• Andy Turner's White Rose Grid e-Science Centre Workshop: e-Science Challenges and Perspectives 2008-03-27 Web Page

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  • Introduction

    • For information about the White Rose Grid e-Science Centre Workshop: e-Science Challenges and Perspectives, University of Leeds, 2008-03-27.
    • Contents:
      • People
      • Documentation
      • Notes
      • Action List
      • References
      • Validation and Metadata

  • People

    • Attendees
      • Peter Ainsworth
      • Junaid Arshad
      • Jim Austin
      • Ken Brodlie
      • Peter Dew
      • David Duke
      • Karim Djemame
      • Peter Jimack
      • Tom Jackson
      • Imran Jokhio
      • Shiv Kaushal
      • Chris Martin
      • Mike Meredith
      • Judy Redfearn
      • Joanna Schmidt
      • Paul Townend
      • Andy Turner
      • Jie Xu
      • Dacheng Zhang
      • ...
    • Others
      • Richard Milton

  • Documentation

    • The White Rose Grid e-Science Centre 2008 Brochure (Draft)
    • programme

  • Notes

    • Going through the programme:
      • 10:15 arrival
      • Session 1 Chair: Julian White, CEO of White Rose
        • 10:30 Welcome
          • Jie Xu, Director of the WRG e-Science Centre
        • 10:35 WRG e-Science Centre’s Highlights
          • Jie Xu, University of Leeds
        • 10:50 Risk Management in Grids
          • Karim Djemame, University of Leeds
          • AssessGrid
          • Risks in Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
          • Reliability of:
            • NGS
            • grid5000
            • EGEE
          • There is no broker role for helping users choose which grid resources to use.
            • The work at Leeds is to develop a prototype for this.
          • Outsourcing
          • Risk aware negotiations
          • Confidence service
          • Moving towards a way of job juggling so that more trusted (higher security) resources can be used by those jobs requiring it.
        • 11:10 SeMeep Applied to the Chemical Kinematics Community
          • Chris Martin, University of Leeds
          • Revised title: Provenance for Atmospheric Chemistry Models
          • Development of an Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN)
          • All done with RDF :-) Semantic Web work (-:
          • There is a difficult balance to recording provence and time pressure for other things.
          • This is general problem with all metadata creation often the producer of the data is not the benefitter.
          • References
            • PrIMe: a software engineering methodology for developing provenance-aware applications
            • http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/store/files/Users/jgf/leeds%20proposal.txt
            • http://chemtools.chem.soton.ac.uk/store/files/Users/jgf/Revised%20Proposal%20Overviewv6a%20nick.doc
            • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_lab_notebook
            • http://www.connotea.org/tag/Electronic%20Laboratory%20Notebooks
          • Working with PASOA Preserve Southampton Simon Miles, Paul Groth?
            • No, working with others...
        • 11:30 Sharing Digital Resources over the Internet
          • Peter Ainsworth, University of Sheffield
            • Sir Gareth Roberts
            • Andrew Precott
              • http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Prescott/prescott.html
              • http://www.gurdjieff-books.net/authors/ap/ap-bio.php
              • http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/people/staff/ap.html
            • Andrew pushed Peter into digitising manuscripts and from there he entered into eScience :-)
            • Developed a viewer for their massive images in flash
            • Mike Meredith
            • Virtual Vellum
              • New viewer based on JPEG2000 and SRB
              • Open source and open access
              • This is very exciting :-)
            • Working on Pegasus
              • So that a collaboratory can discusss a manuscript with people from all over the world.
            • Exavier Frescais(sp?)
              • working on ontologies
              • spinning out the viewer into a new domain
            • Treated to demos :-)
            • Software can be run locally or distributed.
            • In access grid mode it works a bit more like second life than VNC
            • Using a data grid for various reasons
              • political
              • self replicating good for backup
              • storage
            • Kiosque
              • Leeds Royal Armories
              • Chronicles of Froissart
            • 3D v 2D
            • TRIBAL
            • WUN Grid
          • References
            • Virtual Vellum
            • http://www.wrgrid.org.uk/leaflets/WRG_VirtualVellum_Sept2007.pdf
            • GoogleMapImageCutter
            • http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/1994/02/msg00109.html
            • http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/allc-ach96/Panels/Prescott/prescott.html
            • http://www.gurdjieff-books.net/authors/ap/ap-bio.php
            • http://www.shef.ac.uk/hri/people/staff/ap.html
        • 11:50 NGS Enabling e-Research
          • Joanna Schmidt, University of Leeds
          • Slight change of title to "NGS Empowering eResearch"
          • Why is WRG not an affiliate partner in NGS?
      • Judy Redfearn from JISC said a few words :-)
      • lunch
        • Very good food (a treat thanks to Joanna) and company :-)
        • Paul agreed to put a BSD license on his GLS Client software :-)
          • Junaid and I can now make this more available and implement our plans for further development :-)
      • Session 2 Chair: Tom Jackson, University of York
        • 13:30 Polytypic Visualization: Taking Data as You Find it
          • David Duke, University of Leeds
          • Trac Lazy Polytypic Functional Visualisation
        • 13:50 Using e-Science to get Business Value from Large Complex Data
          • Jim Austin, University of York
          • Because of very cheep disc storage organisations again collecting very large amounts of data with little idea about how to analyse it.
          • Signal data explorer
          • Do not move the data, move the processing to the data
        • 14:10 Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science Through the Use of Service-Orientation and Web 2.0 Technologies
          • Paul Townend, University of Leeds
          • :-)
        • 14:30 Discussion on the Future e-Science Developments
          • I wanted to raise Mike Merredith's awareness of the CASA image work, unfortunately Mike had left, but I will try to send him an email.
            • Although they don't do the same thing, GoogleMapsImageCutter and Virtual Vellum are similar. I think Virtual Vellum is nice as it is open source and based on JPEG2000
            • Anyway, perhaps the developers should be more aware of each others work...
          • Portals
            • EZA(sp?) is good for application level integration
            • Gridsphere is good for grid interfacing
          • Licensing
          • NGS and WRG
            • General support for WRG becoming an affiliate partner of NGS :-)
              • We don't want to be left out!
        • 15:00 close
          • Thank you :-)

  • Action List

    • Andy Turner
      • Introduce Richard Milton and Mike Merredith...

  • References

    • Distributed Systems and Services Group
    • Collaborative Architecture and Performance Group
    • http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/research/themes/utc/broaden.html

  • Validation and Metadata

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