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e-Science and Global Grids
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The Role of an EU e-IRG?
Tony Hey
Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme
[email protected]
A Definition of e-Science
‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key
areas of science, and the next generation of
infrastructure that will enable it.’
John Taylor
Director General of Research Councils
Office of Science and Technology
 Purpose of e-Science initiative is to allow
scientists to do faster, different, better research
Licklider’s Vision of the Grid
“Lick had this concept of the intergalactic network
which he believed was everybody could use
computers anywhere and get at data anywhere in
the world. He didn’t envision the number of
computers we have today by any means, but he
had the same concept – all of the stuff linked
together throughout the world, that you can use a
remote computer, get data from a remote
computer, or use lots of computers in your job.
The vision was really Lick’s originally.”
Larry Roberts – Principal Architect of the ARPANET
The Integrative Biology Project
• £2.3M Project involving the University of Oxford
(and others) in the UK and the University of
Auckland in New Zealand
• Modelling electrical behaviour of heart cells
developed by Denis Noble’s team in Oxford
• Couple with mechanical model of beating heart
developed in Auckland
 Information on influence of genetic defects on
electrocardiograms
Some thoughts from a UK Perspective
• eInfrastructure must support genuine needs of
users/applications
• To support ‘routine’ collaboration between
institutions in different countries need set of
robust middleware services and agreed‘policies’
• Pan-European Authentication and Authorization
services but not so clear about Accounting
• Need to work with NRENS CERTs about
security implications of middleware services
CERN's Users in the World
Europe:
267 institutes, 4603
users
Elsewhere: 208 institutes, 1632
Powering the Virtual
Universe
http://www.astrogrid.ac.uk
(Edinburgh, Belfast, Cambridge,
Leicester, London, Manchester, RAL)
Multi-wavelength showing the jet in M87: from top to
bottom – Chandra X-ray, HST optical, Gemini mid-IR,
VLA radio. AstroGrid will provide advanced, Grid based,
federation and data mining tools to facilitate better and
faster scientific output.
Picture credits: “NASA / Chandra X-ray Observatory /
Herman Marshall (MIT)”, “NASA/HST/Eric Perlman
(UMBC), “Gemini Observatory/OSCIR”, “VLA/NSF/Eric
Perlman (UMBC)/Fang Zhou, Biretta (STScI)/F Owen
(NRA)”
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Printed: 22/05/2017
Purpose of EU eInfrastructure?
• Some clear sets of users with their own
resources who wish to collaborate
– Particle physicists, Astronomers
• Probably several other important user
communities
– Healthcare, Climate/EO, ….
• Show the way for Inter-Enterprise
collaboration for industry
– Greek Presidency ERIA
eInfrastructure
Generic
services
Group A
Connect
Provide
Exchange
Common Fabric
Resources
Private
Resources
Group B
Private
Resources
Purpose of eIRG?
• Understand problems and barriers that make
intra-EU research collaborations difficult
• Formulate guidelines/policies for EU
collaboration with the international
community
• Bring together national best practice with
EU projects and initiatives
• Must work closely with other relevant
bodies such as the NRENs and ESFRI