UK e-Science Booth at SC04

John Gordon

30th November 2004

SC

• SuperComputing started in 1988– In recent years more emphasis on Distributed

Computing and Technology than pure Supercomputing

• The name is now SC2004 rather than SuperComputing– The High Performance, Networking, and Storage

Conference

• UK e-Science programme has had a booth since 2002

• SC2004 was held in Pittsburgh, 6-10 November

SC2004

• Booth

• Programme

• Feedback

• Next year?

The Booth

• CCLRC-RAL took responsibility for the infrastructure

• A UK company, SmartPartners, arranged the shipping and construction of the stand.

• RAL managed the networking, computers, display, and audio-visual

• Mainly funded by EPSRC– Some equipment loaned by RAL and others

(eg ClusterVision)

The Programme

• Dave Berry (NeSC) organised the booth content

• 12 demonstrations with 1 or 2 flat screens

• Talks in the booth’s theatre

Demonstrations

• Public call went out early summer – Aimed at e-Science Centres and RCs– Calling for projects to propose demonstrations

• Review panel looked at the projects’ presence at AHM and proposed a couple more

• Selection made early September

• Funded two people per demo

GridPP: The UK's contribution to a worldwide Grid for particle physics: Dave Colling, Imperial College Roger Jones, Lancaster University

AstroGrid: Creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory: Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge

EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data Bob Bentley, University College London Isabelle Scholl, International Space University

The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute: Grid Computing Made Simple

Steven Newhouse, OMII Yvonne Howard, OMII

A Market for Computational Services: Negotiation, Charging and Brokering

William Lee, Imperial College John Ainsworth University of Manchester

CamMon: A Visual Demonstration of jGMA and Ubiquitous Resource Monitoring across the Grid

Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth

Resource-Aware Visualization Environment Ian Grimstead, Cardiff University Ieuan Nicholas, Welsh e-Science Centre

DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft engines

Tom Jackson, University of York Mark Jessop, University of York

GEWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration within the aerospace research sector

Alan Davies, BAe Systems Kevin Dyke, University of Manchester

eDiaMoND: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for breast cancer screening

Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford

BRIDGES: A Grid Enabled Bioinformatics Workbench for Functional Genomics

Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow

Grid-enabled Application Visualisation Services Lakshmi Sastry, CCLRC Ronald F. Fowler, CCLRC

Also an informal demonstration of GeoDise: Andrew Price, University of Southampton

Demonstrations

Talks

• A programme of 25 talks was organised for the booth

• Speakers drawn from demonstrators, other attendees, and via Access Grid from the UK.

• All broadcast on AG

TalksWednesday 10th November, 10:00 - 18:00 10.15 The eMinerals integrated compute and data grid for

molecular simulations (Martin Dove, National Centre for Environmental e-Science)

11.15 Portals for integrated services for e-Research and Learning (Rob Allan, CCLRC)

12.15 An extensible framework for data integration (Malcolm Atkinson, National e-Science Centre)

13.15 A black hole census: example science from AstroGrid, the UK’s Virtual Observatory (Nicholas Walton, University of Cambridge)

14.00 Overview of UK e-Science (Tony Hey, UK e-Science Core Programme)

14.45 Understanding the nature of matter: Using Grids to compute on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke, National e-Science Centre)

15.30 GEODISE: Grid-enabled toolkits for the engineer (Andrew Price, University of Southampton)

16.15 Integrative Biology: Using Grid technology to tackle two Grand Challenges - the in-silico modelling of heart failure and of cancer (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)

17.15 OGSA-DAI: Data access and integration on the Grid (Amy Krause, EPCC)

Thursday 11th November, 10:00 - 16:00 10.15 e-Protein: A distributed pipeline for structure-based proteome

annotation using Grid technology (Mike Sternberg, Imperial College London)

11.15 The Semantic Grid (David de Roure, University of Southampton)

12.15 GENIE: Tuning Earth system model components using a Grid-enabled data management system (Andrew Price, University of Southampton)

13.15 AstroGrid: New technology creating the UK’s Virtual Observatory (Guy Rixon, University of Cambridge)

14.15 eDiaMoND: Grid technology and ‘joined up’ healthcare for breast cancer screening (Sharon Lloyd, University of Oxford)

UK e-Science Talks at SC2004 [All talks will be broadcast by Access Grid]

Monday 8th November, 19:00 - 21:00 (Gala Opening) 19.30 An Introduction to UK e-Science (Anne Trefethen, UK e-

Science Core Programme) 20.00 The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute: Grid

Computing Made Simple (Steven Newhouse, OMII) 20.30 EGEE: Building a pan-European production Grid (Malcolm

Atkinson, National e-Science Centre)

Tuesday 9th November, 10:00 - 18:00 10.15 The Semantic Mouse Atlas (Richard Baldock, Human Genetics

Unit) 11.15 RealityGrid: Real science on computational grids (Peter

Coveney, University College London) 12.15 The Semantic Grid (David De Roure, University of

Southampton) 13.15 Understanding the nature of matter: Using Grids to compute

on the smallest and largest scales in the Universe (Peter Clarke, National e-Science Centre)

14.15 GeWiTTS (Grid Enabled Wind Tunnel Test Service): Grid integration within the aerospace research sector (Alan Davies, BAe Systems)

15.15 DAME: Using distributed data mining for remote monitoring of aircraft engines (Tom Jackson, University of York)

16.15 EGSO: A Virtual Observatory for solar and heliospheric data (Bob Bentley, UCL)

17.15 Welcome to the real world: Industry and the Grid (Paul Graham, EPCC)

Pictures

• Visitors to the booth had their name badges swiped to record their details

• 902 recorded– Although the card reader was broken for a

while.– Estimate 1000

• cf 353 at Phoenix 2003

Visitors to UK Booth by Country

Afghanistan Australia Austria Brazil Canada China Czech Republic Denmark France Germany Greece Hungary India Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Netherlands Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Singapore South Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom USA

SC2003UKjapanaustraliakoreanorwaynetherlandschinasingaporehungarytwaiwanspainaustriacanadagermanyfranceitalysouth koreaturkeynew zealandUSA

Visitors

Other Observations

• Many other countries with booths– Countries – Netherlands, Hungary, Austria– Organisations – France, Japan, Taiwan,

Germany, Spain, Brazil, Australia – UK – Daresbury, EPCC, Manchester

• eIRG recommended that FP6 Grid Programmes be represented in 2005

Feedback

• The overall feeling was that the stand was a success and that attending had been beneficial.

• The demonstrators had all made good contacts and were grateful for the opportunity to demonstrate their work.

• They also appreciated the chance to learn what is being done elsewhere by visiting the other stands at the show.

• Most people said they would like to attend again

Suggestions

• Identifiable Logo/Banner– Union Flag?

• Open up demo area– Poster areas hide the demos

• Bigger displays– Plasma screen will reduce poster space

• More visual talks• More guides to lead visitors to demos• Stricter management of demos

Next Year

• This year’s grant covers storage of the booth– Could be used elsewhere

• Booked 40’x40’ booth for Seattle 12-18 Nov– No cost yet– Shared boundary with AIST

• SC Global– Collaborative working over AG

• StorCloud– Space to demo high-bandwidth