Transcript Welcome to the OMII-UK stand

OMII-UK: From Software to
Sustainable Systems
Neil Chue Hong
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
What makes something sustainable?
• “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.Teach a
man to fish, and you feed him for life.”
• Sustainable systems demonstrate four key factors:
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cohesion and identity: clear, common goals
tolerance of diversity: no “one way to do it”
conservative use of resources
adaptability to change
• "Teach a man to fish, and you introduce another
competitor into the overcrowded fishing industry. Give a
man a fish, and you stimulate demand for your product"
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Overview
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OMII-UK vision
Supporting use of software
Helping establish communities
Software as a shared facility
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Our Mission…
OMII-UK aims to provide software and
support to enable a sustained future for
the UK e-Science community and its
international collaborators
•Promote the use of good-quality open-source software
•Reduce the risk of moving to new e-infrastructure world
•Recognise distinct user communities: by domain and function
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Supporting Use of Software
• OMII-UK
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help provide access to applications
help provide support for software
help provide easy to install components
help promote standards to make it easier to interoperate
• Skills available to support long term sustainability
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productise pieces of software developed elsewhere
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Helping establish communities
• Communities require more than functional
software
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documentation and training
guaranteed long-term support
stable APIs as well as interoperable standards
sharing of best practice and issues
• Clear understanding of the requirements that
make them a distinct community
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Commissioned Software Programme
• Identify gaps in functionality or quality
required from community
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e.g. through SUPER report
• Provide funding back into the community to
meet specific needs
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through calls, or through responsive funding
Portlets, Grid APIs, Desktop Grids
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
ENGAGE
• Initiative with NGS to follow up on SUPER
and target individual research groups
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Capture research scenarios
Collaborate on e-Infrastructure designs
Implementation and deployment
• Aim to create specific examples of research
benefit from e-Infrastructure
• Get “non e-Science” groups to participate
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
OMII-UK Community Engagement
• PALs and Beta-Testers
• Open Forums
• User Board
• Different ways of understanding community
needs and gathering feedback
• Multiple approaches from multiple skill bases
to attack a common problem
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Software as a shared facility
• Communities develop to share workload and
develop specialisms
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but grow a community too large and it lacks cohesion
• OMII-UK is able to identify and generate synergies
amongst different groups
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identify specialisms which are useful across disciplines
create benefit without diluting community vision
provide networking and sharing of best practice
• Centralise software “provision” as facility
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]
Something to finish on…
“Connected, distributed systems, from power grids
to business firms to even entire economies, are
both more fragile and more robust than
populations of isolated entities.”
Duncan J. Watts
• We need to build sustainable, resilient systems
to achieve global usability
Web: www.omii.ac.uk
Email: [email protected]