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Supporting Education and
Research
Peter Clarke
National e-Science Centre
University of Edinburgh
Supporting education and research
Overview of JISC
Infrastructure Support
Programmes and initiatives
Thanks to
Sarah Porter, Bill Oliver, Maia Dimitrova, Sara Hassan
Chris Rushbridge, Liz Lyon
Neil Geddes, Stephen Pickles
David Salmon, Jeremy Sharp
Shantenu Jha, Matt Harvey
Leslie Carr, John MacColl
Kevin Tan
Dean Jones
Michael Rains
Mission
To provide world-class
leadership in the innovative
use of ICT, to support
education and research
JISC Strategic Aims
(slightly shortened)
• To …enable UK education and research activities to be world class through
the use of ICT
• To … enable institutions to make economic, efficient and legally competent
use of ICT…
• To … provide positive, personalised learning experiences and aid student
progression
• To develop … partnerships with organisations in UK and abroad
• To advise, inform and implement the strategies of Government, Funding
Councils and RCs
Responsibilities to
Schools
Further
Education
Higher
Education
Research
Councils
Content
Services & Structure
Infrastructure
Teaching and Learning
Research
Income
JISC Structure
Audit committee
Nominations committee
Remuneration committee
JISC Support of Research committee
JISC Networking committee
JISC
Board
JISC Integrated Information Environment committee
JISC Content Services committee
JISC Learning & Teaching committee
JISC Organisational Support committee
Expenditure
Super JANET
JISC provide budget to UKERNA
JISC guide UKERNA through the
JCN
UKERNA provide and manage
JANET
Present incarnation is SJ4
Regional Networks
1000
600
May-99
Aug-99
Nov-99
Feb-00
May-00
Aug-00
Nov-00
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May-01
Aug-01
Nov-01
Feb-02
May-02
Aug-02
Nov-02
Feb-03
May-03
Aug-03
Nov-03
Feb-04
May-04
Aug-04
Nov-04
Feb-05
JANET Usage
TBytes
Summer
break
Institutions
External
800
SJ4
400
200
0
Month
JANET Reliability
100
Availability (%)
99.9
99.8
99.7
99.6
99.5
99.4
99.3
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R&D Networking
SJ4 had a limited R&D network
UKLight is a pervasive network dedicated to R&D
 Research applications needing networks
 Network researchers
… augments SuperJANET-4
…allowed UK to join global infrastructure
ClydeNet
Glasgow
CCLRC DL
10G
C&NL MAN
Lancaster
NNW
Manchester
MidMAN
Birmingham
5G
EaStMAN
Edinburgh
7.5G
7.5G
YHMAN
Leeds
10G
10G
Glasgow Edinburgh
Leeds
Warrington
Reading
London
10G
CCLRC
RAL
7.5G
Cambridge
7.5G
10G
Bristol
Portsmouth
Chicago
20G
ULCC
UCL
2.5G
Imperial
10G
10G
Amsterdam
Particle Physics and
the Large Hadron
Collider
US: Fermilab
UK: CCLRC - RAL
DE: Karlesruhe
NL: Nikhef
Radio
Astronomy
Onsala
Sweden
Jodrell Bank
UK
Westerbork
Netherlands
JIVE
Medicina
Italy
Effelsberg
Germany
Torun
Poland
Enhancing HPC capability
CSAR
steering: control
and status
compressed
video
HPCx
checkpoint
files
visualization
data
visualization
engine
long term storage
Other users
– Integrative Biology piloting use for e-Health
– 2 Network research projects: 46PaQ & MASTS
– Expressions of interest from projects in
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Belfast
Birmingham
Brunel
Cranfield
Edinburgh
Glasgow
York
SuperJANET5
Reliability
Improve by building in more
resilience
Scalability
Ability to increase bandwidth at
controllable cost
Separability
Protection of interests of teaching &
learning and research sectors
Flexibility
Responsiveness to additional
network service requirements
Visibility
Controlled access to network
monitoring and measurement
information by end users
RN
RN
Dual Connected
RN
RN
Core
Network
RN
RN
Subtending Arc
Collector Arc
Reliability
Flexibility:
function of UKlight will be included in SJ5
requirements to be served
e-Learning
e-Science
network
R&D
service
development
testbed(s)
testbed(s)
IP production network
special purpose
bandwidth
flexible transmission platform
SJ5 Status
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Contracts by end 2005
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Rollout “complete” by end of 2006
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Working with the Regional Networks to complement SJ5
As (e-)Researchers we should be very happy
there is no reason any research domain should be
limited by wide area network connectivity (within reason)
The National Grid Service
&
Grid Operations Support Centre
Funded by JISC & CCLRC
The National Grid Service
Core sites
Leeds
Manchester
Oxford
CCLRC
Partner sites
Bristol
Cardiff
Lancaster
Access to HPC facilities
HPCx
CSAR
Grid Operations Support Centre
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Helpdesk
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NGS Administration
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e-Science Certificate Authority
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A range of infrastructure services for the NGS:
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Liaison and co-ordination with OMII, NeSC, LCG/EGEE,
TeraGrid,...
Number of jobs by project
• 1117
nano-particles
• 772
protein folding
• 774
protein structure prediction
• 582
lattice-boltmann simulations
• 555
radiation transport
• 255
Neutron data analysis
• 242
Godiva
• 228
IXI (medical imaging)
Number of Registered NGS Users
• 228
Biological membranes
• 171
micromagnetics
• 123
Integrative Biology
300
Number of Users
250
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150
NGS User
Registrations
100
Linear (NGS User
Registrations)
50
0
14 January
2004
23 April
2004
01 August
09
2004
November
2004
17
February
2005
Date
28 May
2005
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September December
2005
2005
Integrative Biology
Multiscale modelling of the heart
MRI image of a beating heart
Fibre orientation ensures
correct spread of excitation
Contraction of
individual cells
NGS is used extensively
to implement grid enabled
versions of existing heart
and tumour models.
Current flow through
ion channels
ConvertGrid
2001
Census
Experian
Postcode
ONS
Convert
Tables
Wards
Query Web
Service
ConvertGrid Web
Service
X509
X509
Postcode
Sectors
Athens
authentication
Client 1
Website
CommonGIS
Applet
Services to automate extraction, geography conversion
and fusion of aggregate, geography-based datasets.
Powered by OGSA-DAI on NGS
Client 2
Command Line Client
The SPICE Project:
Showcasing SuperJANET
and the NGS / HPC
at IGrid and SC’05
mov
JISC Programmes
British Library/JISC Online Audio Usability Evaluation Workshop
Core Middleware Infrastructure
Core Middleware: Technology Development Programme
Digital Libraries in the Classroom Programme
Digital Prreservation and Records Management
Digital Repositories Programme
Digitisation Programme
Distributed e-Learning Strand
e-Learning Programme
e-Learning Tools Projects - Phase 2
Exchange for Learning (X4L) Phase 2
Exchange for Learning (X4L) Programme
Focus on Access to Institutional Resources (FAIR) Programme
JISC Framework Programme
JISC-SURF Partnering on Copyright
Network Development Programme
Portals Programme
Presentation Programme
Semantic Grid and Autonomic Computing Programme
Shared Services Programme
Supporting Digital Preservation and Asset Management in Institutions
Virtual Research Environments Programme
Virtual Research Environments
• Geographical location & disciplinary boundaries are
more and more irrelevant to large research projects
• 15 Projects
ISME:
Virtual Interaction for running Remote Experiments
Manchester, Cardiff, CCLRC
Silchester Roman Town : A VRE for Archeologists
Core Middleware Programme
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CM means:
- Authentication,
- Authorisation,
- Identifiers
- Directories
Aug
2003
Start of current Athens contract
Jul 2004
JISC Core Middleware Development
Programme begins
Nov
2004
First trial UK Shibboleth infrastructure
in place
Nov
2004
JISC town meeting on Shibboleth
initiative
Dec
2004
Athens/Shibboleth gateway available
for testing
Widely adopted (US,
Switzerland, Australia,
Finland)
Feb
2005
Core Middleware Assisted Take-up
Service begins
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Apr
2005
Core Middleware Early Adopters begin
work
21 projects/groups funded to
assist Shibboleth up-take
Jul 2005
UK Shibboleth federation policy
documentation available
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Shibboleth “Federation”
started
Apr
2006
Fully tested access management
system based on Shibboleth available
to UK HE and FE
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Demonstrations during AHM
Jul 2006
Break point in current Athens contract
(potentially renewable until July 2008)
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Centred on Shibboleth
deployment for a unified
authentication and
authorisation service
Jul 2008
Last end date for current Athens
contract
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Grid  Shibboleth Permis is still a development area
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Several projects working in this space
• DYCOM
• ESP-GRID
• FAME-PERMIS
• DYVOSE
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Recent Globus  Shibboleth announcement ……….
e-Frameworks Programme
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Everyone (e-Learning, Research, Core middleware,…) are all
developing services
Users
User Agents (Tools, Applications, Portlets, Rich Clients, etc.)
Domain Services
Learning
Services
Research
Services
Administration
Services
Etc…
Security
Services
Messaging
Services
Etc…
Common Services
Resource
Services
 The Frameworks programme is attempt to engender a coherent
approach across all JISC programmes where possible
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Aim is to avoid unnecessary
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Based upon
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Duplication
Incompatibility
Re-inventing services several times differently
Re-inventing use patterns
Reference models
Common services
Information source
Disseminating best practice
Message from programme managers is
 Need input of e-Science community
 Please engage with the work in the next months
 Probably hold a workshop for frameworks and e-Science soon
Digital Repositories Programme
• A Digital repository supports mechanisms to import, export,
identify, store and retrieve digital assets.
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written
images
Audio-video objects
Data sets
Learning material
Presentations
• We all have obligations in respect of:
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Research output
Theses
Open access
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• 21 projects supported by JISC
Institutional Repository for Research Assessment
Panel 2
Panel 1
Panel n
HEFCE RAE System
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Institutional
Repository
researchers,
academics, professors
In each institution, the
researchers simply select
their best articles from the
Institutional Repository.
These are routed through to
the institution’s Research
Management System which
prepares the final submission
for RAE 2008. Finally, the
RAE panels may access preor postprints from the
Repository.
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RAE submission
sub-collection
Institutional Research
Management System
vice chancellors, deans,
senior managers
Supporting education and research
The National Centre
for Text Mining
www.nactem.ac.uk
Supporting education and research
Objectives
• provide text mining services to UK academic
community
• broaden awareness and usage of text mining
• promote best practice
• influence research directions
• develop links with commercial suppliers and users
NaCTeM Services
• services for processing of document collections (Autumn
2006)
– available as web services
– processing performed on the Grid (NGS)
• service exemplars (Spring 2007)
– demonstrate the effectiveness of text mining
– act as reference implementations
• consultancy and advice (Autumn 2006)
– guidance on evaluation of software and resources
• education and dissemination (ongoing)
– tutorials, workshops, symposia, etc
Digital Curation Centre
• Joint JISC – eScience initiative to address
growing issue of responsibly managing the
lifecycle of important (and expensive) data
• Four Consortium partner institutions:
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University of Edinburgh (lead, EDINA/NeSC/Informatics)
University of Glasgow (HATII)
UKOLN, at University of Bath
CCLRC (Rutherford and Daresbury Laboratories)
Recent items of note
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Prolific research output
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Advisory Service Help Desk – 284 calls in 6 months
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Digital Curation Manual
– 1st chapter published , 45 commissioned
– “role of open source software in digital preservation”
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Workshop series
– Persistent identifiers
– Long term curation in repositories
– Cost models
– Long term curation in medical databases
– Site visits
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Associates Network and Forum
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1st International Conference
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International Journal of Digital Curation
Outputs in last 6 months
Peer reviewed & conference papers
18
Invited & keynote talks
14
Other talks and papers
9
Workshops given or key participation
15
Other activities and interactions
41
Visitors and seminars
19
1st DCC International Conference
• Location - Bath UK
• 29-30 September 2005
• Keynote speakers
 Clifford Lynch CNI
 Graham Cameron
European Bio-informatics
Institute
• DCC Research update
• Social highlights
Associates Network
Goals
Develop understanding, share best practice, advance
research, promote recognition, develop consensus
Membership - 204
International groups, national bodies, industry partners,
funders, research groups, HEIs, FEIs, individuals……
Benefits
Early access to R&D outputs, advisory services, training,
input to definition and design, community participation
Discussion Forum www.dcc.ac.uk
BADC
Cambridge
Leicester
Jodrell Bank
NIEeS
ESO
RLG
CMS-Bristol
BODC
NASA
NARA
CNES
ESA
RLG
BNSC
RG
IVOA
ESA
SDSC
RI
UNC
International
Collaborations
CEH
DPC
Council for
Museums, Libraries
& Archives
ResearchEDG
InstitutesGridPP
EGEE
So’ton
MIMAS
NOF
ILRT
CCLRC
NEODC
UKOLN
DELOS
AHDS
DPC
Standards
Bodies
NeSC
UofE
DLI (US)
Research
Councils
Capri
IBM
Almaden
OCLC
CDS
ESO
JHU
CSIRO
TU Vienna
Caltech
JHU
CSIRO
Data
Archive
LDC
Roslin
INRIA
MRC HGU
UPenn
Kyoto
USC
MIMAS
WT-CFG
Leicester
IC
Maastricht
Durham
NTUA
INRIA
HUJ
UPC
MaxPlanck
Dutch NA
Swiss NA
Urbino
Salzburg
UNC
EBI
GSK
ACM
HEIs
&
FE
Oxford
UofG
Innogen
NHS
NLA
OAI
NCS
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
BT
STK
RDN. OCLC
IASSIST
… and those things not
mentioned
• EDINA and MIMAS data services
• e-Learning
• Content services and subscriptions
• Regional Support Centres
• Portals programme
• Visualisation Support Network
… thankyou