Slide David Britton, University of Glasgow IET, Oct 09 1 Prof. David Britton GridPP Project leader University of Glasgow GridPP30 26 th Mar 2013 GridPP30 The New Agenda(s)

Slide Since last time… David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 2

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Slide 2012 Technology Hype Cycle David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 4

Slide 2012 Cloud Hype Cycle David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 5

Slide 2012 Big Data Hype Cycle David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 6

Slide The v’s of Big Data David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 7 Volume – talking petabytes, or at least 100s terabytes. Variety – Can be structured or unstructured or a a mixture. Velocity – A big driver: need iterations in O(day). Veracity – Accuracy… “dirty-data” is common but harder to handle. Value – What is the information worth? Very much a driver of the technology. Four paradigms of science? 1 st – Observation and Experimentation 2 nd – Analytical or Theoretical methods 3 rd – Computational or Simulation driven discovery 4 th – Data-driven discovery.

Slide Are we Big Data? Yes and no; just like the cloud. Message is we can contribute and, as a funding concept, we should try and make better use than we did of cloud. We are responding (rather late now – but constrained by funding cycle) to Cloud but Big-Data is perhaps a bigger mindset... David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 8 Volume – talking petabytes, or at least 100s terabytes. Variety – Can be structured or unstructured or a a mixture. Velocity – A big driver: need iterations in O(day). Veracity – Accuracy… “dirty- data” is common but harder to handle. Value – What is the information worth? Very much a driver of the technology.

Slide Be careful! David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 9

Slide 2012 Investment We got no part of £189m and STFC got a minority (SKA and HC). UK3A We’ve registered concern with STFC David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 10

Slide ELC etc ELC Joining up infrastructure –Directors Group (GridPP, DiRAC, SCD, HC, STFC, Janet, Sanger, NCAS, EPCC …) –Survey etc –Interface to business Evolve or become irrelevant. David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 11

Slide Meeting Themes David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 12 GridPP21: Coming of Age and being informed (Communication and information). GridPP22: Service Resilience and Hardening the Grid. GridPP23: Final Steps – Getting ready for LHC data. GridPP24: Data! GridPP25: Scaling the Peaks ahead (looking at technical challenges). GridPP26: Efficiency and Effectiveness. GridPP27: (at CERN) GridPP in the International Context. GridPP28: UK Operations. GridPP29: Evolution (looking at evolving requirements and environment). GridPP30: Agenda Alignment. GridPP31: GridPP5 Proposal

Slide GridPP30 Themes Cloud Computing and The Impact Agenda. (Positioning ourselves for GridPP5) David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 13

Slide GridPP31 Theme: GridPP5 David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP Purely operational or some element of development? 2. Technical implementation: What would the GridPP5 Grid look like? 3. Political instantiation of the grid? 4. Boundary services: NGI/EGI APEL, CA, VOMS, and network? 5. Currently a big push in the UK to join-up the computing ecosystem (including HPC) – this needed to be an energy efficient computing ecosystem. We could not submit a bid in isolation… 6. Impact agenda!

Slide So, over to our Cloud Consultant… David Britton, University of Glasgow GridPP30 15