Transcript UK e-Science National e-Science Centre 22 January 2003

UK e-Science
National e-Science Centre
Visit of Dr Carol Kovac
General Manager Life Sciences
IBM
Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk
22nd January 2003
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NeSC in the UK
e-Science Institute
Database
Task Force
National
Architecture Task Force
Engineeringe-Task Force
Science
Centre
HPC(x)
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
Daresbury Lab
Manchester
Cambridge
Hinxton
Oxford
Cardiff
RAL
London
Southampton
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NeSC + IBM
Support & Secondment Dr Andrew Knox
Data Integration over the Grid
OGSA-DAI
Software Released
Blue Dwarf Donation
Scientific Data Research
Evaluation of IBM Grid Technology
Open Grid Services
Biomedical Research Data Integration
BRIDGES proposal
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1a. Request to Registry
for sources of data
about “x”
SOAP/HTTP
Registry
1b. Registry
responds with
Factory handle
service creation
API interactions
2a. Request to Factory for access
to database
Factory
Client
2c. Factory returns
handle of GDS to
client
3a. Client queries GDS with
XPath, SQL, etc
3c. Results of query returned to
client as XML
2b. Factory creates
GridDataService to manage
access
Grid Data
Service
3b. GDS interacts
with database
XML /
Relationa
l
database
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Interdependence
Models
Theory
Data
Computing
Data
Experiment
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Biomedical Data
Opportunities
Global Production of
Published Data
Volume Diversity
Combination 
Analysis  Discovery
Opportunities
Specialised Indexing
Structurally varied
replication
Consistent Structured
Universe of Discourse
Data & Computation
Integration
Challenges
Data Huggers
Meagre metadata
Ease of Use
Automated, optimised
integration
Traceability, Dependability
Challenges
Approximate Matching
Multi-scale optimisation
Bad habits / industrial
structures
Safety and Multi-scale
optimisation
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