NeSC Review

Centre Report

Peter ClarkeDeputy Director

October 11th 2004

Contents

Overview of activities Achievement against ObjectivesIssues raised in last report

Mission of the NeSC

Mission Statement:

To stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.

To identify and support e-Science projects within and between institutions in Scotland, and to provide the appropriate technical infrastructure and support in order to ensure rapid uptake of e-Science techniques by Scottish scientists.

To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications.

To develop advances in scientific data curation and analysis and to be a primary source of top quality systems and repositories that enable management, sharing and best use of research data.

Regional role

Training

Events

Outreach & website

Industrypartnership

Visitorsprogramme

Research & projects

Standards

Int’natnl Prestige

Advanced Computing

Infrastructure

Computational Science

Applications Informatics/CS Foundations

JISC liaison

ETF

Report Series

IEC KTN

EGEE

BIRN

DCC

AHM

SC

Activities Map

UK e-ScienceDevelopment

Buildings

Staff

investment

NeSC/eSI

Foundations

Value added

MSc

eDIKT EDINA

EPCC

GRID Summer School

Commerc-ialisation

CS Applications

NGS role

E-Health initiatives

SBRN

GU bioinformatics

research institute

Other projects

Regional role

Training

Events

Outreach & website

Industrypartnership

Visitorsprogramme

Research & projects

Standards

Int’natnl Prestige

Advanced Computing

Infrastructure

Computational Science

ApplicationsInformatics/CS Foundations

JISC liaison

ETF

Report Series

IEC KTN

EGEE

BIRN

DCC

AHM

SC

UK e-ScienceDevelopment

Buildings

Staff

investment

MSc

eDIKT

EDINA

EPCC

GRID Summer School

Commerc-ialisation

CS Applications

NGS role

E-Health initiatives

SBRN

GU bioinformatics

research institute

Other projects

A.Trew, R.Sinnott

InfrastructureNGS EGEE

D.Fergusson

Training

M.Parsons

Industry commerciali

sation

A.Kenway

eSI events and

outreach

Projects

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P.Stansfield

IEC opportunities

Achievement against Objectives

Activity: Event Programme

Objective: Deliver a series of events to develop e-Science understanding, skills and uptake.

Must balance over disciplines & between CS & applicationsMust balance between knowledge propagation & knowledge creationMust satisfying participants and stakeholdersMust be of nationally & internationally recognised value

Achievement: See A.Kenway presentationSummary:

7 events/month sustained ~ 19,500 delegate days Very Broad range of scope and length Attendees from government, healthcare, industry,…..and many more … Most recent:

– JISC WSDL course given at Stafford– Board of SWITCH (SWISS JISC+UKERNA) hosted for fact finding mission– CONDOR 1 week workshop this week

KPIAttendance days £-equivalent (~£4 million)Frequency of return visits Efficiency: Duty Cycle of the Institute premises (70%)

Some events …

ACTIVITY: Visitors Programme

Objective: To encourage overseas e-Scientists to come to the UK for short and long term visits for the purpose of catalysing collaboration and cooperation and disseminating knowledge within the UK e-Science community.

Achievement: See A.Kenway talkhttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.htmlExamples:

First 1 year visitor (J.Schopf) to work on NG TeraGrid cooperation Visitors from 4 different institutions bidding with us for future R&D project

KPIVolume of interaction with UK e-Scientists: to be considered & defined: e.g. # seminars/workshops and # attendees (at NeSC and other UK sites)Follow up to visit: # Return visits, collaborative work on software, standards, papers, % of visitors that continue to work with UK e-Science

Avtivity: Outreach and Website

Objective: To manage a high impact web site which provides a valuable and relevant source of information to the community.

Achievement: See A.Kenway talk

KPIWebsite access statistics

Activity: Training

Objective: To build on the NeSC tradition of quality training events that accelerate the development and effective uptake of e-research technologies

Achievement: See D.Fergusson talk Delivering training in UK and EuropeEstablishing training for NGSLeading and coordinating EGEE training activityEstablishing relationships with technology developers

KPI:# Training events in yearEvent: Feedback and # participants# Web-site downloads

Highlight: GGF Summer School

Activity: Research Programme

Objectives: To establish a number of research projects which deliver significant

advances in key areas of e-Science. They should include a broad range of application domains and will normally be collaborative.

To organise “Newton-Institute” style research events, produce research reports and identify research challenges.

Achievement: VOTES (MRC), BRIDGES+CFG (Centre+Wellcome), QTLGrid (BBSRC)ESLEA (EPSRC+PPARC+MRC)NextGRID (EU FP6)OGSA-DAI/DAIT (see N.C.Hong talk)DCC (EPSRC+JISC)Research visitors

KPI# and value of research projects (both centre and other)# papers & citations in high impact publications# research project website hits

Context Services Info

Services

InfraServices

SecurityServices

Rsrc Mgmt Services

Execution Mgmt

Services

DataServices

PolicyMgmt

VOMgmt

Access

Integration

Provisioning

Cataloging

BoundaryTraversal

Integrity

Authorization

Authentication

WSRF WSN WSDM

EventMgmt

Trouble-shooting

Discovery

JobMgmt

Logging

ExecutionPlanning

WorkflowMgmt

WorkloadMgmt

Provisioning

ApplicationMgmt

DeploymentConfigurationReservation

Naming

Self MgmtServices

HeterogeneityMgmt

Service LevelAttainment

QoSMgmt

Optimization

OGSA Design Teams

OGSA-WG

Information Service design teamData Service design team

EMS design team

Resource Mgmt design team

Security Service design team

Self Mgmt design team

Core (roadmap) design team

Naming design team

Activity: Computer Science Research e-Science applications

Objective: To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applications.

Achievement: eDIKTNextGRIDProjects: Publishing Scientific Data AMUSE FireGrid, QTLGrid, VOTES, EGEE

KPIRate of interaction between researchers Demonstrated solutions coming from CSCS engagement in challenges from applications

Activity: Regional Role

Objective: To foster e-Science in the region. Specifically the understanding of the potential of e-Science developments and as well as collaborative ventures to exploit e-Science initiatives.

Achievement: Support for project bidding (QTLGrid, FireGrid, VOTES, GeneExpress) Scottish Bioinformatics Research NetworkFostering “Fundamental computer Science” bid Scottish Executive/Scottish NHS initiatives

KPI# Scottish institutes engaged with NeSC# Regional attendees at events# Joint initiatives with regional institutes

Activity: National role

Objective: Contribute to leadership & coordination of UK e-Science

Achievement: Everything we do is part of this, particularly events and projects.AHMWeb based facilities (Directors’ meeting secure site, NeSCForge,WIKIs)gridNet, eSTORM(2),M.Atkinson : TAG , OMII SC & WS-I+, ATF (chair)N. Chue Hong OMII TABR. Sinnott, Security for ETFP. Clarke JISC JCSR & JCNNew JISC policy advisor post

KPI???

Activity: International impact and prestige of the UK.

Objectives: To promote the UK e-Science programme, particularly areas where

the UK is prominent.To identify and establish international collaboration.

Achievement: SC2003 and SC2004 e-Science BoothsGlobus allianceGEON & Simula Scientific advisory boards, Helmholtz reviewEU e-Infrastructures delegation to NAMajor workshops: e.g. Condor (this) weekInternational visits: e.g. SWITCH (last) weekGGF impact

KPIInput: #person days spent on international impact events/meetingsFeedback: Survey of perception of UK e-Science (needs third party)

Activity: Industry Partnership

Objective: To engage with UK industry in order to build/augment lasting channels of cooperation and through these to facilitate knowledge transfer and optimise UK competitiveness in areas related to e-Science.

Achievement: See M.Parsons talkAll centre projectsFounding institutes’ industrial pre-existing industrial programmes New projects with industry, e.g. ESLEAInter Enterprise Computing KTN bid.

KPI£-investment of industry partners / £-NeSC% partners willing to follow on in applicable projects% projects leading to follow on activities

Activity: Contribution to ETF

Objective: To contribute expertise to the ETF in order to develop the UK Grid infrastructure.

Achievement: Dave Berry responsible for GT4 evaluationRichard Sinnott + Glasgow staff (security)

KPI???

Activity: Standards

Objective: To play an active role in standards formation

Achievement: P. Clarke, M.Atkinson: GGF Steering committeeN. Chue Hong (Chair Grid File Access, DAIS) A. Krause M. Antonioletti (DAIS editors)A. Anjomshoaa (Chair JDSL)

KPI# Positions of leadership# Published documents with significant authorship

Matters arising from last review

OGSA-DAI/DAIT

eSI Overspend

Centre KPIs

Up-to-date Project achievements publicised

Confirmation of project formal end dates

Matters arising from last review

OGSA-DAI/DAIT Addressed by NCH talk (and discussion)

eSI Overspend

Up-to-date Project achievements publicised

Confirmation of project formal end dates

Who is Using OGSA-DAI?

OGSA-DAI(http://www.ogsadai.org.uk)

AstroGrid(http://www.astrogrid.org/)

BioSimGrid(http://www.biosimgrid.org/)

BioGrid(http://www.biogrid.jp/)

Bridges(http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/)

eDiaMoND (http://www.ediamond.ox.ac.uk/)

FirstDig(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~firstdig/)

GeneGrid(http://www.qub.ac.uk/escience/projects.php#genegrid)

GEON(http://www.geongrid.org/)

IU RGRBench(http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale/projects/RGR/OGSA-DAI.html)

myGrid(http://www.mygrid.org.uk/)

N2Grid(http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/institute/index.html?project-80=80)

ODD-Genes(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/oddgenes/) OGSA-WebDB

(http://www.gtrc.aist.go.jp/dbgrid/)

MCS(http://www.isi.edu/~deelman/MCS/)

INWA(http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/projects/inwa/)

GridMiner(http://www.gridminer.org/)

OGSA-DAIBiologicalSciences

PhysicalSciences

Commercial Applications

ComputerSciences

• FirstDig

• I NWA

• Bridges • AstroGrid

• BioSimGrid• BioGrid

• eDiamond• myGrid

• ODD- Genes

• N2Grid

• GEON

• MCS

• I U RGBench

• OGSA Web- DB

• GeneGrid

• GridMiner

OGSA-DAIBiologicalSciences

PhysicalSciences

Commercial Applications

ComputerSciences

• FirstDig

• I NWA

• Bridges • AstroGrid

• BioSimGrid• BioGrid

• eDiamond• myGrid

• ODD- Genes

• N2Grid

• GEON

• MCS

• I U RGBench

• OGSA Web- DB

• GeneGrid

• GridMiner

OGSA-DAI : Project classification

Matters arising from last review

OGSA-DAI/DAIT

eSI OverspendNow reduced to £1.5k. See A.Kenway

Centre KPIs

Up-to-date Project achievements publicised

Confirmation of project formal end dates

Matters arising from last review

OGSA-DAI take up

eSI Overspend

Centre KPIsSee objective review in previous slidesDo we have KPIs

Some very good ones Others – early iterations

Up-to-date Project achievements publicised

Confirmation of project formal end dates