1. National Grid Service Enabling Collaboration Edinburgh 09 March 2010

2. UK e - Infrastructure LHC ISIS TS2 HPCx +HECtoR Users get common access, tools, information, nationally supported services, through NGS Integrated internationally VRE, VLE, IE Regional and Campus grids Community Grids HEIs

3. Key areas Adoption of open standards Provide access to wide range of resources Integrating HEI resources and researchers Community-led support programmes Promote and facilitate training

4. Focus We Don’t do everything – Focus on Access to computational resources Access to data storage Data movement and management – Emphasis on Open standards International standards Collaboration

5. NGS Member Institutions, March 2010

6. 25 member institutes 33 heterogeneous resources 15,000 processing cores In the last 12 months 4,629,127 CPU hrs used 888,862 jobs ran 2 nd largest e-Science CA 22,121 certificates issued 4,911 active currently www.ngs.ac.uk > 75 applications Diverse User Community

7. Collaborations SAGA

8. Grid: EGI EGI.eu Office in Amsterdam (March) Information catalogs, AAA, Metadata/data catalogs, File replication, file transfer Job brokering Interfaces and portals...

9. Supporting Institutes

10. Membership Campus Champion – Liaison between HEI/research organisation and NGS Infrastructure Members (representation on Collaboration Board) – NGS Interfaces – monitored, certified, accountable – Affiliate Maintains control over permitted users – Partner Supporting access by a significant body of NGS users Publish a service level description (SLD) detailing the services offered Eligible for brokering of resources

11. Membership Programme Goals: 1.Increase the range and depth of services and resources that NGS can offer to its users 2.Provide leadership and sources of best practice to sites needing to put their resources “on the Grid” 3.Create communities able to exploit the connected resources for interdisciplinary research 4.Common point of contact for trusted brokering of services. Remove NxN agreements for sharing/brokering resources

12. Why join? Institutions have a mission to support their own users Increasing dependence on computation & data, and growing need to collaborate beyond the institution Access to NGS ‘honest’ brokering service Access to NGI. – Common voice on European e-infrastructure Growing need to illustrate ‘green’ credentials which are easily demonstrated by commitment to efficient usage of currently owned resources through ‘grid’

13. Best Practice NGS well placed for this role – Supported role to enable National Engagement – Collaborative activity not tied to 1 institution Coordination connected to National Facilities – Push an integration agenda, not specific field – Track record (RCUK international review) Opportunities – Growing recognition of role NGI, BBSRC + The Genome Analysis Centre, GridPP, BADC... – Even better with your experience/expertise/services Application expertise

14. Supporting Collaboration “Grid” accounting – Support a person, group, project, institution... A “Virtual Organisation” – Share or exchange resources NGS acts as “honest broker” Standard interfaces give some future-proofing Opportunities – Support research collaborations (proven tools) – Load balancing – Value added tools with broad application – see next page...

15. Outsourcing Standard interfaces – Simplify and reduce barrier to moving work – Avoid lock in and reduce barriers to moving – Allow 3 rd part providers to offer services NGS “honest broker” role Opportunities – Sharing resources through common interfaces – Trading/buying/selling via NGS mediation – “commercial” services through standard interfaces E.g. cloud, data storage, training...

16. Impact Improve accessibility to local resources Widen accessibility to local resources Use once Use anywhere Share/Trade/Buy/Sell resources – Brokering, monitoring, accounting of services Facilitate collaboration nationally and internationally

17. What does the NGS offer? Access to central support services for e-infrastructure – Helpdesk – Training – Application support – Central services e.g. CA, MyProxy, WMS, Information provider, resource discovery, etc Certification process to ensure resource providers deliver service against SLD/standard interfaces Common interfaces enable brokering of resources – Ease of access for end users – Ability to trade: buy/sell compute time across institute resource – Ability to link to international resources: International project participation – Ability to share data/migrate data/buy data services at other institutes for resilience/backup/

18. Services SARoNGS WMS HERMES Data Client Application Hosting Environment (AHE) Monitoring Accounting Direct access GSI-SSH terminal MEG NGS Portal/ Applications Repository

19. Support and Training Local & national training events NGS Road Shows National helpdesk Campus Champion Online tutorials and practicals

20. Case Studies and Documentation Specific + “Generic” – Site neutral, topical, expert – Freely available, professionally produced – Exploit NGS interfaces and services (it works) Opportunities – Support local outreach – Exploit NGS documentation – Publicise your/our achievements

21. Events Community Conferences – CCPb, Bioinformatics, NGS UF/IF, road shows

22. Research to Service Research Group NGSUniversity

23. www.ngs.ac.uk Dr Andrew Richards andrew.richards@stfc.ac.uk Questions?

24. Case Studies Note (to delete): CD suggests case studies highlighting different benefits of NGS, e.g. increased speed (burglary), more complex calculations/simulations (dinosaurs), novel technologies and interoperability (GENIUS), variety of services and interoperability with other resources (GENIE)… They all have applied benefits and impact on people/UK

25. Predicting Crime Nick Malleston, Leeds University burglary rates agent-based predictive models vary environmental factors, predicts burglar’s behaviour adapted Java program to run across Grid NGS speeds things up - 2.5 years of results in under a week

26. Dinosaur locomotion Karl Bates, University of Manchester muscle activation patterns in dinosaurs NGS allows increased model sophistication

27. Oceans and Climate Andrew Price, GENIE project, Southampton thermohaline circulation in oceans integrates component earth models future climate prediction 5 yrs computations in 3 months integrates NGS and other resources NGS hosts database users share simulations, metadata

28. Cerebral blood flow http://wiki.realitygrid.org/wiki/GENIUS processes 2D MRI images, recreates 3D vasculature map visualise and steer the model in real time advanced resource reservation utilize international federated grid of supercomputers GENIUS project

29. ESFRI Projects European Strategic Forum for Research Infrastructure – “bottom up” list of (~30) pan-European RI – Strong support from EC Opportunities – Signposts for the future – Ensure UK access to key RI ELIXIR, BBMRI, ICOS, HiPER, XFEL, CLARIN, DARIAH... – EC support – in connection with EC e-Infrastructure