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OeRC and the South East
Regional e-Research
Consortium
Anne Trefethen, David Wallom
Overview
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OeRC
Projects
Reuse
Oxford-Reading joint position
The OeRC
• A new department within the Mathematical, Physical and Life
Sciences Division
– Remit to connect across the divisions to use innovative computational
and information science in multidisciplinary collaborations
• Engagement based on collaborative work
– Support current projects
– Expand e-Research into other research areas
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Shared posts
Working collaboratively in areas of research
Making our areas of expertise accessible
Helping prepare new grant applications
Providing supporting e-Infrastructure
Connecting with other groups regionally, nationally and internationally
ClimatePrediction.net
• 10 million years of climate
models run.
• ~300,000 registered volunteers
donating compute resources
• New projects sponsored by
Microsoft to demonstrate
regional as well as global
modelling of two areas of
interest, North West USA and
Southern Africa.
Building a Virtual Research
Environment for the Humanities
(BVREH)
– creating a workspace and tools for humanities
research.
• C18th Document
workspace
• Digital pens, Access Grid
• Research Discovery
Service
• Ancient Document
workspace
OptIPputer
• Linking materials (Oxford) and biomedical (San Diego)
expertise for shared visualisation and electron
microscopy using world leading facilities
• Using high performance UK Lightpath network to
establish dedicated connection with suitable QOS
Cancer and Cardiac Imaging
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Develop an architecture, and
prototype to create dynamically
configurable research
environments
Develop algorithms for locating
the mesorectal facia for
improved ability for successful
surgery
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Reusing Tools and Technologies
within OeRC and SeReRC
• Harvest and re-use technologies and tools from across e-Research
projects
– Development of volunteer computing infrastructure from CPDN for other
areas including drug discovery, transport and other public interest science
– Tools and techniques developed for Virtual Research Environments from
BVREH and Integrative Biology can be reused, e.g. Archaeology, History,
Linguistics.
– Architecture for remote microscopy of electron microscopes can be
repurposed for other imaging equipment, e.g. optical microscopy
– Algorithms and toolkits for colorectal cancer identification can be used for
other image shape based projects, e.g. Study of Ancient documents.
• Development of programming techniques and algorithms to fully utilise
hybrid systems arriving due to multi-core and easily available
accelerator technology
Oxford-Reading Joint
position
• Already benefiting from inter institutional
collaboration
• Completing survey of research computing
activities within Oxford
• User outreach
– Development of usage and possible collaboration
• Development of campus grid infrastructure
– VM based node for departmental condor pools
– Accounting infrastructure using GOLD
Conclusion
• SEReRC is of strategic importance to the OeRC
and the region
• Reusing developed tools and technologies will
give significant benefits to new research areas
• Sharing staff between collaborating institutions
will give head start for collaborative projects