CoE Meeting NeSC, Edinburgh 06-Nov-2003

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http//www.e-science.le.ac.uk/

• CoE MeetingNeSC,Edinburgh06-Nov-2003

Presented byTony Linde
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Personnel

• Co-Directors Tony Linde Mike Watson
• Assoc Directors Andrew King John Pye
• Sys Admin Stuart Poulton
• Also involved
• Clive Page
• Stuart Poulton
• Chris Rudge
• Pete Wheatley
• Richard West
• Graham Wynn

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Co-Directors

• Dr Mike Watson
• Astrophysicist at Leicester University
• Extensive project management of space projects
• Applications software for astronomy
• Astronomical database systems
• Leicester LI on the AstroGrid project
• Tony Linde
• 30 years IT
• Developer, Analyst, Consultant, Project Manager,
  
• Commercial information systems development
• AstroGrid Project Manager
• Introduced wiki to e-Science ecosystem now
  running wild!

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Status

• Access Grid
• Equipment procured
• Interim installation Dec/Jan
• Final installation Summer 2004
• SRIF II funds for purpose-built accomodation
• Staffing
• RA tba Jan/Feb 2004
• Resources
• SRIF II 256 node cluster being procured
• Deployed to e-Science GRID
• Server personal equipment procured
• Negotiating 3D visualisation equipment/software

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Aims

• Focus for e-Science
• on the campus
• in the East Midlands
• e-Science development
• Applications
• Middleware

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Fields of Excellence in e-Science

• LEDAS
• Well established astronomical data centre
• ? Data Archiving Curation
• UKAFF
• National facility
• ? Numerical Modeling Visualisation
• SRC
• Space projects instrumentation (Beagle 2)
• ? Computer-Aided Design/Manufacture

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• XMM-Newton
• Science survey centre
• ? Data-processing pipelines
• ? Analysis software
• AstroGrid
• PPARC funded national e-Science project
• ? Distributed Project Management Collaboration
• ? Data mining, Workflow, Virtual storage,
• National Space Centre
• ? Outreach

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Initial Focus Numerical Modeling

• Fluid Dynamics
• Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)
• Applications
• Theoretical Astrophysics (neutron star merging)
• Gravity solvers
• Boundary solvers (dam)
• Engineering (pipes)
• Wave modeling
• Computer games/graphics (CGI)

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e-Science Developments

• Common file formats and data conventions for
  numerical modeling
• Long-term effort
• International coordination required
• How modeling codes can be modified to run in a
  grid environment
• Get existing Fortran code to run
• Write optimum code for Grid environment
• Develop/document coding approach
• Server-based visualisation (3D)
• Using above common file formats
• Streaming to client

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Other e-Science activities

• SchoolGrid involvement
• with AstroGrid
• Upload execute code (non-grid)
• Scripted VM?