SWITCH Study Visit Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager www.nesc.ac.uk 5 October 2004

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SWITCH Study VisitDr Anna KenwayCentre
Managerwww.nesc.ac.uk5 October 2004
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NeSC Core Funding ( 9M)

• 2.5M for eSI for 5 years
• 1.3M for Core activity for 5 years
• 3M for Grid Core Projects (needed matching
  industrial funding to pull down)
• 1.6M for support of the UK community (GridNet,
  eSTORM)
• 400k for Training (matching EGEE)
• 200k for JISC Interface
• (Additional funding for specific projects.)
• GBP/EUR 1.45

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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Help establish the UKs international role
• Run the e-Science Institute
• Undertake RD projects
• Training Team

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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Outreach community building website
• Early adopters
• Help establish the UKs international role
• Run the e-Science Institute
• Undertake RD projects
• Training Team

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Community Building

• The Opening was an opportunity to bring Grids to
  the notice of the politicians (decision makers),
  the media and the research community
• We have run the biggest GGF5 to date (2001, 900
  delegates)
• The Core programme holds an annual All Hands
  meeting, which is heavily supported by NeSC

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Community Building

• Staff are involved in UK working groups
• Directors Forum
• Helped build a community
• Engineering Task Force
• Built the UK Grid
• Architecture Task Force
• UK Adoption of OGSA
• OGSA Grid Market
• Future approaches
• Security Task Force
• Database Task Force (now disbanded)
• OGSA-DAI (www.ogsadai.org.uk)
• GGF DAIS-WG
• Usability Task Force

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Websites

• We run three
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk
• http//www.allhands.org.uk
• http//www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/

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The Website(s) a Resource

• National e-Science Centre
  www.nesc.ac.uk/
• Mission, Background, Foundation, Locations,
  Staff, Resources, Projects
• Register interest, Mailing lists, NeSCForge
• Regional associations and Collaborations
• News, Notices
• Presentations and Lectures
• National e-Science Institute
  www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/
• Mission, Events (Future and Past)
• Register for Events, Visitor Programme, GridNet
• UK e-Science
• Map and Index of Centres www.nesc.ac.uk/centres/
• Technical Papers www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/
  
• Index of gt100 Projects www.nesc.ac.uk/projects/
• Task Forces www.nesc.ac.uk/teams/
• General Information
• Glossary, Bibliography, Whos who

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NeSC Web site Statistics

• Since going live in 2001 to 8 Sep 2004
• gt 4.5 million successful requests (hits)
  transferring 273 gigabytes of data (4.8 GB in
  last week)
• In last week
• Average hits per day 8593
• Distinct files served 4642
• to 3572 distinct hosts
• Average data transferred per day (702 MB)
  (typical file size about 100 kB)

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Web site Statistics
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Early Adopters

• Access Grid
• ACF Advanced Computing Facility
• A number of high performance machines
• ScotGrid, QCDOC, Lomond, Blue Dwarf a SAN
  supported by EPCC and EUCS
• Gridified
• Middleware supported by NeSC
• To be made available to the National Grid Service

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Community Building - Access Grid helping to
develop VOs
Requires IP multicast throughout the network
Crucial for multi-site project meetings
Cameras
Microphones
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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Help establish the UKs international role
• The focus for presenting UK e-Science
• Run the e-Science Institute
• Undertake RD projects
• Training Team

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Presenting UK e-Science

• Involvement in GGF
• Leading the OGSA-WG data design team, co-chairs
  of the JSDL-WG, secretary of the DAIS-WG,
  membership of the GFSG
• Involved in Supercomputing
• Involved in Globus Alliance
• International Meetings (like this)
• Partners in EGEE
• NA4 (Outreach)
• NA3 (Training Induction Lead by Malcolm
  Atkinson)
• JRA4 (Development of Network Services) Lead by
  Peter Clarke

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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Help establish the UKs international role
• Run the e-Science Institute
• A meeting place
• Workshops, conferences and events
• Support for research collaborations
• Research visitors
• Undertake RD projects
• Training Team

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A Meeting Place

• Pleasantly placed in the centre of a beautiful
  city
• People want to come here
• A user friendly environment
• Public networks, WirelessLAN, Access Grid (but
  also VRVS, Net Meeting ), Internet Café,
  hands-on Training Room
• Space for real work
• Crossing communities
• Creativity new strategies and solutions
• Written reports

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Workshops Conferences

• http//www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

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Events held in the first 3 Years(from 1 Aug 2001
to 31 Jul 2004)

• We have run just under 7 per month
• 22 project meetings
• 26 research meetings
• 76 workshops
• 4 schools
• 41 training sessions
• 41 outreach events
• 12 international meetings
• 5 conferences
• 21 e-Science management meetings

• 19,456 delegate days
• 248 events
• 8,329 delegates
• 421 event days

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A picture is worth a 1000 words
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Support for Research Projects

• e.g. AstroGrid, GridPP, ILDG, Reality Grid, Mouse
  Atlas
• By running workshops involving local and virtual
  attendees
• Funding working meetings through the visitor
  programme
• Hands on training sessions
• Running Summer Schools (training/community) for
  e-Science postgraduate students
• Running web Forums, NeSCForge, mailing lists
• Developing an MSc in e-Science

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eSI Research Visitors

• Collaborate with UK research and development
• Engage in and develop eSI event programme
• Build bridges with their community
• Visit for anywhere between one week and six
  months
• Link up with regional e-Science centres
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.html

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Becoming a Research Visitor

• Establish a collaboration with NeSC
• Pre-established mutual interests
• We encourage diversity of disciplines
• Complementary experience, knowledge and skills
• We can help match interests and develop a plan
• Visitors already engaged in relevant RD
• This is not a training opportunity
• Our support depends on the length and value of
  visit
• Typically covers travel and/or local living costs
• Application via our web site

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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Help establish the UKs international role
• Run the e-Science Institute
• Undertake RD projects
• Reliable middleware (OGSA-DAI, SunDCG, )
• Engage industry (IBM, Sun, Microsoft, HP, Oracle,
  )
• Stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology
• Training Team

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RD Projects

• (Non-exhaustive list)
• OGSA-DAI
• HPFABMAN
• SunGRID
• PGPGrid
• MS.NetGrid
• BRIDGES
• FIRSTDIG
• But we also generate a large number of reports

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Technical Reports

• The Virtual Observatory as a Data Grid, Bob Mann,
  Sep 03
• UK Experience with OGSA, Dave Berry, Sep 03
• e-Science Gap Analysis, Geoffrey Fox, David
  Walker, Jun 03
• Scientific Data Mining, Integration and
  Visualisation, Bob Mann, Roy Williams, Malcolm
  Atkinson, Ken Brodlie, Amos Storkey, Chris
  Williams, Nov 02
• A Rough Guide to Grid Security, Mike Surridge,
  Sep 02
• Multi-Site Videoconferencing for the UK e-Science
  Programme, Stephen Booth, John Brooke, Kate
  Caldwell, Liz Carver, Michael Daw, David De
  Roure, Alan Flavell, Philippe Galvez, Brian
  Gilmore, Henry Hughes, Ben Juby, Ivan Judson, Jim
  Miller, Harvey Newman, Chris Osland, Sue Rogers,
  Oct 02
• Database Access and Integration Services on the
  Grid, Norman W Paton, Malcolm P Atkinson, Vijay
  Dialani, Dave Pearson, Tony Storey, Paul Watson,
  Feb 02
• Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid A Future
  e-Science Infrastructure, David De Roure,
  Nicholas Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt, Dec 01
• Databases and the Grid, Paul Watson, Dec 01

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Technical Reports

• A Grid Application Framework based on Web
  Services Specifications and Practices, Savas
  Parastatidis, Jim Webber, Paul Watson, Thomas
  Rischbeck, Aug 03
• Grid Information Systems 2003 (Draft), Rob Allan,
  Dharmesh Chohan, Xiao Dong Wang, Andy Richards,
  Mark McKeown, John Colgrave, Matthew Dovey, Mark
  Baker, Steve Fisher, Dec 03
• Towards tractable toolkits for the Grid a plea
  for lightweight, usable middleware, Jonathan
  Chin, Peter Coveney, Feb 04
• Portals and Portlets 2003, Rob Allan, Chris Awre,
  Mark Baker, Adrian Fish, Mar 04
• IMAGE 03 Images, Medical Analysis and Grid
  Environments, Dave Berry, Derek Hill, Steve
  Pieper, Joel Saltz, Cécile Germain-Renaud, Mar 04
• Open Issues in Grid Scheduling, Alain Andrieux,
  Dave Berry, Jon Garibaldi, Stephen Jarvis,
  Djamila Ouelhadj, Mar 04
• Data Provenance and Annotation, Peter Buneman,
  Michael Wilde.
• e-Science Workflow Services, Matthew Addis, Dave
  Berry, Earl Ecklund, Carole Goble
• http//www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html

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NeSC Roles

• Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science
• Help establish the UKs international role
• Run the e-Science Institute
• Undertake RD projects
• Training Team
• Funded both by EGEE and the UK programme

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NeSC Training Team

• Training is done both at Edinburgh and elsewhere
• dedicated training team
• 5 trainers (2 funded by EGEE and 3 by JISC)
• support staff
• facilities
• more posts in the pipeline
• NeSC lead training for
• EGEE
• NextGrid
• UK e-Science

NeSC EGEE offer to extend their scope and
activities Collaborating with all EU e-Science
e-Infrastructure projects For all Training
Education Delivering for EU Citizens, Industry
Academia
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EGEE 22 Training Partners
NeSC Edinburgh UK Ireland
IHEP Moscow Russia
IMPB RAS Moscow Russia
ITEP Moscow Russia
JINR Dubna Russia
KU-NATFAK Copenhagen Denmark
PNPI Petersburgh Russia
RRCKI Moscow Russia
GUP Linz Austria
FZK Karlsruhe Germany
Innsbruck Austria
II-SAS Bratislava Slovakia
GRNET Athens Greece
ICM Warsaw Poland
PSNC Poznan Poland
ICI Bucharest Romania
BUTE Budapest Hungary
ELUB Budapest Hungary
MTA SZTAKI Budapest Hungary
TAU Tel Aviv Isreal
CESNET Prague Czech Rep.
INFN Rome Italy
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EGEE training delivery
Training Events throughout Europeand beyond!
Since April 2004 EGEE NA3 has trained 350 people
in 14 courses ranging from introductions to EGEE
(induction) through application Developer to
advanced level.
NA3 is committed to maintaining and developing
the quality of training. To do this feedback is
collected from the users of courses.
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• Any questions?