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Holding slide prior to starting show. The Internet is about to byte back! Raising Awareness for e-Science & Grid Computing in Industry & Commerce John Oliver Commercial Coordinator Welsh e-Science Centre. Synopsis. What is e-Science? What is the Grid & what benefits does it bring?

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  1. Holding slide prior to starting show

  2. The Internet is about to byte back!Raising Awareness for e-Science & Grid Computing in Industry & CommerceJohn OliverCommercial CoordinatorWelsh e-Science Centre

  3. Synopsis • What is e-Science? • What is the Grid & what benefits does it bring? • UK e-Science Programme • Role of the Welsh e-Science Centre • Concluding remarks

  4. What is e-Science? • e-Science • “science increasingly done through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet, using very large data collections, tera-scale computing resources and high performance visualization.”

  5. Collaborative Science LARGE HADRON COLLIDER – CERN • Physicists collaborating in an international experiment ,need to share: • Data & storage resources • IT resources for: - Information extraction & analysis • - Large scale simulation Typical DataRaw = 1 petabyte/secFiltered = 100Mbyte/sec = 1 meg CD ROMS per year

  6. Engineering Design A new aircraft may involve 10,000 engineers from many organisations collaborating, sharing: • Digital blueprints & specs • Supercomputer simulations • Software and data for multidisciplinary simulations

  7. SARS GRID – Taiwan May 2003 Medical staff quarantined Short time frame PRAGMA virtual team set up Grid, China, Korea, USA, Australia Access Grid teleconferencing Medical staff sharing expertise, X-rays,patient records,diagnosis data Crisis Management

  8. Biological Databases- larger, more complex & diverse - allows linkage & optimal data exploitation Micro Array experiments - e.g. filtering 30 or 40 results out of 1 million Simulation of large molecules - Protein folding affects how drugs dock with receptors “Post-Genomic” Bioinformatics WALES GENE PARKWALES BIOSTATISTICS & BIOINFORMATICS UNITUniversity of Wales,Departments of: PATHOLOGY PHARMACOLOGY CHEMISTRY

  9. Elements in Common • COORDINATED PROBLEM SOLVING • Beyond client-server: distributed data analysis, computation, collaboration, • Problem Solving Environments • RESOURCE SHARING • Computers, data, instruments, networks • “VIRTUAL ORGANISATIONS” • Multi Institutional • Overlying traditional organisational structures • Large or small, static or dynamic

  10. The Computing Foundationsfor e-Science

  11. What is the Grid? • Lots & lots of resources • Secure remote access across adminstrative domains • Scalable discovery and seamless composition of diverse resources

  12. The Grid Vision Imagine a world in which computing power is as readily available as electrical power ….. • Where this power is made available as "services" to users with differing levels of expertise • Where "services" interact to perform specified tasks with a minimum of human intervention

  13. Benefits from the Grid • Access to more computing and data resources • Lower cost of computing • Increased flexibility • to tackle large-scale problems • Empowers individuals and organisations • towards better collaboration within and between organisations

  14. Some “Healthy” Benefits • Bioinformatics • Collaborative surgical planning • Radiotherapy treatment planning • High content imaging in Biosciences • Electronic patient records • Distributed remote diagnosis

  15. 15% ofcorporatesusing GSPs PriceWaterhouseCoopers Grid serviceproviders (GSP) IBM Gartner Foster & Kesselman critical internal useby largecorporates criticallyimportant “significantmomentum” Importanceto business technologymaturity science sectors science & non-science sectors harnessing computer cycles low/zero computing as a utility pervasive computing 2012 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 “Great GlobalGrid” “mature”, real deployments full revolution begins Take-up of Grid Technologies i) production gridsfor research ii) vendors claim“100’s of corporategrid customers” TODAY

  16. UK e-Science Programme • Spending Reviews • 2000 : £98m for 3 years (+ £20m from DTI) • 2002 : Further £115m for years 4 & 5 • Development of key IT infrastructure to support e-Science • Managed by Research Councils & DTI • Application specific Pilot Projects • Core programme to identify, develop and deploy generic Grid middleware

  17. UK e-Science Network • National Centre in Edinburgh/Glasgow • 8 regional centres • Grid support centre Edinburgh Glasgow Newcastle Belfast Manchester DL Cambridge Oxford Hinxton (EBI) RAL Cardiff London Southampton

  18. Welsh e-Science Centre • School of Computing • Funding: - DTI, WDA & CU • Role: - Promote e-Science research and development in Wales and South- west of England- Accelerate the adoption of e- Science & Grid capabilities

  19. Our Role in Practice • Infrastructure Provision • Development of technology • Outreach to encourage: • e-Science technologies use by researchers • Collaborative research projects • Technology transfer to industry

  20. Resources • “Monster Computing Power” • Locally: SUN, SGI, storage, visualisation • Resources of the “national grid” ! • Access via Broadband • Grid expertise for training and support • Full-time staff (4) • Related Researchers (~20)

  21. Welsh e-Science Projects 25+ in progress grouped into • Applications • Industrial Partnerships • Middlewares • Tools

  22. Desktop access to analysis tools & diverse data sources to using: Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’ Species geography description & distribution Climate surface & political units Genetic sequences Project – Biodiversity World Leucaena leucocephalaA tropical grazing plant The probability that the climate at any given point is suitable for it to grow

  23. To allow several parties to interact with visual data involving different: locations display media bandwidth availabilty in a shared virtual space Project - Resource Awareness Visualization Environment

  24. PSE featuring “pluggable software architecture” allows flexible use as : - workflow management for grid applications - data analysis for signal, image or text processing - application designer tool- “plug-in” your own code Project - Triana • A collection of toolboxes, & a work surface for composition • Drag & Drop” to create workflow

  25. Concluding Remarks • The vision of the Grid and e-Science is ambitious and far-reaching • The Grid is an engine for progress in medicine, healthcare and biosciences driven by a confluence of technologies • We are at the start of the Grid era. It’s a long term programme

  26. Work done at the WeSC Distributed Visualization Facility (VDF) • Translocation modeling of DNA molecules through a membrane pore

  27. Visual Molecular Dynamics

  28. Computational Steering

  29. WeSC Web Site http://www.wesc.ac.uk

  30. WeSC Contacts John Oliver Commercial Coordinator Tel: +44(0)29 2087 6998 e-mail: John.Oliver@wesc.ac.uk

  31. Thank you for coming

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