IBM & HSBC visit

Malcolm AtkinsonDirector

& e-Science Envoy

UK National e-Science Centre & e-Science Institute

www.nesc.ac.uk30th March 2006

Overview

BackgroundUK-Science, NeSC & eSI

HistoryIBM & e-Science in Scotland

Example ProjectsBRIDGESOGSA-DAINanoCMOS-Grid

Future thinking

Globus Alliance

CeSC (Cambridge)

DigitalCurationCentre

e-Science Institute

Open Middleware

Infrastructure Institute - UK

The e-Science Centres

EGEE, ChinaGri

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Open Middleware

Infrastructure Institute - UK

Open Middleware

Infrastructure Institute - UK

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Enabling Grids for E-sciencE

INFSO-RI-508833

Geographical distribution of courses

History of a good partnership

Nick Donofrio supported our bid May 2001 for NeSC and eSIProvided IT infrastructure

Secondment part time of Dr Andy KnoxFrom IBM Greenock August 2001 to December 2004

Started OGSA-DAI project with IBMFebruary 2002

IBM Blue Gene Conference held at eSIMarch 2002

IBM Donation of a P690 for e-ScienceEdinburgh February 2003

IBM Strategy Group meeting May 2003Started BRIDGES project joint with IBM

September 2003IBM supported OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK node &e-Science Institute 5-year

BRIDGES

Glasgow Edinburgh

Leicester Oxford

London

Netherlands

Publically Curated Data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

Private data

CFG Virtual Organisation Ensembl

MGI

HUGO

OMIM

SWISS-PROT

… DATA HUB

RGD

SyntenyGrid

Service

blast

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VO Authorisation

Information Integrator

OGSA-DAI

Slide provided by Richard Sinnott: University of Glasgow

UK e-Science Presentations China 3rd December 2005

Project Partners

Funded by the Grid Core ProgrammeOGSA-DAI£3 million, 18 months, from Feb 2002

Three major releases, three interim releases

DAIT (DAI-Two)Keep the OGSA-DAI brand name£1.5 million, 24 months, from Oct 2003Four major releases

OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK nodeMerger with myGrid & OMII£1.8 million, 3 years from Nov. 2005

GGF DAIS WGStrong involvement.Standardise the interfaces

OGSA-DAI to be a reference implementation

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The OGSA-DAI Team

IBM Development Team, Hursley

NEReSC, Newcastle

NeSC, Edinburgh

ESNW, Manchester

IBM Dissemination Team

EPCC Team, Edinburgh

Prof Kai Nan Computer Network Information Centre

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Dr Yongwei Wu Department of Computing Science Tsinghua University

Working with the IBM academy

The future of e-Science

Advanced models of sustainable, flexible and multi-purpose e-Infrastructures

Integrating data and knowledge

Dynamic and pervasive systemsPersistent functions on evolving technologiesLike the global telecommunications systems