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UK e-Science Booth at SC04
John Gordon
30th November 2004
SC
• SuperComputing started in 1988
– In recent years more emphasis on Distributed
Computing and Technology than pure
Supercomputing
• The name is now SC2004 rather than
SuperComputing
– The High Performance, Networking, and Storage
Conference
• UK e-Science programme has had a booth since
2002
• SC2004 was held in Pittsburgh, 6-10 November
SC2004
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Booth
Programme
Feedback
Next year?
The Booth
• CCLRC-RAL took responsibility for the
infrastructure
• A UK company, SmartPartners, arranged
the shipping and construction of the stand.
• RAL managed the networking, computers,
display, and audio-visual
• Mainly funded by EPSRC
– Some equipment loaned by RAL and others
(eg ClusterVision)
The Programme
• Dave Berry (NeSC) organised the booth
content
• 12 demonstrations with 1 or 2 flat screens
• Talks in the booth’s theatre
Demonstrations
• Public call went out early summer
– Aimed at e-Science Centres and RCs
– Calling for projects to propose demonstrations
• Review panel looked at the projects’
presence at AHM and proposed a couple
more
• Selection made early September
• Funded two people per demo
Demonstrations
GridPP: The UK's contribution to a worldwide Grid for particle physics:
Dave Colling, Imperial College
Roger Jones, Lancaster University
AstroGrid: Creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory:
Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge
Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge
EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data
The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute: Grid Computing Made
Simple
Bob Bentley, University College London
Isabelle Scholl, International Space University
Steven Newhouse, OMII
Yvonne Howard, OMII
A Market for Computational Services: Negotiation, Charging and
Brokering
William Lee, Imperial College
John Ainsworth University of Manchester
CamMon: A Visual Demonstration of jGMA and
Ubiquitous Resource Monitoring across the Grid
Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth
Resource-Aware Visualization Environment
DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft
engines
Ian Grimstead, Cardiff University
Ieuan Nicholas, Welsh e-Science Centre
Tom Jackson, University of York
Mark Jessop, University of York
GEWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration
within the aerospace research sector
Alan Davies, BAe Systems
Kevin Dyke, University of Manchester
eDiaMoND: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for breast cancer
screening
BRIDGES: A Grid Enabled Bioinformatics Workbench for Functional
Genomics
Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford
Grid-enabled Application Visualisation Services
Lakshmi Sastry, CCLRC
Ronald F. Fowler, CCLRC
Andrew Price, University of Southampton
Also an informal demonstration of GeoDise:
Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow
Talks
• A programme of 25 talks was organised
for the booth
• Speakers drawn from demonstrators,
other attendees, and via Access Grid from
the UK.
• All broadcast on AG
Talks
Wednesday 10th November, 10:00 - 18:00
UK e-Science Talks at SC2004
10.15
[All talks will be broadcast by Access Grid]
Monday 8th November, 19:00 - 21:00 (Gala Opening)
19.30
An Introduction to UK e-Science (Anne Trefethen, UK eScience Core Programme)
20.00
The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute: Grid
Computing
Made Simple (Steven Newhouse, OMII)
20.30
EGEE: Building a pan-European production Grid (Malcolm
Atkinson, National e-Science Centre)
11.15
12.15
13.15
14.00
14.45
Tuesday 9th November, 10:00 - 18:00
10.15
11.15
12.15
13.15
14.15
15.15
16.15
17.15
The Semantic Mouse Atlas (Richard Baldock, Human Genetics
Unit)
RealityGrid: Real science on computational grids (Peter
Coveney, University College London)
The Semantic Grid (David De Roure, University of
Southampton)
Understanding the nature of matter: Using Grids to compute
on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke,
National e-Science Centre)
GeWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid
integration within the aerospace research sector (Alan Davies,
BAe Systems)
DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring
of aircraft engines (Tom Jackson, University of York)
EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data
(Bob Bentley, UCL)
Welcome to the real world: Industry and the Grid (Paul
Graham, EPCC)
15.30
16.15
17.15
The eMinerals integrated compute and data grid for
molecular simulations (Martin Dove, National Centre for
Environmental e-Science)
Portals for integrated services for e-Research and Learning
(Rob Allan, CCLRC)
An extensible framework for data integration (Malcolm
Atkinson, National e-Science Centre)
A black hole census: example science from AstroGrid, the
UK’s Virtual Observatory (Nicholas Walton, University of
Cambridge)
Overview of UK e-Science (Tony Hey, UK e-Science Core
Programme)
Understanding the nature of matter: Using Grids to compute
on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke,
National e-Science Centre)
GEODISE: Grid-enabled toolkits for the engineer (Andrew
Price, University of Southampton)
Integrative Biology: Using Grid technology to tackle two
Grand Challenges - the in-silico modelling of heart failure and of
cancer (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)
OGSA-DAI: Data access and integration on the Grid (Amy
Krause, EPCC)
Thursday 11th November, 10:00 - 16:00
10.15
e-Protein: A distributed pipeline for structure-based proteome
annotation using Grid technology (Mike Sternberg, Imperial
College London)
11.15
The Semantic Grid (David de Roure, University of
Southampton)
12.15
GENIE: Tuning Earth system model components using a Gridenabled data management system (Andrew Price, University of
Southampton)
13.15
AstroGrid: New technology creating the UK’s Virtual
Observatory (Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge)
14.15
eDiaMoND: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for
breast cancer screening (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)
Pictures
Visitors
Visitors to UK Booth by Country
• Visitors to the booth had their name
badges swiped to record their details
• 902 recorded
Afghanistan
Australia
Austria
Brazil
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
India
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Korea
Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Puerto Rico
Singapore
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Taiwan
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
USA
– Although the card reader was broken for a
while.
– Estimate
1000
SC2003
UK
japan
australia
korea
norway
netherlands
china
singapore
hungary
twaiwan
spain
austria
canada
germany
france
italy
south korea
turkey
new zealand
USA
• cf 353 at Phoenix 2003
Other Observations
• Many other countries with booths
– Countries – Netherlands, Hungary, Austria
– Organisations – France, Japan, Taiwan,
Germany, Spain, Brazil, Australia
– UK – Daresbury, EPCC, Manchester
• eIRG recommended that FP6 Grid
Programmes be represented in 2005
Feedback
• The overall feeling was that the stand was a
success and that attending had been beneficial.
• The demonstrators had all made good contacts
and were grateful for the opportunity to
demonstrate their work.
• They also appreciated the chance to learn what
is being done elsewhere by visiting the other
stands at the show.
• Most people said they would like to attend again
Suggestions
• Identifiable Logo/Banner
– Union Flag?
• Open up demo area
– Poster areas hide the demos
• Bigger displays
– Plasma screen will reduce poster space
• More visual talks
• More guides to lead visitors to demos
• Stricter management of demos
Next Year
• This year’s grant covers
storage of the booth
– Could be used elsewhere
• Booked 40’x40’ booth for
Seattle 12-18 Nov
– No cost yet
– Shared boundary with AIST
• SC Global
– Collaborative working over AG
• StorCloud
– Space to demo high-bandwidth