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The Internet is about to byte back!Raising Awareness for e-Science & Grid Computing in
Industry & Commerce
John OliverCommercial CoordinatorWelsh e-Science Centre
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
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.”
Collaborative Science
LARGE HADRON COLLIDER – CERN
Typical DataRaw = 1 petabyte/secFiltered = 100Mbyte/sec = 1 meg CD ROMS per year
Physicists collaborating in an international experiment ,need to share:
• Data & storage resources• IT resources for: - Information extraction & analysis
- Large scale simulation
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
Crisis Management
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
“Post-Genomic” Bioinformatics
• 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
WALES GENE PARK
WALES BIOSTATISTICS & BIOINFORMATICS UNIT
University of Wales,Departments of:
PATHOLOGY
PHARMACOLOGY
CHEMISTRY
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
The Computing Foundationsfor e-Science
Immersive Visualization
Collaborative Tools
High Speed Networks&Broadband access
High Performance Computing
Grid Computing
What is the Grid?
• Lots & lots of resources
• Secure remote access across adminstrative domains
• Scalable discovery and seamless composition of diverse resources
The Grid Vision
• 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
Imagine a world in which computing power is as readily available as electrical power …..
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
Some “Healthy” Benefits
• Bioinformatics
• Collaborative surgical planning
• Radiotherapy treatment planning
• High content imaging in Biosciences
• Electronic patient records
• Distributed remote diagnosis
science sectors science & non-science sectors
critical
low/zero
Importanceto business
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
TODAY
i) production gridsfor research
ii) vendors claim“100’s of corporategrid customers”
criticallyimportant
PriceWaterhouseCoopers
technologymaturity
“significantmomentum”
IBM
internal useby large
corporates
Grid serviceproviders (GSP)
15% ofcorporatesusing GSPs
Gartner
harnessing computer cyclescomputing as a utility
pervasive computing
“Great GlobalGrid”
“mature”, real deployments full revolution begins
Foster & Kesselman
Take-up of Grid Technologies
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
UK e-Science Network
RAL
National Centre in Edinburgh/Glasgow
8 regional centres Grid support centre
Cambridge
Newcastle
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Cardiff
Southampton
Belfast
Oxford
LondonHinxton(EBI)
ManchesterDL
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
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
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)
Welsh e-Science Projects
25+ in progress grouped into
• Applications • Industrial Partnerships • Middlewares• Tools
Project – Biodiversity WorldDesktop access to analysis tools & diverse data sources to using:
• Species 2000 ‘Catalogue of Life’• Species geography description & distribution• Climate surface & political units• Genetic sequences
The probability that the climate at any given point is suitable for it to grow
Leucaena leucocephalaA tropical grazing plant
Project - Resource Awareness Visualization Environment
To allow several parties to interact with visual data involving different:• locations• display media• bandwidth availabiltyin a shared virtual space
Project - Triana
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
A collection of toolboxes, & a work surface for composition
Drag & Drop” to create workflow
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
Work done at the WeSC Distributed Visualization Facility (VDF)
• Translocation modeling of DNA molecules through a membrane pore
• Visual Molecular Dynamics
• Computational Steering
WeSC Web Site
http://www.wesc.ac.uk
Thank you for coming