1 / 28

NeSC Review Centre Report

NeSC Review Centre Report. Peter Clarke Deputy Director October 11 th 2004. Contents. Overview of activities Achievement against Objectives Issues raised in last report. Mission of the NeSC. Mission Statement:

marsha
Download Presentation

NeSC Review Centre Report

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. NeSC ReviewCentre Report Peter Clarke Deputy Director October 11th 2004

  2. Contents • Overview of activities • Achievement against Objectives • Issues raised in last report

  3. 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.

  4. Activities Map Foundations NeSC/eSI Value added JISC liaison GRID Summer School E-Health initiatives Outreach & website SBRN MSc Regional role Training Commerc-ialisation Advanced Computing Infrastructure Visitors programme Industry partnership IEC KTN EPCC Buildings AHM SC Events Computational Science Applications Int’natnl Prestige Informatics/CS Foundations Research & projects GU bioinformatics research institute eDIKT EDINA CS  Applications Standards Staff investment ETF Report Series DCC UK e-Science Development NGS role EGEE Other projects BIRN

  5. A.Trew, R.Sinnott InfrastructureNGS EGEE JISC liaison A.Kenway eSI events and outreach GRID Summer School E-Health initiatives Outreach & website SBRN MSc Regional role Training Commerc-ialisation Advanced Computing Infrastructure Visitors programme Industry partnership IEC KTN EPCC Buildings AHM SC Events Computational Science Applications Informatics/CS Foundations Int’natnl Prestige EDINA Research & projects GU bioinformatics research institute eDIKT M.Parsons Industry commercialisation CS  Applications Standards Staff investment Projects <several> ETF Report Series DCC UK e-Science Development NGS role P.Stansfield IEC opportunities EGEE D.Fergusson Training Other projects BIRN

  6. Achievement against Objectives

  7. Activity: Event Programme Objective: Deliver a series of events to develop e-Science understanding, skills and uptake. • Must balance over disciplines & between CS & applications • Must balance between knowledge propagation & knowledge creation • Must satisfying participants and stakeholders • Must be of nationally & internationally recognised value Achievement: • See A.Kenway presentation • Summary: • 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 KPI • Attendance days £-equivalent (~£4 million) • Frequency of return visits • Efficiency: Duty Cycle of the Institute premises (70%)

  8. Some events …

  9. 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 talk • http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.html • Examples: • 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 KPI • Volume 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

  10. 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 KPI • Website access statistics

  11. 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 Europe • Establishing training for NGS • Leading and coordinating EGEE training activity • Establishing relationships with technology developers KPI: • # Training events in year • Event: Feedback and # participants • # Web-site downloads

  12. Highlight: GGF Summer School

  13. 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

  14. Cataloging Provisioning VO Mgmt Integration Policy Mgmt Access Context Services Info Services Data Services Trouble- shooting Event Mgmt Discovery Logging Execution Mgmt Services Infra Services Application Mgmt Workflow Mgmt Workload Mgmt Execution Planning Job Mgmt WSRF WSN WSDM Naming Self Mgmt Services Rsrc Mgmt Services Reservation Configuration Deployment Provisioning Security Services Heterogeneity Mgmt Authentication Optimization Authorization Service Level Attainment Integrity QoS Mgmt Boundary Traversal OGSA Design Teams Data Service design team Information Service design team EMS design team Naming design team OGSA-WG Self Mgmt design team Resource Mgmt design team Security Service design team Core (roadmap) design team

  15. 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: • eDIKT • NextGRID • Projects: • Publishing Scientific Data • AMUSE • FireGrid, QTLGrid, VOTES, EGEE KPI • Rate of interaction between researchers • Demonstrated solutions coming from CS • CS engagement in challenges from applications

  16. 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 Network • Fostering “Fundamental computer Science” bid • Scottish Executive/Scottish NHS initiatives KPI • # Scottish institutes engaged with NeSC • # Regional attendees at events • # Joint initiatives with regional institutes

  17. Activity: National role Objective: Contribute to leadership & coordination of UK e-Science Achievement: • Everything we do is part of this, particularly events and projects. • AHM • Web based facilities (Directors’ meeting secure site, NeSCForge,WIKIs) • gridNet, eSTORM(2), • M.Atkinson : TAG , OMII SC & WS-I+, ATF (chair) • N. Chue Hong OMII TAB • R. Sinnott, Security for ETF • P. Clarke JISC JCSR & JCN • New JISC policy advisor post KPI • ???

  18. 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 Booths • Globus alliance • GEON & Simula Scientific advisory boards, Helmholtz review • EU e-Infrastructures delegation to NA • Major workshops: e.g. Condor (this) week • International visits: e.g. SWITCH (last) week • GGF impact KPI • Input: #person days spent on international impact events/meetings • Feedback: Survey of perception of UK e-Science (needs third party)

  19. 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 talk • All centre projects • Founding institutes’ industrial pre-existing industrial programmes • New projects with industry, e.g. ESLEA • Inter Enterprise Computing KTN bid. KPI • £-investment of industry partners / £-NeSC • % partners willing to follow on in applicable projects • % projects leading to follow on activities

  20. 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 evaluation • Richard Sinnott + Glasgow staff (security) KPI • ???

  21. Activity: Standards Objective: To play an active role in standards formation Achievement: • P. Clarke, M.Atkinson: GGF Steering committee • N. 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

  22. Matters arising from last review OGSA-DAI/DAIT eSI Overspend Centre KPIs Up-to-date Project achievements publicised Confirmation of project formal end dates

  23. 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

  24. Who is Using OGSA-DAI? N2Grid (http://www.cs.univie.ac.at/institute/index.html?project-80=80) Bridges (http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/projects/bridges/) BioSimGrid (http://www.biosimgrid.org/) INWA (http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/projects/inwa/) BioGrid (http://www.biogrid.jp/) AstroGrid (http://www.astrogrid.org/) eDiaMoND (http://www.ediamond.ox.ac.uk/) OGSA-DAI (http://www.ogsadai.org.uk) GEON (http://www.geongrid.org/) myGrid (http://www.mygrid.org.uk/) MCS (http://www.isi.edu/~deelman/MCS/) ODD-Genes (http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/oddgenes/) OGSA-WebDB (http://www.gtrc.aist.go.jp/dbgrid/) GridMiner (http://www.gridminer.org/) FirstDig (http://www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/~firstdig/) GeneGrid (http://www.qub.ac.uk/escience/projects.php#genegrid) IU RGRBench (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/~plale/projects/RGR/OGSA-DAI.html)

  25. OGSA-DAI : Project classification

  26. Matters arising from last review OGSA-DAI/DAIT eSI Overspend • Now reduced to £1.5k. See A.Kenway Centre KPIs Up-to-date Project achievements publicised Confirmation of project formal end dates

  27. Matters arising from last review OGSA-DAI take up eSI Overspend Centre KPIs • See objective review in previous slides • Do we have KPIs • Some very good ones • Others – early iterations Up-to-date Project achievements publicised Confirmation of project formal end dates

More Related