Remaining Competitive as Research Goes Digital Richard Kenway University of Edinburgh

Congratulations UCL! How is the research landscape changing? How should national e-infrastructure respond? What is the future for tier 2? April 2016Richard Kenway2

Big Data April 2016Richard Kenway3

Research Today April 2016Richard Kenway4 Observational Data Fundamental Theory Computational Science Data Science models patterns/machine learning effective theories explanation “… the science of learning from data” Donoho 2015 … not four separate methodologies

“It’s the data, stupid” moving it – HPC’s problem → architectures monetizing it – industry’s problem → skills securing it – infrastructure’s problem → authorisation + authentication using it – society’s problem → ethics April 2016Richard Kenway5 … data problems are setting the agenda problem method solution big data 3 V’s volume velocityvariety co-design 3 A’s exploit 3 S’s applications algorithms architectures software skillsscience

April 2016Richard Kenway6 “Headed by the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, Warwick and UCL - the Alan Turing Institute will attract the best data scientists and mathematicians from the UK and across the globe to break new boundaries in how we use big data in a fast moving, competitive world.” Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills 28 Jan 2015 Headquarters at the British Library, St Pancras

Expanding role for regional centres new users – all disciplines becoming digital, many novices to train new architectures – multicore, GPU, memory, energy efficiency, fault tolerance new software – Moore’s law now demands strong scaling new data – mechanisms to share and combine data securely April 2016Richard Kenway7 the scalable solution

Reinventing Tier 2 Computational and Data Science support complex workflows span all disciplines encourage new users Regional role training and applications support “on ramps” for SMEs must address the relationship to commercial cloud provision National role diversity of novel architectures with common access arrangements new applications to make the case for the next tier 1 architecture … grandchild of ARCHER and route to exascale April 2016Richard Kenway8 … driving innovation regionally and nationally