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 computing Examples and projects to help show what can be done Bringing users, developers and service providers together Helping represent the UK internationally Training & outreach 212/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 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). 312/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12/3/06 eResearch

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 5 12/3/06 Socio-technical change Swimming in a digital sea! Community intelligence Ubiquity of network devices Transition in power of affordable computing Scale and variety of digital data Advances in digital communications

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 6 12/3/06 GOOGLE

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 7 12/3/06 Amazon Some customers are using the Amazon Web-scale computing services to provide grid-like environments (Werner Vogels)

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 8 12/3/06 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

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 9 12/3/06 Convergence of simulations

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 10 12/3/06 Research activity is changing The view of what is a research grouping is undergoing a profound change Community resources becoming central

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 11 12/3/06 British Trust Ornithology Long term volunteer Community effort Creates the definitive Research resource

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12 12/3/06 Protein Data Bank

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Diseases by location 1312/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 14 12/3/06 CERN

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 15 12/3/06 Grid - integrating resources

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 16 12/3/06 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

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem - types of computing Providing broad access to a range of services High Performance Computing Large computationally intense simulations Requires cutting edge super computing High Throughput Computing Very large numbers of small jobs Can use large numbers of consumer computers 1712/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem 1812/3/06 Users Interface machine Cluster of PCs Higher performance clusters Supercomputers Research Group ownership Departmental ownership Institutional ownership National ownership

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool An e-Infrastructure Ecosystem 1912/3/06 Users Interface machine Cluster of PCs Higher performance clusters Supercomputers Constant access Easily accessed Requires grant support Peer reviewed access

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12/3/06 International collaborations

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Timeline Today Broadcasti ng 100 years Broadcasti ng 100 years Telecommunicat ions 170 years Telecommunicat ions 170 years Printing 600 years Printing Writing 5,000 years Writing Grunts and body language 500,000 years Grunts and body language 500,000 years Speech 300,000 years Speech Home Computers Internet and WWW Mobile phones Grid and Web 2.0 ~30 years ~30 years Web 3.0 and Ubiquitous connected devices Home Computers Internet and WWW Mobile phones Grid and Web 2.0 ~30 years ~30 years Web 3.0 and Ubiquitous connected devices “Wellbeing” the global- scale killer app., Sir Robin Saxby Oct Foundations for Collaborative Behaviour

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 22 12/3/06 EGEE Expertise & Resources More than 90 partners 32 countries 12 federations  Major and national Grid projects in Europe, USA, Asia + 27 countries through related projects: BalticGrid SEE-GRID EUMedGrid EUChinaGrid EELA

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JISC eRoadshow Liverpool MyExperiment 2412/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Workflow sharing 2512/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Workflow example 2612/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Roadshow entry – file sharing 2712/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 2812/3/06 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

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12/3/06 NGS providing the glue to allow access to heterogeneous systems

Training, Outreach & Education Author/Presenter : Slide: Neil Geddes

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12/3/06 JISC Services

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 12/3/06 JISC Services – Access to UK collections

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool Edina 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 Digimap Example Applications Detailed Case Studies 3312/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool MIMAS 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. 3412/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool MIMAS services 3512/3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool 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: /3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool UK Data Archive UK Data Archive The 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 /3/06

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool JISC Virtual Research Environments 3812/3/06 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.

JISC eRoadshow Liverpool VERA 3912/3/06 Virtual Research Environment for Archaeology