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Training, Outreach & Education
Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and Internationally
Author/Presenter :
Training, Outreach & Education
Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research
- an overview
Making use of the UK's advanced computing services for research
- an overview
David Fergusson
JISC eRoadshow Liverpool
National eScience Centre
Open meeting place for researchers using computingExamples and projects to help show what can be doneBringing users, developers and service providers togetherHelping represent the UK internationallyTraining & outreach
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What is JISC?
The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of ICT to support education and research. JISC funds a nationalservices portfolio (e.g. JANET) and a range of programmes (e.g. Use of Technology to Support Admissions to HE) and projects (e.g. Google Generation project).
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eResearch
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Socio-technical change
Swimming in a digital sea!Community intelligenceUbiquity of network devicesTransition in power of affordable computingScale and variety of digital dataAdvances in digital communications
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Amazon
Some customers are using the Amazon Web-scale computing services to provide grid-like environments (Werner Vogels)
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eBay> 15,000 “standard” PCs
Updates on 2 week cycle
“build Grid” development environment
build in 1/2 hr
Deploy automatically
Federated databases
Virtualisation
Enterprise grid alliance - implementing OGSA
Ability to scale and adapt rapidly
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Convergence of simulations
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Research activity is changing
The view of what is a research grouping is undergoing a profound changeCommunity resources becoming central
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British Trust Ornithology
Long term volunteerCommunity effort
Creates the definitive Research resource
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Protein Data Bank
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Diseases by location
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CERN
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Grid - integrating resources
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Infrastructure
Need a new type of underlying infrastructure to support access to the data torrent & collaboration.
Not just super computing but high throughput computing
Democratising data access & computing power
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An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem- types of computing
Providing broad access to a range of servicesHigh Performance Computing
Large computationally intense simulationsRequires cutting edge super computing
High Throughput ComputingVery large numbers of small jobsCan use large numbers of consumer computers
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An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem
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Users
Interface machine
Cluster of PCs
Higher performance clusters
Supercomputers
Research Group ownershipResearch Group ownership
Departmental ownership
Departmental ownership
Institutional ownership
Institutional ownership
National ownershipNational ownership
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An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem
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Users
Interface machine
Cluster of PCs
Higher performance clusters
Supercomputers
Constant accessConstant access
Easily accessedEasily accessed
Requires grant support
Requires grant support
Peer reviewed access
Peer reviewed access
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International collaborations
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Timeline
Today
BroadcastiBroadcastingng
100 years100 years
BroadcastiBroadcastingng
100 years100 yearsTelecommunicatTelecommunicationsions
170 years170 years
TelecommunicatTelecommunicationsions
170 years170 years
PrintingPrinting600 years600 yearsPrintingPrinting
600 years600 years
WritingWriting5,000 5,000 yearsyears
WritingWriting5,000 5,000 yearsyears
Grunts andGrunts andbody body languagelanguage
500,000 500,000 yearsyears
Grunts andGrunts andbody body languagelanguage
500,000 500,000 yearsyears
SpeechSpeech300,000 300,000 yearsyears
SpeechSpeech300,000 300,000 yearsyears
Home ComputersHome ComputersInternet and WWWInternet and WWW
Mobile phonesMobile phonesGrid and Web 2.0Grid and Web 2.0
~30 years~30 yearsWeb 3.0 and Ubiquitous Web 3.0 and Ubiquitous
connected devicesconnected devices
Home ComputersHome ComputersInternet and WWWInternet and WWW
Mobile phonesMobile phonesGrid and Web 2.0Grid and Web 2.0
~30 years~30 yearsWeb 3.0 and Ubiquitous Web 3.0 and Ubiquitous
connected devicesconnected devices“Wellbeing” the global-scale killer app., Sir Robin
Saxby Oct. 2006
Foundations for Collaborative Behaviour
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EGEE Expertise & ResourcesMore than 90 partners 32 countries12 federations
Major and national Grid projects in Europe, USA, Asia
+ 27 countries through related projects:
BalticGridSEE-GRIDEUMedGridEUChinaGridEELA
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MyExperiment
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http://www.myexperiment.org/
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Workflow sharing2512/3/06
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Workflow example
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Roadshow entry – file sharing
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What are distributed services
Not end to end solutions but sets of resources that can be combined to make solutions.
Individual bricks to build up.
What is the glue?
Application to application communication.- Web services and intermediate data formats- Not always there yet
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NGS providing the glue to allow access to heterogeneous systems
Training, Outreach & Education
Author/Presenter :
UK e-Infrastructure
LHC
I SI S TS2
HPCx + HECtoR
Users get common access, tools, inf ormation, Nationally supported services, through NGS
I ntegratedinternationally
VRE, VLE, IE
Regional and Campus grids
Community Grids
Slide: Neil Geddes
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JISC Services
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JISC Services – Access to UK collections
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Edina
http://edina.ac.uk/
Collections DescriptionDigimap is a collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain to UK tertiary education. Data is available either to download to use with appropriate application software such as GIS or CAD, or as maps generated by Digimap online.There are a number of collections available, each requiring a separate institutional subscription. Once subscribed, access is free at the point of use. Some collections also require individual registration.
• Digimap - Ordnance Survey® CollectionHistoric Digimap - historic maps from LandmarkGeology Digimap - geological maps and data from the British Geological SurveyMarine Digimap - hydrographic maps and data from SeaZone
Uses of DigimapExample ApplicationsDetailed Case Studies
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MIMAS
http://www.mimas.ac.uk/
What is Mimas?
Mimas is a JISC and ESRC-supported national data centre providing the UK Higher Education, Further Education and research community with access to key data and information resources to support teaching, learning and research across a wide range of disciplines.
• Users from authorised institutions can access Mimas services free of charge*.
This website is a gateway to all Mimas services and projects.
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MIMAS services
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JISC services
JISC funds a range of content, resource discovery, advisory and support services to address the needs of all users in further and higher education, and research councils. Some of these services are included in this catalogue.
For more information about all JISC Services visit: www.jisc.ac.uk
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UK Data Archive
• UK Data ArchiveThe UK Data Archive (UKDA) is a national resource centre that acquires, disseminates, preserves and promotes the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the United Kingdom.
• http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
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JISC Virtual Research Environments
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VRE definitionA VRE helps researchers in all disciplines manage the increasingly complex range of tasks involved in carrying out.
A VRE will provide a framework of resources to support the underlying processes of research on both small and large scales, particularly for those disciplines which are not well catered for by the current infrastructure.
VREs add value to the research process across all disciplines by complementing and inter-working with existing resources and by being flexible and adaptable to changing requirements.
The approach being taken is based on an architecture which is extensible and supports, but does not restrict, the resources needed by individual research teams.
The concept of a VRE is evolving, and the intention of this programme is not to produce a complete VRE, but rather to define and help to develop the common framework and its associated standards and to encourage others to work within this framework to develop and populate VREs with applications, services and resources appropriate to their needs.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/vre2.aspx
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VERA
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Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology
http://vera.rdg.ac.uk/index.php