An Introduction to UK e-Science Anne E Trefethen Deputy Director UK e-Science Core Programme

What is e-Science ? ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation infrastructure that will enable it.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and Technology

The UK e-Science Programme Collaborative projects Director’s Management Role Director’s Awareness and Co-ordination Role Generic Challenges EPSRC (£15m) £16.2m, DTI (£15m) ? Industrial Collaboration Pilot Application Programme PPARC (£26m) £31.6m BBSRC (£8m) £10.0m MRC (£8m) £13.1m NERC (£7m) £8.0m ESRC (£3m) £10.6m EPSRC (£17m) £18.0m CLRC (£5m) £5.0m Research Councils (£74m), £96.3m DTI (£5m) ? Technical Advisory Group

UK e-Science Budget ( ) Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST) EPSRC Breakdown Total: £213M OST + £20M DTI +£30M Ind + £100M JISC + Industrial Contributions

Programme Elements 1.Science Applications 2.Middleware Development 3.National Grid Service & support for users 4.Digital Curation Centre 5.Industrial Collaboration 6.International engagement

Science Drivers GridPP: The UK's contribution to a worldwide Grid for particle physics AstroGrid: Creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data A Market for Computational Services: Negotiation, charging and brokering CamMon: A visual demonstration of jGMA Ubiquitous resource monitoring across the Grid RAVE: Resource-Aware Visualization Environment Grid-enabled Application Visualisation Services DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft engines GEWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration within the aerospace research sector

Space Weather

Cosmology

Mass-scale Data Mining

Integrative Biology From genes… …to man Multi-scale modelling of the heart Integrative Biology project

UK e-Science Programme Cambridge Newcastle Edinburgh Oxford Glasgow Manchester Cardiff Southampton Belfast Multi-disciplinary applied projects –~40 Pilot projects in broad range of disciplines – Engineering, Astrophysics, Medical research, Healthcare, chemistry, environment….. –All involve Applied Scientists & Computer Scientists –Award winning research Core Technology Programme –Regional e-Science Centres –Centres of Excellence –Portfolio of ~50 Industrially focussed projects –Approx 60 UK companies > £30M invested –e-Science Institute –Large international involvement

UK e-Science Centres National & Regional e-Science Centres · National e-Science Centre (NeSC)National e-Science Centre (NeSC) · Belfast e-Science Centre (BeSC)Belfast e-Science Centre (BeSC) · Cambridge e-Science Centre (CeSC)Cambridge e-Science Centre (CeSC) · CLRC e-Science Centre (CLRCeSC)CLRC e-Science Centre (CLRCeSC) · e-Science North West (eSNW)e-Science North West (eSNW) · Grid Support Centre (GSC)Grid Support Centre (GSC) · London e-Science Centre (LeSC)London e-Science Centre (LeSC) · North East e-Science Centre (NEeSC)North East e-Science Centre (NEeSC) · Oxford e-Science Centre (OeSC)Oxford e-Science Centre (OeSC) · Southampton e-Science Centre (SeSC)Southampton e-Science Centre (SeSC) · Welsh e-Science Centre (WeSC)Welsh e-Science Centre (WeSC) e-Science Centres of Excellence · The White Rose GridThe White Rose Grid · UCLUCL · BristolBristol · LancasterLancaster · BirminghamBirmingham · ReadingReading · LeicesterLeicester

Projects e-Minerals e-Materials Orbital Dynamics of Galaxies Bioinformatics (using BLAST) GEODISE project UKQCD Singlet meson project Census data analysis MIAKT project e-HTPX project. RealityGrid (chemistry) Users Leeds Oxford UCL Cardiff Southampton Imperial Liverpool Sheffield Cambridge Edinburgh QUB BBSRC CCLRC. Interfaces OGSI::Lite

Repository for UK-developed Open Source ‘e- Science/Cyber-infrastructure’ Middleware Compliance testing for GGF/WS standards Documentation, specification and QA Fund work to bring ‘research project’ software up to ‘production strength’ Fund Middleware projects for identified ‘gaps’ Work with US NMI, EU Projects and others Supported by major IT companies

OMII Distribution 1 Oct 2004 Collection of tested, documented and integrated software components for Web Service Grids A base built from off-the-shelf Web Services technology A package of extensions that can be enabled as required An initial set of Web Services for building file- compute collaborative grids Technical preview of Web Service version of OGSA-DAI database middleware Sample applications

OMII future distributions Include the services in previous distributions + OMII managed programme contributions –Database service –Workflow service –Registry service –Reliable messaging service –Notification service Interoperability with other grids Security solutions

Digital Curation Centre e-Science projects producing more scientific data than has been collected in the whole of human history Need to research and develop technologies and best practice for curating digital data Need to liaise closely with individual research communities, data archive centres and university libraries Core Programme together with JISC have established a Centre for R&D and Best Practice in Data Curation technologies led by Edinburgh University Building bridges between the digital libraries community, the social scientists and the natural scientists.

Conclusion First phase - building the community – creating prototypes – proof of existence - engagement Now moving into production phase – investing in the research infrastructure of the future – sustainability The technical issues are hard but the social ones are the really difficult ones.