The Oxford e-Research Centre,

interdisciplinary research from the

institutional to the international

Cambridge

Newcastle

Edinburgh

Oxford

Glasgow

Manchester

Cardiff

Southampton

London

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RAL Hinxton

UK e-Science CentresOxford e-Science Centre

• Distributed virtual research centre

• Domain, Computer Science and IT services

Oxford Interdisciplinary e-Research Centre

• Physical research centre with Vice Chancellor support

for start-up

• Sited outside university structure to be truly

interdisciplinary

Oxford e-Research Centre

• Physical research centre with new building

• Part of the regular university

• Research only – no student admissions i.e. teaching

Image courtesy Tony Hey

Innovative digital methods transforming research

A collaborative research hub for

Digital Oxford

A full department in a leading science division

Research Problem

Application modelled

Create or adapt

technology

Disseminate and reuse

Our Mission

To create a sustainable research platform across

participating organisations and their collaborators

by applying innovative computing technology to

interdisciplinary problems of increasing scale and

complexity

The consortium works individually and collectively in

attracting new support for e‐Research activities.

Driven by specific application areas and building on

existing e-Infrastructure technologies e-Research South

works to:

• enhance the ease of use, uptake and ‘accessibility’ of

e-Research

• develop know-how & tools for dealing with research

data

• provide development of and access to advanced

visualisation

• create a regional community

• provide opportunities for public engagement with

science

UK e- Infrastructure

LHC

ISIS TS2

HECtoR

Users get common access, tools, information,

nationally supported services, through NGS

Integratedinternationally

VRE, VLE, IE

Regional and Campus grids

Community Grids

HEIs

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EGI Cloud Infrastructure

EGI Core Platform

Federated AAI

ServiceRegistry

Monitoring Accounting

EGI Cloud Infrastructure Platform

Instance Mgmt

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Information Discovery

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OCCI

Storage Management

CDMI

Cloud Management Stacks(OpenStack, OpenNebula, Synnefo, …)

SAM UR

Help and Support

Security Co-ordination

Training and

Outreach

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Providers Cloud Management Framework(new one we don’t now about and don’t want to care about)

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Sustainable Business Models

PLAN-E

• All here are successful centres

• Different models and strengths

• Need to match expectation of collaboration between members with reality

• Diversification is key to achieve sustainability– Different models available including subscription, direct grant etc.

• Recognise that collaboration can happen at multiple different levels to be of benefit– E-infrastructure

– Technology

– End user communities

• Training – look to how to ‘upskill’ through CPD & not create ‘Research tool professors’ – share materials & people