1. SWITCH Study Visit Dr Anna Kenway Centre Manager www.nesc.ac.uk 5 October 2004

2. NeSC Core Funding (£ 9M) £2.5M for eSI for 5 years £1.3M for Core activity for 5 years £3M for Grid Core Projects (needed matching industrial funding to ‘pull down’) £1.6M for support of the UK community (GridNet, eSTORM) £400k for Training (matching EGEE) £200k for JISC Interface (Additional funding for specific projects.) GBP/EUR 1.45

3. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Help establish the UK’s international role Run the e-Science Institute Undertake R&D projects Training Team

4. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Outreach – community building & website Early adopters Help establish the UK’s international role Run the e-Science Institute Undertake R&D projects Training Team

5. Community Building The Opening was an opportunity to bring Grids to the notice of the politicians (decision makers), the media and the research community We have run the biggest GGF5 to date (2001, 900 delegates) The Core programme holds an annual ‘All Hands’ meeting, which is heavily supported by NeSC

6. Community Building Staff are involved in UK working groups: Directors’ Forum Helped build a community Engineering Task Force Built the UK Grid Architecture Task Force UK Adoption of OGSA OGSA Grid Market Future approaches Security Task Force Database Task Force (now disbanded) OGSA-DAI (www.ogsadai.org.uk) GGF DAIS-WG Usability Task Force

7. Websites We run three: http://www.nesc.ac.uk http://www.allhands.org.uk http://www.egee.nesc.ac.uk/

8. The Website(s) – a Resource National e-Science Centre www.nesc.ac.uk/ Mission, Background, Foundation, Locations, Staff, Resources, Projects Register interest, Mailing lists, NeSCForge Regional associations and Collaborations News, Notices Presentations and Lectures National e-Science Institute www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/ Mission, Events (Future and Past) Register for Events, Visitor Programme, GridNet UK e-Science Map and Index of Centres www.nesc.ac.uk/centres/ Technical Papers www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/ Index of >100 Projects www.nesc.ac.uk/projects/ Task Forces www.nesc.ac.uk/teams/ General Information Glossary, Bibliography, Who’s who

9. NeSC Web site Statistics Since going ‘live’ in 2001 to 8 Sep 2004 > 4.5 million successful requests (‘hits’) transferring 273 gigabytes of data (4.8 GB in last week) In last week: Average hits per day 8593 Distinct files served 4642 … to 3572 distinct hosts Average data transferred per day (702 MB) (typical file size about 100 kB)

10. Web site Statistics

11. Early Adopters Access Grid ACF – Advanced Computing Facility A number of high performance machines ScotGrid, QCDOC, Lomond, Blue Dwarf & a SAN supported by EPCC and EUCS ‘Gridified’ Middleware supported by NeSC To be made available to the National Grid Service

12. Community Building - Access Grid – helping to develop VO’s Requires IP multicast throughout the network Crucial for multi- site project meetings Microphones Cameras

13. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Help establish the UK’s international role The focus for presenting UK e-Science Run the e-Science Institute Undertake R&D projects Training Team

14. Presenting UK e-Science Involvement in GGF Leading the OGSA-WG data design team, co-chairs of the JSDL-WG, secretary of the DAIS-WG, membership of the GFSG Involved in Supercomputing Involved in Globus Alliance International Meetings (like this) Partners in EGEE NA4 (Outreach) NA3 ( Training & Induction – Lead by Malcolm Atkinson) JRA4 (Development of Network Services) – Lead by Peter Clarke

15. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Help establish the UK’s international role Run the e-Science Institute A meeting place Workshops, conferences and events Support for research collaborations Research visitors Undertake R&D projects Training Team

16. A Meeting Place Pleasantly placed in the centre of a beautiful city People want to come here… A user friendly environment Public networks, WirelessLAN, Access Grid (but also VRVS, Net Meeting …), Internet Café, hands-on Training Room Space for real work Crossing communities Creativity: new strategies and solutions Written reports

17. Workshops & Conferences http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/

18. Events held in the first 3 Years (from 1 Aug 2001 to 31 Jul 2004) We have run just under 7 per month: 22 project meetings 26 research meetings 76 workshops 4 schools 41 training sessions 41 outreach events 12 international meetings 5 conferences 21 e-Science management meetings 19,456 delegate days 248 events 8,329 delegates 421 event days

19. ‘A picture is worth a 1000 words …’

20. Support for Research Projects e.g. AstroGrid, GridPP, ILDG, Reality Grid, Mouse Atlas By running workshops involving local and virtual attendees Funding working meetings through the visitor programme ‘Hands on’ training sessions Running Summer Schools (training/community) for e-Science postgraduate students Running web Forums, NeSCForge, mailing lists Developing an MSc in e-Science

21. eSI Research Visitors Collaborate with UK research and development Engage in and develop eSI event programme Build bridges with their community Visit for anywhere between one week and six months Link up with regional e-Science centres http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/visitors/past.html

22. Becoming a Research Visitor Establish a collaboration with NeSC Pre-established mutual interests We encourage diversity of disciplines Complementary experience, knowledge and skills We can help match interests and develop a plan Visitors already engaged in relevant R&D This is not a training opportunity Our support depends on the length and value of visit Typically covers travel and/or local living costs Application via our web site

23. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Help establish the UK’s international role Run the e-Science Institute Undertake R&D projects Reliable middleware (OGSA-DAI, SunDCG, …) Engage industry (IBM, Sun, Microsoft, HP, Oracle, …) Stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology Training Team

24. R&D Projects (Non-exhaustive list…) OGSA-DAI HPFABMAN SunGRID PGPGrid MS.NetGrid BRIDGES FIRSTDIG But we also generate a large number of reports …

25. Technical Reports The Virtual Observatory as a Data Grid, Bob Mann, Sep 03 UK Experience with OGSA, Dave Berry, Sep 03 e-Science Gap Analysis, Geoffrey Fox, David Walker, Jun 03 Scientific Data Mining, Integration and Visualisation, Bob Mann, Roy Williams, Malcolm Atkinson, Ken Brodlie, Amos Storkey, Chris Williams, Nov 02 A Rough Guide to Grid Security, Mike Surridge, Sep 02 Multi-Site Videoconferencing for the UK e-Science Programme, Stephen Booth, John Brooke, Kate Caldwell, Liz Carver, Michael Daw, David De Roure, Alan Flavell, Philippe Galvez, Brian Gilmore, Henry Hughes, Ben Juby, Ivan Judson, Jim Miller, Harvey Newman, Chris Osland, Sue Rogers, Oct 02 Database Access and Integration Services on the Grid, Norman W Paton, Malcolm P Atkinson, Vijay Dialani, Dave Pearson, Tony Storey, Paul Watson, Feb 02 Research Agenda for the Semantic Grid: A Future e-Science Infrastructure, David De Roure, Nicholas Jennings, Nigel Shadbolt, Dec 01 Databases and the Grid, Paul Watson, Dec 01

26. Technical Reports A Grid Application Framework based on Web Services Specifications and Practices, Savas Parastatidis, Jim Webber, Paul Watson, Thomas Rischbeck, Aug 03 Grid Information Systems 2003 (Draft), Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Xiao Dong Wang, Andy Richards, Mark McKeown, John Colgrave, Matthew Dovey, Mark Baker, Steve Fisher, Dec 03 Towards tractable toolkits for the Grid: a plea for lightweight, usable middleware, Jonathan Chin, Peter Coveney, Feb 04 Portals and Portlets 2003, Rob Allan, Chris Awre, Mark Baker, Adrian Fish, Mar 04 IMAGE 03: Images, Medical Analysis and Grid Environments, Dave Berry, Derek Hill, Steve Pieper, Joel Saltz, Cécile Germain-Renaud, Mar 04 Open Issues in Grid Scheduling, Alain Andrieux, Dave Berry, Jon Garibaldi, Stephen Jarvis, Djamila Ouelhadj, Mar 04 Data Provenance and Annotation, Peter Buneman, Michael Wilde. e-Science Workflow Services, Matthew Addis, Dave Berry, Earl Ecklund, Carole Goble http://www.nesc.ac.uk/technical_papers/uk.html

27. NeSC Roles Help coordinate and lead UK e- Science Help establish the UK’s international role Run the e-Science Institute Undertake R&D projects Training Team Funded both by EGEE and the UK programme

28. NeSC Training Team Training is done both at Edinburgh and elsewhere dedicated training team 5 trainers (2 funded by EGEE and 3 by JISC) support staff facilities more posts in the pipeline NeSC lead training for EGEE NextGrid UK e-Science NeSC & EGEE offer to extend their scope and activities Collaborating with all EU e-Science & e-Infrastructure projects For all Training & Education Delivering for EU Citizens, Industry & Academia

29. EGEE 22 Training Partners NeSC Edinburgh UK & Ireland GUP Linz Austria Innsbruck Austria CESNET Prague Czech Rep. BUTE Budapest Hungary ELUB Budapest Hungary MTA SZTAKI Budapest Hungary ICM Warsaw Poland PSNC Poznan Poland II-SAS Bratislava Slovakia FZK Karlsruhe Germany INFN Rome Italy KU-NATFAK Copenhagen Denmark IHEP Moscow Russia IMPB RAS Moscow Russia ITEP Moscow Russia JINR Dubna Russia PNPI Petersburgh Russia RRCKI Moscow Russia GRNET Athens Greece TAU Tel Aviv Isreal ICI Bucharest Romania

30. EGEE training delivery Since April 2004 EGEE NA3 has trained 350 people in 14 courses ranging from introductions to EGEE (induction) through application Developer to advanced level. NA3 is committed to maintaining and developing the quality of training. To do this feedback is collected from the users of courses. Training Events throughout Europe and beyond!

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