Client+CloudThe Future of Research

Dr. Daniel A. ReedCorporate Vice President

Extreme Computing Group &Technology Strategy and Policy

Discovery and Innovation in 2020

In the last two decades advances in computing technology, from processing speed to network capacity and the Internet, have revolutionized the way scientists work.

From sequencing genomes to monitoring the Earth's climate, many recent scientific advances would not have been possible without a parallel increase in computing power –

and with revolutionary technologies such as the quantum computer edging towards reality, what will the relationship between computing and science bring us over the next 15 years?

http://research.microsoft.com/towards2020science

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PetabytesDoubling & Doubling

The Data Explosion

Experiments ArchivesSimulations Literature Consumer

Deliver the capability to mine, search and analyze this data in near real time

Science itself is evolving

The ChallengeEnable Discovery

The Response

Computational

Last few decades

The Changing Nature Of Research

The Fourth ParadigmExperimental

Thousand years ago

Today and the Future

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Last few hundred years

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Simulation of complex phenomena

Newton’s laws, Maxwell’s

equations…

Description of natural phenomena

Unify theory, experiment and

simulation with large multidisciplinary data

Using data exploration and data

mining (from instruments, sensors, humans…)

Distributed communities

Insatiable infrastructure demand Cycles, storage, support

Distributed acquisition/deployment Duplicative, non-shared infrastructure

Distributed cost structures Power, space, staff, hardware

Long-term sustainabilityDecades rather than months/years

Research Empowerment Challenges

We must optimize for human creativity•Research questions•Time-to-solution•Multidisciplinary Grouping

Interoperability Opportunities

Today’s RealityResearchers are using multiple cloud and HPC providers

Europe has invested in a large and highly evolved computational Grid

Clouds add a new dimension to research infrastructure

The Cloud can become a seamless extension of the Grid

Let Scientists Be Scientists…

Most scientists do not want to be system administrators

They don’t want to learn to use supercomputers

They want to focus on their science

They use standard tools: spreadsheets, statistical packages, desktop visualizationProgramming = modifying a few parameters in a trusted scripting language

Let Scientists Be Scientists…

BUT …

The data deluge means they must solve problems 10000 times the capacity of their desktop

Science is now interdisciplinarySharing access to large data collections and analysis tools is the future

A paradigm shift is coming

The Cloud: Democratizing Research

Today Tomorrow

Use laptops and desktop computers

Overwhelmed by data

Doing analysis difficult; sharing even harder

Supercomputing Users

Those with small clusters or servers

Majority of Researchers

A Unified Research Community

Powerful Tools

Data and analysis tools in the cloud

Cycles, storage, support

Building communities around research results

The ability to marshal needed resources on demand

Without caring or knowing how it gets done…

Accelerating Discovery

Majority of Researchers Paradigm Shift

Imagine: the client plus the cloud for extreme data analysis

Give the standard science desktop tools a seamless extension to the cloud.Use a spreadsheet to invoke genomic analysis tools running on 600 servers

Use a simple script to orchestrate data analytics and mining across 10000 MRI Images

Pull data from remote instruments to the cloud for visualization on the desktop

Create a revolution in scientificcapability for everybody.

Simple Tools To Answer Complex Questions…

Microsoft’s Global Cloud Research Engagement Initiative

Mission

• Broaden research capabilities, foster collaborative research communities and accelerate scientific discovery globally

• Provide massively scalable tools and services directly to users (from their desktops) which could transform how research is conducted, accelerating scientific exploration, discovery and results.

Approach

• Build partnerships with government-sponsored research agencies and university consortia

• Offer cloud services to academic and research communities worldwide supported with a technical engagement team.

• Provide code samples and templates for significant cloud application

• Provide tools to access the cloud and important cloud services from the desktop and laptop

Venus-C & Microsoft Demonstrating Interoperability

In November, VENUS-C will issue an open call to the European research community to use VENUS-C on Windows Azure.

VENUS-C (Virtual multidisciplinary EnviroNments USing Cloud infrastructures) is funded by the European Commission as part of the framework programme seven to demonstrate Cloud interoperability

Programme partnersEngineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA , Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Collaboratorio, Microsoft Innovation Center Greece, Microsoft Research, National Research Council of Italy , Royal Institute of Technology, Technion, The European Chapter of the Open Grid Forum, The European Microsoft Innovation Center, Universidad Politechnica de Valencia, University of Newcastle, University of the Aegean

Interoperability will be demonstrated around several key application areasBiomedicine (Bioinformatics, System Biology and Drug Discovery), Civil Engineering, Data for Science, Civil Protection and Emergencies

Microsoft will work with the VENUS-C partners to implement a bridge between Windows Azure and Open Source Cloud Solutions including OCCI, OpenNebula and the proposed data standard CDMI.

Additional Engagements in France and the UK

University of Nottingham

France’s Premier Research Lab and Microsoft have partnered to create a joint research center.

Today we announce a new INRIA-MS are of collaboration on the topic of Cloud Computing.

This project will demonstrate computational neuroscience using Client+Cloud Computing.

INRIA

Horizon is the EPSRC-funded “digital economy hub” at the University of Nottingham.

Horizon’s Goals; driving adoption of ubiquitous computing and advancing the digital economy.

Microsoft is providing a substantial Azure resource to the University of Nottingham and their collaborating universities.

Q&A

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