Monitoring • e-Science Institute • Core Middleware engineering • Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute • National Data Curation Centre • e-Science Exemplars/New Opportunities • Medium/long term Computer Science research • Outreach and International involvement

  10. Core Grid Support Core Grid Services Campus Grid UK e-Science Grid(s) UK e-Science Production Grid(s) (SLA’s) Inter campus (VO) Grid Almost by definition, a successful Grid or e-Infrastructure will only “own” a small part of the available (intgerated) resources Campus Grid Campus Grid

  11. Looking Beyond 2006 • Persistent UK e-Science Research Grid • Integrated with international grids • Grid Operations/Support Centre • Core Infrastructure • UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute • National e-Science Institute • UK Digital Curation Centre • AccessGrid Support Service • e-Science/Grid collaboratories Legal Service • International Standards Activity

  12. Access Policies Still a developing area • GridPP • Authentication • Anyone in a collaborating institute can get a UK certificate • Any valid (DataGrid) cert can authenticate to the resources on GridPP • Authorisation • Authority to use the resources is controlled by local policy • Based on the users Virtual Organisations (experiments) • LCG access policy • Resources construct local authorisations based on VO’s they choose to allow/support • Not fully yet there • Must include accounting in future

  13. Access Policies -2 • Core e-Science Grid • Authentication • The UK CA Policy document says.... • "The e-Science CA issues certificates for e-Science activities funded by the UK Research Councils. The CA will issue personal, server and service certificates.“ • Authorisation • Core grid nodes • Any scientists have access via a UK Digital Certificate. • At the start it will be on a first come basis. • More formal policy if demand is overwhelming (e.g. HPCX) • Other resources Currently informal • Definite commitment in future • SLA for production Grid

  14. Issues • Greatest barriers to wide-scale e-infrastructure are not (only) technical, but human and bureaucratic. • Natural resistance among system managers, group leaders, Institute Heads etc to "give away" resources to people outside their institutions. • Manifests itself in very rigid security and acceptable use policies • E.g. only users who attend the helpdesk in person and sign a form can be given access • This paranoia is enhanced by legitimate concerns about hackers. • Complicated by project based funding for many resources • Often you are simply not allowed to share the resources by the agency which paid for them. • Much privacy, IPR and data protection legislation, tends to inhibit openess in general, and filesharing mechanisms in particular. • “Collaborative projects are good for scientific advance, but bad for making money by capturing IPR.”

  15. Simple Example TeraGyroid prize winning demo at SC2003 • Grid linked UK Supercomputers and remote visualisation centres • UK CSAR (Manchester U.) + HPCX (Daresbury Lab.) • US ETF (Illinois, Pittsburgh, San Diego) • Allowed scientists to interact with the computer models as they evolved in real time. • Lattice Boltzmann fluid flow calculations • Demo’d for 72 hours ! • Won a prize • Can not do it right now !

  16. Conclusions • UK e-Science programme now in it’s 3rd year • Broad take up across science and industry • Moving from prototype to Production • There is demand for common tools/services • Common goals help to drive access + sharing • Real issues around security and IPR • Sometimes connected to current lack of robustess

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