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The National e-Science Centre and UK e-Science Programme

The National e-Science Centre and UK e-Science Programme. Muffy Calder University of Glasgow http: //www.nesc.ac.uk http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy. An overview. E-Science challenges and opportunities Grid computing challenges and opportunities Activities UK and international

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The National e-Science Centre and UK e-Science Programme

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  1. The National e-Science Centreand UK e-Science Programme Muffy Calder University of Glasgow http: //www.nesc.ac.uk http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~muffy

  2. An overview • E-Science • challenges and opportunities • Grid computing • challenges and opportunities • Activities • UK and international • Scotland and National e-Science Centre

  3. e-Science ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’ ‘e-Science will change the dynamic of the way science is undertaken.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and Technology

  4. The drivers for e-Science • More data • instrument resolution and laboratory automation • storage capacity and data sources • More computation • computations available, simulations doubling every year • Faster networks • bandwidth • need to schedule • More interplay and collaboration • between scientists, engineers, computer scientists etc. • between computation and data

  5. The drivers for e-Science • Exploration of data and models • in silico discovery • Floods of public data • gene sequence doubling every 9 months • Searches required doubling every 4-5 months In summary Shared data, information and computation by geographically dispersed communities.

  6. HPC Experiment Storage Analysis HPC Scientist Experiment Computing Storage Analysis HPC Current model: ad-hoc client-server

  7. Experiment Analysis MIDLEWARE Computing Storage Scientist Storage Experiment Analysis Computing Storage Computing The vision: computation & information utility

  8. e-Science Examples • Bioinformatics/Functional genomics • Collaborative Engineering • Medical/Healthcare informatics • Earth Observation Systems (flood monitoring) • TeleMicroscopy • Virtual Observatories • Robotic Telescopes • Particle Physics at the LHC • EU DataGrid particle physics, biology & medical imaging, Earth observation • GridPP, ScotGrid • AstroGrid

  9. HumanModels Multi-disciplinary Simulations WingModels • Lift Capabilities • Drag Capabilities • Responsiveness AirframeModels StabilizerModels • Deflection capabilities • Responsiveness Crew Capabilities - accuracy - perception - stamina - re-action times - SOP’s EngineModels • Braking performance • Steering capabilities • Traction • Dampening capabilities • Thrust performance • Reverse Thrust performance • Responsiveness • Fuel Consumption LandingGearModels Whole system simulations are produced by couplingall of the sub-system simulations

  10. Engine Models Wing Models Human Models Multi-disciplinary Simulations US NationalAirSpaceSimulationEnvironment Stabilizer Models GRC 44,000 Wing Runs 50,000 Engine Runs Airframe Models 66,000 Stabilizer Runs ARC LaRC Virtual National Air Space VNAS 22,000 Commercial US Flights a day 22,000 Airframe Impact Runs • FAA Ops Data • Weather Data • Airline Schedule Data • Digital Flight Data • Radar Tracks • Terrain Data • Surface Data Simulation Drivers 48,000 Human Crew Runs 132,000 Landing/ Take-off Gear Runs (Being pulled together under the NASA AvSP Aviation ExtraNet (AEN) Landing Gear Models Many aircraft, flight paths, airport operations, and the environment are combined to get a virtual national airspace

  11. in-flight data global network eg SITA ground station airline DS&S Engine Health Center internet, e-mail, pager data centre maintenance centre Global in-flight engine diagnostics Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment: Universities of Leeds, Oxford, Sheffield &York

  12. LHC computing assumes PC = ~ 25 SpecInt95 ~PByte/sec Online System ~100 MByte/sec Offline Farm~20,000 PCs • one bunch crossing per 25 ns • 100 triggers per second • each event is ~1 MByte ~100 MByte/sec Tier 0 CERN Computer Centre >20,000 PCs ~ Gbit/sec or Air Freight HPSS Tier 1 RAL Regional Centre US Regional Centre Italian Regional Centre French Regional Centre HPSS HPSS HPSS HPSS Tier 2 Tier2 Centre ~1000 PCs Tier2 Centre ~1000 PCs Tier2 Centre ~1000 PCs ScotGRID++ ~1000 PCs ~Gbit/sec Tier 3 Institute ~200 PCs physicists work on analysis “channels” each institute has ~10 physicists working on one or more channels data for these channels is cached by the institute server Institute Institute Institute Physics data cache 100 - 1000 Mbit/sec Tier 4 Workstations

  13. Emergency response teams • bring sensors, data, simulations and experts together • wildfire: predict movement of fire & direct fire-fighters • also earthquakes, peacekeeping forces, battlefields,… National Earthquake Simulation Grid Los Alamos National Laboratory: wildfire

  14. Earth observation • ENVISAT • € 3.5 billion • 400 terabytes/year • 700 users • ground deformation prior to a volcano

  15. To achieve e-Science we need…

  16. To achieve e-Science we need…

  17. GRID Grid the vision Computing resources Instruments Complexproblem Data People Solution Knowledge

  18. The Grid • Computing cycles, data storage, bandwidth and facilities viewed as commodities. • like the electricity grid • Software and hardware infrastructure to support model of computation and information utilities on demand. • middleware • An emergent infrastructure • delivering dependable, pervasive and uniform access to a set of globally distributed, dynamic and heterogeneous resources.

  19. The Grid Supporting computations with differing characteristics: • Highthroughput • Unbounded, robust, scalable, use otherwise idle machines • On demand • short-term bounded, hard timing constraints • Data intensive • computed, measured, stored, recalled, e.g. particle physics • Distributed supercomputing • classical CPU and memory intensive • Collaborative • mainly in support of hhi, e.g. access grid

  20. Grid Data • Generated by sensor • From a database • Computed on request • Measured on request

  21. Grid Services • Deliver bandwidth, data, computation cycles • Architecture and basic services for • authentication • authorisation • resource scheduling and coscheduling • monitoring, accounting and payment • protection and security • quality of service guarantees • secondary storage • directories • interoperability • fault-tolerance • reliability

  22. But…has the emperor got any clothes on? • Maybe string vest and pants: • semantic web • machine understandable information on the web • virtual organisations • pervasive computing “ … a billion people interacting with a million e-businesses with a trillion intelligent devices interconnected ” Lou Gerstner, IBM (2000)

  23. National and International Activities • USA • NASA Information Power Grid • DOE Science Grid • NSF National Virtual Observatory etc. • UK e-Science Programme • Japan – Grid Data Farm, ITBL • Netherlands – VLAM, PolderGrid • Germany – UNICORE, Grid proposal • France – Grid funding approved • Italy – INFN Grid • Eire – Grid proposals • Switzerland - Network/Grid proposal • Hungary – DemoGrid, Grid proposal • …

  24. AccessGrid always-on video walls UK e-science centres Edinburgh Glasgow DL Newcastle Belfast Manchester Cambridge Oxford Hinxton RAL Cardiff London Soton

  25. National e-Science Centre • Edinburgh + Glasgow Universities • Physics & Astronomy  2 • Informatics, Computing Science • EPCC • £6M EPSRC/DTI + £2M SHEFC over 3 years • e-Science Institute • visitors, workshops, co-ordination, outreach • middleware development • 50 : 50 industry : academia • UK representation at GGF • coordinate regional centres

  26. Generic Grid Middleware • All e-Science Centres will donate resources to form a UK ‘national’ Grid • All Centres will run same Grid Software - based on Globus*, SRB and Condor • Work with Global Grid Forum (GGF) and major computing companies. *Globus – project to develop open architecture, open source Grid software, Globus toolkit 2.0 now available.

  27. How can you participate? • Informal collaborations • Formal collaborative LINK funded projects • Attend seminars at eSI • Suggest visitors for eSI • Suggest themes and topics for eSI.

  28. eSI forthcoming events Friday, March 15Blue Gene Monday, March 18 IWOX: Introductory Workshop on XML Schema Tuesday, March 19 AWOX: Advanced Workshop on XML: XML Schema, Web Services and Tools Thursday, March 21GOGO: Getting OGSA Going 1 Monday, April 8 Software Management for Grid Projects Monday, April 15 DAI: Database Access and Integration Wednesday, April 17 DBFT Meeting Monday, April 29The Information Grid Sunday, July 21 GGF5/ HPDC11

  29. Watch the web pages…. www.nesc.ac.uk Thank you!

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