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Science & Innovation 2015: Frictionless Sharing - The New Normal? 1

Frictionless sharing: The new normal?Science & Innovation 2015

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Themes

Frictionless sharing:The new normal?

1. About Jisc2. Case Studies

– HPC brokerage– Equipment sharing– Shared data centre

3. Panel discussion

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3. Panel discussion

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About Jisc

About Jisc:› Registered charity championing the use of digital

technologies in research, education and skills

› Range of shared services, advice and support for UK institutions, e.g.– Janet: World leading network, with eduroam global wireless roaming– Cloud brokerage: Making Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds

easier to use– Assent: Log in with your institutional credentials to any service, from

anywhere– Reach: Industrial connectivity to Janet, at speeds up to 10Gbit/s– Safe Share: Supporting sensitive data sharing for research, e.g.

biomedical data

› Working with RCUK and Innovate UK to accelerate innovation

› Just launched: shared data centre, asset sharing initiative

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About Jisc » Janet network

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About Jisc » eduroam

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About Jisc » Amazon portal

Amazon cloud portal:› Monthly invoicing - credit cards are

no longer required for payment

› Itemized billing - consolidated across users/departments

› Billing in GBP, not dollars

› Setting of budget limits for individual user accounts or departments

› The retrieval of service usage information within own areas of responsibility

› Volume-discounts through aggregation across multiple educational institutions

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About Jisc » Assent

Assent:› Single, unifying technology that

enables you to effectively manage and control access to a wide range of web and non-web services and applications.

› These include cloud infrastructures, High Performance Computing, Grid Computing and commonly deployed services such as email, file store, remote access and instant messaging

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About Jisc » Reach

Reach:› £4M funding from BIS to work

towards a Janet which is"open and accessible" toindustry

› Provides industry access touniversity e-infrastructurefacilities to facilitate furtherinvestment in science,engineering and technologywith the active participationof business and industry

› Modelled on Innovate UKcompetition process

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About Jisc » Safe Share

Safe Share:› Providing and building services on

encrypted VPN infrastructure between organisations

› Enhanced confidentiality and integrity requirements per ISO27001

› Requirement to move electronic health data securely and support research collaboration

› Working with biomedical researchers at Farr Institute, MRC Medical Bioinformatics initiative, ESRC Administrative Data Centres

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3. Panel discussion

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Case Study » HPC brokerage

HPC brokerage:› Access to £60m of public investment in

supercomputing equipment and expertise– Reduce friction of sharing between institutions & with

industry

– “Pay as you go” model, no upfront capital costs

– Makes HPC accessible to those who could not previously contemplate it

– Standardized terms and conditions including information assurance, intellectual property, termination etc

› HPC is really a test case – could we apply this approach more generally, building on the Brunswick Agreements?

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James Earl-Fraser,HPC Midlands› EPSRC regional centre of excellence in

High Performance Computing

› Operated by Loughborough Universityand University of Leicester

› Builds on long standing industrialcollaborations, e.g. E.ON, Rolls-Royce

› Offers a wide range of open source andcommercial off-the-shelf software onattractive licensing terms

› Partnering with Jisc to share equipment and expertise

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Case Study » Equipment sharing

Equipment sharing:› Working with EPSRC to create an

“one stop shop” for sharingresearch equipment

› Piloting Kit-Catalogue equipmentdatabase with 10 institutions

› Kit-Catalogue feeds into national equipment.data.ac.uk portal– Sharing details of 10,000 items of high

value equipment, value >£200m

› Newcastle University alone issharing £16m+ of >£20K valueequipment

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Case Study » Equipment sharing

Dr Jacky Pallas,Director of Research Platforms, UCL› 502 items of equipment ‘public’ in our Research

Equipment Catalogue (30% of total)

› 41% of UCL’s research facilities offer services to other academic groups and 29% offer services to industry and gov’t agencies– External academic users 12.4% of activity, 8.4%

income– Industry services 12.1% activity, 9.4% income

› Estimated value of ‘shared’ equipment >£50M

› All data collected annually through TRAC exercise– Reduced admin burden

Photo credit: University College London

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3. Panel discussion

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Case Study » Shared data centre

› £900K investment from HEFCE

› Anchor tenants:– Francis Crick Institute– King’s College London– London School of Economics– Queen Mary University of London– Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute– University College London

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Case Study » Shared data centre

Dr David Fergusson,Head of Scientific Computing,Francis Crick Institute› Challenges of providing shared platforms

for staff from existing institutes– CRUK London Research Institute– National Institute for Medical Research

› Compute and data requirements for 1,250 scientists working in biomed– In a central London building

› Direction of travel towards more and wider collaboration, requirement for controlled sharing of sensitive data

Photo credit: Francis Crick Institute

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Panel discussion

Dr Jeremy Yates, STFC DiRAC & SKA:› The National e-Infrastructure for research &

innovation– A 60,000 foot view

– Democratisation & Aggiornamento

› Moving to a more cloud-centric view ofscientific computing

› Scientific computing that is not “HPC”

› Changing the culture around ResearchSoftware Engineering

› Making industrial access to facilities the norm

› Inter-disciplinary science – blockers and enablers

Image credit: Courtesy of EPSRC

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