Supporting education and research Supporting Education and Research Peter Clarke National e-Science Centre University of Edinburgh

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 Overview of JISC Infrastructure Support Programmes and initiatives

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

SchoolsFurther Education Higher Education Research Councils Responsibilities to Teaching and Learning Research Infrastructure Services & Structure Content

Income

JISC Structure JISC Content Services committee JISC Organisational Support committee JISC Integrated Information Environment committee JISC Learning & Teaching committee JISC Networking committee JISC Support of Research committee Audit committee Nominations committee Remuneration committee JISC Board

Expenditure ork SLA

Super JANET JISC provide budget to UKERNA JISC guide UKERNA through the JCN UKERNA provide and manage JANET Present incarnation is SJ4

Regional Networks

TBytes JANET Usage Month SJ4 Summer break

JANET Reliability

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

ULCC EaStMAN Edinburgh YHMAN Leeds CCLRC RAL Cambridge NNW Manchester MidMAN Birmingham ClydeNet Glasgow C&NL MAN Lancaster CCLRC DL 7.5G 10G 5G 10G 7.5G 20G Chicago Amsterdam 10G UCL Imperial 2.5G GlasgowEdinburgh Warrington Leeds Reading London Bristol Portsmouth 10G

Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider UK: CCLRC - RAL NL: Nikhef DE: Karlesruhe US: Fermilab

Jodrell Bank UK Onsala Sweden Medicina Italy Torun Poland Effelsberg Germany Westerbork Netherlands JIVE RadioAstronomy

visualization engine long term storage CSAR checkpoint files visualization data compressed video steering: control and status Enhancing HPC capability HPCx

Other users –Integrative Biology piloting use for e-Health –2 Network research projects: 46PaQ & MASTS –Expressions of interest from projects in Belfast Birmingham Brunel Cranfield Edinburgh Glasgow York

Controlled access to network monitoring and measurement information by end users Visibility Responsiveness to additional network service requirements Flexibility Protection of interests of teaching & learning and research sectors Separability Ability to increase bandwidth at controllable cost Scalability Improve by building in more resilience Reliability SuperJANET5

Reliability Subtending Arc RN Dual Connected Collector Arc RN Core Network RN

Flexibility: function of UKlight will be included in SJ5 flexible transmission platform IP production network special purpose bandwidth test- bed(s) e-Learninge-Science network R&D service development requirements to be served

SJ5 Status Contracts by end 2005 Rollout “complete” by end of 2006 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

The National Grid Service Services: Job submission (GT2) Storage service (SRB) Oracle Service OGSA-DAI Capacity CPUs 30+ Tera Bytes Specialist facilities Cardiff 4x16 proc SGI Bristol: Intel Lancaster SUN Cluster

Grid Operations Support Centre Helpdesk NGS Administration e-Science Certificate Authority A range of infrastructure services for the NGS: Liaison and co-ordination with OMII, NeSC, LCG/EGEE, TeraGrid,...

Number of jobs by project 1117nano-particles 772protein folding 774protein structure prediction 582lattice-boltmann simulations 555radiation transport 255Neutron data analysis 242Godiva 228IXI (medical imaging) 228 Biological membranes 171micromagnetics 123Integrative Biology

Integrative Biology Current flow through ion channels Fibre orientation ensures correct spread of excitation Contraction of individual cells MRI image of a beating heart Multiscale modelling of the heart NGS is used extensively to implement grid enabled versions of existing heart and tumour models.

ConvertGrid Services to automate extraction, geography conversion and fusion of aggregate, geography-based datasets. Postcode Sectors Wards Powered by OGSA-DAI on NGS

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 CM means: - Authentication, - Authorisation, - Identifiers - Directories Centred on Shibboleth deployment for a unified authentication and authorisation service Widely adopted (US, Switzerland, Australia, Finland) 21 projects/groups funded to assist Shibboleth up-take Shibboleth “Federation” started Demonstrations during AHM Aug 2003 Start of current Athens contract Jul 2004JISC 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 Feb 2005 Core Middleware Assisted Take-up Service begins Apr 2005 Core Middleware Early Adopters begin work Jul 2005UK Shibboleth federation policy documentation available Apr 2006 Fully tested access management system based on Shibboleth available to UK HE and FE Jul 2006Break point in current Athens contract (potentially renewable until July 2008) Jul 2008 Last end date for current Athens contract

Grid  Shibboleth  Permis is still a development area Several projects working in this space DYCOM ESP-GRID FAME-PERMIS DYVOSE Recent Globus  Shibboleth announcement ……….

e-Frameworks Programme Everyone (e-Learning, Research, Core middleware,…) are all developing services Domain Services User Agents (Tools, Applications, Portlets, Rich Clients, etc.) Learning Services Research Services Administration Services Common Services Etc… Resource Services Security Services Messaging Services Etc… Users  The Frameworks programme is attempt to engender a coherent approach across all JISC programmes where possible

Aim is to avoid unnecessary –Duplication –Incompatibility –Re-inventing services several times differently –Re-inventing use patterns Based upon –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. –written –images –Audio-video objects –Data sets –Learning material –Presentations We all have obligations in respect of: –Research output –Theses –Open access –…. 21 projects supported by JISC

Supporting education and research Institutional Repository for Research Assessment    Institutional Repository researchers, academics, professors Institutional Research Management System vice chancellors, deans, senior managers Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel n HEFCE RAE System 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 Finally, the RAE panels may access pre- or postprints from the Repository. RAE submission sub-collection   

Supporting education and research The National Centre for Text Mining

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 Objectives

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: –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 Prolific research output Advisory Service Help Desk – 284 calls in 6 months Digital Curation Manual – 1 st chapter published, 45 commissioned –“role of open source software in digital preservation” Workshop series –Persistent identifiers –Long term curation in repositories –Cost models –Long term curation in medical databases –Site visits Associates Network and Forum 1 st International Conference International Journal of Digital Curation

Peer reviewed & conference papers18 Invited & keynote talks14 Other talks and papers9 Workshops given or key participation15 Other activities and interactions41 Visitors and seminars19 Outputs in last 6 months

1 st DCC International Conference Location - Bath UK 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 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

CCLRCUKOLN UofGUofE CMS-Bristol NIEeS RG Durham WT-CFG Leicester IC Maastricht Oxford Dutch NA Swiss NA Urbino UNC Salzburg SDSC NEODC CEH RI NCS RLG Innogen NHS Capri NTUA INRIA HUJ UPC Max- Planck MIMAS IASSIST LDC ACM Data Archive EDG GridPP EGEE Cambridge Leicester Jodrell Bank DLI (US) DPC DELOS UNC ESA NASA NARA CNES ESA RLG BNSC TU Vienna UPenn EBI MRC HGU Kyoto USC INRIA GSK Roslin IBM Almaden JHU CSIRO Caltech JHU CSIRO CDS ESO OCLC AHDS Microsoft IBM Oracle BT STK BADC BODC ESO IVOA Research Councils HEIs & FE Research Institutes International Collaborations Standards Bodies DPC MIMAS ILRT Council for Museums, Libraries & Archives RDN. OCLC So’ton OAI NOF NLA NeSC

… 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