NGS Response to ‘A Strategic Plan for the UK Research Computing Ecosystem’ Cloudscape III - EGI Use Case1
Input Sources Collaboration Board – Member institutions represented by higher management (e.g. PVC-Research) nominated member of staff to give authoritative institutional view Representatives of National and International(ESFRI) projects
Collaboration Board Meeting 6 th July Birmingham Bristol Brunel Cardiff Leeds Liverpool Manchester Oxford Southampton STFC Royal Holloway York
Institutional Feedback Data must be a first class citizen Data management policy requirements; – How can data be made Open Access within collaborative research projects but still curated as per RC requirements? Requirement for scaling from institutional (from Desktops via HPC clusters) to national and international resources Multi faceted entry mechanisms to e-infrastructure are a necessity Shared services using licensed software must be handed in more common ways Must have common mechanisms for accounting and reporting to institutions about services used on external e-Infrastructure, including commercial providers
Projects Meeting (24 th June) ELIXIR – Andrew Lyall (EBI) LifeWatch – Alex Hardisty (Cardiff) EURO-ARGO – Justin Buck (BODC) sLHC/WLCG – John Gordon (STFC) CLARIN/DARIAH – Martin Wynne (OeRC) DIRAC – Jeremy Yates (UCL) Digital Social Research – Megan Meredith-Lobay (OeRC)
Projects Input for the 8 th July e-infrastructure is a wide and diverse area, it cannot be pigeon holed into any single type of resource to the detriment of others, all types must be available in a co-ordinated manner. Many problems communities face are not technical but social, we must not try to impose technical solutions that don’t fit Projects are increasingly looking to services rather than physical resources, but wish to see new types of resource available in a co-ordinated manner alongside more traditional systems Some projects already have resources they wish to aggregate and are/have been working with the NGS currently, e.g. DiRAC, NeISS, NSCCS, SKA, CCP4. Some projects have extremely strong RC participation and this will shape other researchers from their domain
Future The NGS including current and future stakeholders fully supports the vision of a more integrated e-Infrastructure to support academic research in the UK We must build on experience taking note of successes and failures to ensure that we move forward as a community