SWITCH Study Visit

Dr Anna KenwayCentre Manager

www.nesc.ac.uk

5 October 2004

NeSC Core Funding (£ 9M)

£2.5M for eSI for 5 years£1.3M for Core activity for 5 years£3M for Grid Core Projects (needed matching industrial funding to ‘pull down’)£1.6M for support of the UK community (GridNet, eSTORM)£400k for Training (matching EGEE)£200k for JISC Interface(Additional funding for specific projects.)GBP/EUR 1.45

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-ScienceHelp establish the UK’s international roleRun the e-Science InstituteUndertake R&D projectsTraining Team

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-Science

Outreach – community building & websiteEarly adopters

Help establish the UK’s international roleRun the e-Science InstituteUndertake R&D projectsTraining Team

Community Building

The Opening was an opportunity to bring Grids to the notice of the politicians (decision makers), the media and the research communityWe have run the biggest GGF5 to date (2001, 900 delegates)The Core programme holds an annual ‘All Hands’ meeting, which is heavily supported by NeSC

Community Building

Staff are involved in UK working groups:Directors’ Forum

Helped build a communityEngineering Task Force

Built the UK GridArchitecture Task Force

UK Adoption of OGSAOGSA Grid MarketFuture approaches

Security Task ForceDatabase Task Force (now disbanded)

OGSA-DAI (www.ogsadai.org.uk)GGF DAIS-WG

Usability Task Force

Websites

We run three:http://www.nesc.ac.ukhttp://www.allhands.org.ukhttp://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/

The Website(s) – a Resource

National e-Science Centre www.nesc.ac.uk/

Mission, Background, Foundation, Locations, Staff, Resources, ProjectsRegister interest, Mailing lists, NeSCForgeRegional associations and CollaborationsNews, NoticesPresentations and Lectures

National e-Science Institute www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/Mission, Events (Future and Past)Register for Events, Visitor Programme, GridNet

UK e-ScienceMap and Index of Centres www.nesc.ac.uk/centres/Technical Papers www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/Index of >100 Projects www.nesc.ac.uk/projects/Task Forces www.nesc.ac.uk/teams/

General InformationGlossary, Bibliography, Who’s who

NeSC Web site Statistics

Since going ‘live’ in 2001 to 8 Sep 2004> 4.5 million successful requests (‘hits’) transferring 273 gigabytes of data (4.8 GB in last week)

In last week:Average hits per day 8593Distinct files served 4642… to 3572 distinct hostsAverage data transferred per day (702 MB) (typical file size about 100 kB)

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Access GridACF – Advanced Computing Facility

A number of high performance machinesScotGrid, QCDOC, Lomond, Blue Dwarf & a SAN supported by EPCC and EUCS‘Gridified’Middleware supported by NeSCTo be made available to the National Grid Service

Community Building - Access Grid – helping to develop VO’sRequires IP

multicast throughout the network

Crucial for multi-site project meetings

MicrophonesCameras

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-ScienceHelp establish the UK’s international role

The focus for presenting UK e-Science

Run the e-Science InstituteUndertake R&D projectsTraining Team

Presenting UK e-Science

Involvement in GGFLeading the OGSA-WG data design team, co-chairs of the JSDL-WG, secretary of the DAIS-WG, membership of the GFSG

Involved in SupercomputingInvolved in Globus AllianceInternational Meetings (like this)Partners in EGEE

NA4 (Outreach)NA3 (Training & Induction – Lead by Malcolm Atkinson)JRA4 (Development of Network Services) – Lead by Peter Clarke

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-ScienceHelp establish the UK’s international roleRun the e-Science Institute

A meeting placeWorkshops, conferences and eventsSupport for research collaborationsResearch visitors

Undertake R&D projectsTraining Team

A Meeting Place

Pleasantly placed in the centre of a beautiful city

People want to come here…

A user friendly environment Public networks, WirelessLAN, Access Grid (but also VRVS, Net Meeting …), Internet Café, hands-on Training Room

Space for real workCrossing communitiesCreativity: new strategies and solutionsWritten reports

Workshops & Conferences

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

Events held in the first 3 Years(from 1 Aug 2001 to 31 Jul 2004)

We have run just under 7 per month: 22 project meetings 26 research meetings 76 workshops 4 schools41 training sessions41 outreach events12 international meetings5 conferences 21 e-Science management meetings

19,456 delegate days248 events8,329 delegates 421 event days

‘A picture is worth a 1000 words …’

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Support for Research Projects

e.g. AstroGrid, GridPP, ILDG, Reality Grid, Mouse AtlasBy running workshops involving local and virtual attendeesFunding working meetings through the visitor programme‘Hands on’ training sessionsRunning Summer Schools (training/community) for e-Science postgraduate studentsRunning web Forums, NeSCForge, mailing listsDeveloping an MSc in e-Science

eSI Research Visitors

Collaborate with UK research and developmentEngage in and develop eSI event programmeBuild bridges with their communityVisit for anywhere between one week and six monthsLink up with regional e-Science centreshttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.html

Becoming a Research Visitor

Establish a collaboration with NeSCPre-established mutual interests

We encourage diversity of disciplinesComplementary experience, knowledge and skillsWe can help match interests and develop a plan

Visitors already engaged in relevant R&DThis is not a training opportunity

Our support depends on the length and value of visit

Typically covers travel and/or local living costsApplication via our web site

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-ScienceHelp establish the UK’s international roleRun the e-Science InstituteUndertake R&D projects

Reliable middleware (OGSA-DAI, SunDCG, …)Engage industry (IBM, Sun, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, …)Stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology

Training Team

R&D Projects

(Non-exhaustive list…)OGSA-DAIHPFABMANSunGRIDPGPGridMS.NetGridBRIDGESFIRSTDIG

But we also generate a large number of reports …

Technical Reports

The Virtual Observatory as a Data Grid, Bob Mann, Sep 03UK Experience with OGSA, Dave Berry, Sep 03e-Science Gap Analysis, Geoffrey Fox, David Walker, Jun 03Scientific Data Mining, Integration and Visualisation, Bob Mann, Roy Williams, Malcolm Atkinson, Ken Brodlie, Amos Storkey, Chris Williams, Nov 02A Rough Guide to Grid Security, Mike Surridge, Sep 02Multi-Site Videoconferencing for the UK e-Science Programme, Stephen Booth, John Brooke, Kate Caldwell, Liz Carver, Michael Daw, David De Roure, Alan Flavell, Philippe Galvez, Brian Gilmore, Henry Hughes, Ben Juby, Ivan Judson, Jim Miller, Harvey Newman, Chris Osland, Sue Rogers, Oct 02Database Access and Integration Services on the Grid, Norman W Paton, Malcolm P Atkinson, Vijay Dialani, Dave Pearson, Tony Storey, Paul Watson, Feb 02Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science Infrastructure, David De Roure, Nicholas Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt, Dec 01Databases and the Grid, Paul Watson, Dec 01

Technical ReportsA Grid Application Framework based on Web Services Specifications and Practices, Savas Parastatidis, Jim Webber, Paul Watson, Thomas Rischbeck, Aug 03Grid Information Systems 2003 (Draft), Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Xiao Dong Wang, Andy Richards, Mark McKeown, John Colgrave, Matthew Dovey, Mark Baker, Steve Fisher, Dec 03Towards tractable toolkits for the Grid: a plea for lightweight, usable middleware, Jonathan Chin, Peter Coveney, Feb 04Portals and Portlets 2003, Rob Allan, Chris Awre, Mark Baker, Adrian Fish, Mar 04IMAGE 03: Images, Medical Analysis and Grid Environments, Dave Berry, Derek Hill, Steve Pieper, Joel Saltz, Cécile Germain-Renaud, Mar 04Open Issues in Grid Scheduling, Alain Andrieux, Dave Berry, Jon Garibaldi, Stephen Jarvis, Djamila Ouelhadj, Mar 04Data Provenance and Annotation, Peter Buneman, Michael Wilde.e-Science Workflow Services, Matthew Addis, Dave Berry, Earl Ecklund, Carole Goble

http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html

NeSC Roles

Help coordinate and lead UK e-ScienceHelp establish the UK’s international roleRun the e-Science InstituteUndertake R&D projectsTraining Team

Funded both by EGEE and the UK programme

NeSC Training Team

Training is done both at Edinburgh and elsewhere

dedicated training team5 trainers (2 funded by EGEE and 3 by JISC)support stafffacilitiesmore posts in the pipeline

NeSC lead training forEGEENextGridUK e-Science

NeSC & EGEE offer to extend their scope and activitiesCollaborating with all EU e-Science & e-Infrastructure projectsFor all Training & Education Delivering for EU Citizens, Industry & Academia

EGEE 22 Training PartnersNeSC

EdinburghUK & Ireland

GUPLinz

Austria

InnsbruckAustria

CESNETPrague

Czech Rep.

BUTEBudapestHungary

ELUBBudapestHungary

MTA SZTAKIBudapestHungary

ICMWarsawPoland

PSNCPoznanPoland

II-SASBratislavaSlovakia

FZKKarlsruheGermany

INFNRomeItaly

KU-NATFAK Copenhagen

Denmark

IHEPMoscowRussia

IMPB RASMoscowRussia

ITEPMoscowRussia

JINRDubnaRussia

PNPIPetersburgh

Russia

RRCKIMoscowRussia

GRNETAthensGreece

TAUTel Aviv

Isreal

ICIBucharestRomania

EGEE training delivery

Since April 2004 EGEE NA3 has trained 350 people in 14 coursesranging from introductions to EGEE (induction) through applicationDeveloper to advanced level.

NA3 is committed to maintainingand developing the quality of training.To do this feedback is collected fromthe users of courses.

Training Events throughout Europeand beyond!

Any questions?