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Enhancing the UK Research Computing Ecosystem: Insights from the NGS Collaboration Board

This document outlines the NGS response to the strategic plan for the UK research computing ecosystem, summarizing key insights from various collaboration board meetings. It emphasizes the importance of data as a first-class citizen in research, the necessity of open access data within collaborative projects, and the need for a coordinated e-infrastructure that supports diverse resources. It highlights challenges, including social dynamics over technical solutions, and advocates for a more integrated approach that builds upon past successes and failures to advance academic research in the UK.

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Enhancing the UK Research Computing Ecosystem: Insights from the NGS Collaboration Board

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  1. NGS Response to ‘AStrategic Plan for the UK Research Computing Ecosystem’ Cloudscape III - EGI Use Case

  2. Input Sources • Collaboration Board • Member institutions represented by higher management (e.g. PVC-Research) nominated member of staff to give authoritative institutional view • Representatives of National and International(ESFRI) projects

  3. Collaboration Board Meeting 6th July • Birmingham • Bristol • Brunel • Cardiff • Leeds • Liverpool Manchester Oxford Southampton STFC Royal Holloway York

  4. Institutional Feedback • Data must be a first class citizen • Data management policy requirements; • How can data be made Open Access within collaborative research projects but still curated as per RC requirements? • Requirement for scaling from institutional (from Desktops via HPC clusters) to national and international resources • Multi faceted entry mechanisms to e-infrastructure are a necessity • Shared services using licensed software must be handed in more common ways • Must have common mechanisms for accounting and reporting to institutions about services used on external e-Infrastructure, including commercial providers

  5. Projects Meeting (24th June) • ELIXIR – Andrew Lyall (EBI) • LifeWatch– Alex Hardisty (Cardiff) • EURO-ARGO – Justin Buck (BODC) • sLHC/WLCG – John Gordon (STFC) • CLARIN/DARIAH – Martin Wynne (OeRC) • DIRAC – Jeremy Yates (UCL) • Digital Social Research – Megan Meredith-Lobay (OeRC) 

  6. Projects Input for the 8th July • e-infrastructure is a wide and diverse area, it cannot be pigeon holed into any single type of resource to the detriment of others, all types must be available in a co-ordinated manner. • Many problems communities face are not technical but social, we must not try to impose technical solutions that don’t fit • Projects are increasingly looking to services rather than physical resources, but wish to see new types of resource available in a co-ordinated manner alongside more traditional systems • Some projects already have resources they wish to aggregate and are/have been working with the NGS currently, e.g. DiRAC, NeISS, NSCCS, SKA, CCP4. • Some projects have extremely strong RC participation and this will shape other researchers from their domain

  7. Future • The NGS including current and future stakeholders fully supports the vision of a more integrated e-Infrastructure to support academic research in the UK • We must build on experience taking note of successes and failures to ensure that we move forward as a community

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