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Southampton Regional e-Science Centre Opening. Andy Keane Director, Southampton Regional e-Science Centre [email protected]. Welcome. Today’s Agenda. Welcome by Andy Keane Formal Opening by Prof Bill Wakeham (VC) Lunch (12:30-13:30) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Andy Keane
Director, Southampton Regional e-Science Centre
Welcome
Southampton Regional e-Science
Centre Opening
Today’s Agenda
• Welcome by Andy Keane
• Formal Opening by Prof Bill Wakeham (VC)
• Lunch (12:30-13:30)
• Tours and Access Grid demonstration for those staying after lunch
• Close (14:30)
The Vision
‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’
‘e-Science will change the dynamic of the way science is undertaken.’
John Taylor
Director General of Research Councils
Office of Science and Technology
Instruments
People
Appliances
e-Science & the Grid
Data Bases
PDAs
e-Science is the large scale science carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet.
It is characterised by very large data collections and computing resources being used by collaborating but geographically separated engineers or scientists.
The e-Science computing infrastructure is known as the Grid. The vision of e-Science involves substantial computer science research challenges in grid computing.
UK e-Science Initiative
• £120M Programme over 3 years
• £75M is for Grid Applications in all areas of science and engineering
• £10M for Supercomputer upgrade
• £35M ‘Core Program’ to encourage development of generic ‘industrial strength’ Grid middleware
Cambridge
Newcastle
Edinburgh
Oxford
Glasgow
Manchester
Cardiff
Southampton
London
Belfast
DL
RAL Hinxton
UK e-Science Grid
The Southampton Regional Centre
• Supporting projects and encouraging industrial applications
• Increasing awareness of the techniques of e-Science• Helping people to kick off e-Science projects and
activities• Helping co-ordinate activity across the University,
region, national & international communities• GRID deployment• Managing an Access Grid node• Newly refurbished building
Centre Structure
• Management team is Andy Keane, Simon Cox, Dave De Roure, Mike Chrystall (Engineering) and Pete Hancock (SUCS).
• Regional remit from Bath to Brighton.• Strongly supported from IBM Hursley,
Microsoft & Intel.• First outreach event held Friday 8 Feb 2002.• See http://www.e-science.soton.ac.uk
Access Grid Nodes
Technology Developed in USA at Argonne National Laboratory
Access Grid will enable informal and formal group to group collaboration
•Distributed lectures and seminars
•Virtual meetings
•Complex distributed grid demos
e-Science Centre Projects
• Each centre has £0.5M block grant and further £1M to fund industry facing middleware projects
• Projects require 50% matching resources from industry
• Projects aim to exploit Grid technology to allow e-Science based working
Current Projects
• Civil Engineering Site Monitoring
• Ship Motion Simulation• Yacht Design• Marine Structural Analysis• Photonic Device Design
Centre also houses Geodise Pilot (EPSRC), Genie (NERC) & Grid BioSim (BBSRC)
Geodise EPSRC Pilot
• “Grid-enabled Optimisation and Design Search for Engineering”
• £2.8M project is led by Simon Cox with Andy Keane (SoES), Nigel Shadbolt (ECS)
• Partners at the Universities of Manchester and Oxford
• 11 research posts at Southampton
• Collaborating companies are Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, Fluent, Intel, Microsoft, Compusys, and Epistemics.
Geodise will provide grid-based seamless access to an intelligent knowledge repository, a state-of-the-art collection of optimisation and search tools, industrial strength analysis
codes, and distributed computing & data resources
APPLICATION SERVICE
PROVIDER
COMPUTATION
GEODISE
PORTAL
OPTIMISATION
Engineer
Parallel machinesClusters
Internet Resource ProvidersPay-per-use
Optimisation archive
Intelligent Application Manager
Intelligent Resource Provider
Licenses and code
Session database
Design archive
OPTIONSSystem
Knowledge repository
Traceability
Visualization
Globus, Condor, OGSA
Ontology for Engineering,
Computation, &Optimisation and Design Search
CAD SystemCADDSIDEASProE
CATIA, ICAD
AnalysisCFDFEMCEM
ReliabilitySecurity
QoS
http://www.geodise.org
External activities• Southampton represented on national e-Science
committees:– e-Science Technical Advisory Group (Shadbolt)– Architecture Task Force (De Roure)– Security Task Force (Surridge)– Grid Engineering Task Force (Cox, Baker)– Grid Network Team (Chown)– JISC Research Committee (De Roure)– …
• N+N meeting, semantic grid (De Roure, Webb)• Reports commissioned from De Roure et al and Cox• Intel Virtual Centre for Grid Computing with Imperial
College (Cox)
Comb-e-Chem EPSRC Pilot• “Structure-Property Mapping: Combinatorial
Chemistry and the Grid”
• £2.3M project led by Jeremy Frey in Chemistry (with Mike Hursthouse and Jonathan Essex), Dave De Roure (ECS) Mike Surridge (IT Innovation) and Sue Lewis (Maths)
• 11 Southampton posts, Bristol is partner
• Collaborating companies are Roche Discovery Welwyn, Pfizer, IBM UK Ltd, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Southampton Combinatorial Centre of Excellence.
• Includes Exploring Chemical Structures using e-Science demonstrator
X-Ray e-Laboratory
MyGrid EPSRC Pilot• “MyGrid: Personalised extensible
environments for data-intensive in silico experiments in biology”
• £3.3M project led by University of Manchester
• Other partners are Southampton, Newcastle, Nottingham, Sheffield and the European Bioinformatics Institute.
Southampton team led by Luc Moreau (ECS) and Matthew Addis (IT Innovation)
Collaborating companies are IBM UK Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline, SUN Microsystems Ltd, AstraZeneca UK Ltd, Merck KGaA, Epistemics Ltd, Network Inference and GeneticXchange.
IRC e-Science Projects
• AKT – CoAKTing: Collaborative Advanced Knowledge Technologies in the Grid.
• Equator/MIAS – Grid-based Medical Devices for Everyday Health.
• AKT/MIAS – Grid Enabled Knowledge Services: Collaborative Problem Solving Environments in Medical Informatics.
Grid Enabled Knowledge Services – Collaborative Problems Solving Environments in Medical Informatics
• Southampton, OU, Sheffield, Oxford, Kings• Grid will be used to fuse images, align them over visits etc• MIAKT will develop ontologies to annotate and label features,
map between viewpoints • Generate natural language reports from labelled features,
patient history to support collaborative problem solving
Grade Clinical Imaging Cytological
1 Normal Normal or benign
Inadequate
2 Benign Probably benign
Benign
3 Uncertain Indeterminate Suspicious probably benign
4 Malignant? Malignant? Suspicious probably malignant
5 Malignant Malignant Malignant
MRC project
• Integration of maps to support disease gene mapping and studies of of biological properties of chromosome location
• £216k project
• Andy Collins, Human Genetics
NERC project• GRID for Environmental Systems Diagnostics
and Visualization
Reading (Coordinator)
Prof. K. Haines Assimilation, Modelling
Southampton Prof. J. Marotzke
Thermohaline Modelling
Imperial Prof. A. Goddard
Engineering Fluid Models
Manchester Dr J. Brooke HPC, RealityGrid
Rutherford Dr D. Boyd Commodity Visualization
European projectsGRIA “Grid Resources for Industrial Applications”
2.8M euro project led by IT Innovation
Collaborators are ENEL (an Italian energy utility) and Kino (a Greek TV and movie production company), the National Technical University of Athens and Dolphin from Norway.
GRIDStart “Grid Dissemination, Standards, Applications, Roadmap and Training”
IT Innovation. Exploit synergies between European Grid projects, contribute to international standards and stimulate early take-up of Grid enabled applications.
European projects (cont.)
DISTAL-TU0.8M euro project, IT Innovation will develop and prove business models for users, service providers and technology providers. Atos Origin Engineering Services in the Netherlands will use the technology to provide services for the European Space Research and Technology Centre
GRIP1.9M euro project, aims to demonstrate that the different perspectives of two distinct grids can successfully complement each, focusing on weather prediction and biomolecular applications as inter-grid applications. Southampton’s participation is led by Denis Nicole (ECS) with Simon Cox.
European projects (cont.)
GEMSS “Grid-Enabled Medical Simulation Service”
3.3M Euro project, IT Innovation will develop a system with security compliant to complicated and demanding legislation, and quality-of-service appropriate to various time-critical processes. It will demonstrate how Grid technologies can be used to transform healthcare and enable Europe to lead that
transformation.