1. 10 Feb 2004Team Talent Review1 agenda OPEN SESSION 1300 Introduction & Roadmaps Kenway On-going projects 1305 OGSA-DAIT + Web Services Resource Framework Atkinson 1320 HPCX Trew 1330 BlueGene Parallel libraries, Smith Life Sciences: Model systems for the protein folding problem, Crain QCDOC, Adv Comp Facility & HECToR, Kenway Novel architectures, Topham 1415 BlueDwarf Atkinson 1430 break New directions 1440 Digital Data Curation Overview & Plans, Atkinson Information from Natural Language Data, Klein 1500 eHealth & Life Sciences Strategy, Bulfield UoE-LHB e-health programme, Proctor Bioinformatics at Edinburgh, Armstrong Medical imaging, Anderson 1545 Informatics Undergrad Curriculum, Anderson CLOSED SESSION IBM + Anderson, Atkinson, Bulfield, Fourman, Kenway, Trew Targets for 2004 1600 discussion

2. 10 Feb 2004Team Talent Review2 participants University Stuart Anderson (Informatics) Douglas Armstrong (Informatics) Malcolm Atkinson (Dir, NeSC) Grahame Bulfield (V-C, Sc & Eng) Jason Crain (Physics) Mike Fourman (Head, Informatics) Richard Kenway (AP, HPC & e-S) Ewan Klein (Informatics) Mark Parsons (EPCC) Rob Proctor (Informatics) Alan Simpson (EPCC) Lorna Smith (EPCC) Nigel Topham (Informatics) Arthur Trew (Dir, EPCC) IBM Neil Hamilton Andy Knox Freddie Moran Graham Spittle Dave Watson

3. 10 Feb 2004Team Talent Review3 roadmap 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 EPCC Institute for e-Science Informatics Forum DCC NeSC/NeSI eDIKT HPC training consultancy eHealth Neuro-/Bio-informatics/Systems Biology databases architectures

4. 10 Feb 2004Team Talent Review4 QCDOC, ACF and HECToR  Columbia-Edinburgh-Brookhaven  high compute density + fast on-chip memory –ASIC: 440 core + FPU, 4MB EDRAM, 12 serial links –256 MB per node –6D mesh, Ethernet tree –1024 nodes, < 10 kW per cabinet  since Dec: 128-node 360 MHz system  May: 2 cabinets at Columbia  Oct: 12 + 2 cabinets at ACF, 10 - 14 Tflops  ACF: £3M refurbishment, 5000 ft 2, 500kVA –multi-TB SAN, QCDOC, BG/L  HECToR: start of service delayed to end 06 –commitments from BBSRC, NERC, PPARC –EPSRC decision in Mar –expt/QCD machine in single service framework –working on partnering agreement with UKMO