The New Technologies: Can CRISs...
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
Computing• What does this mean for CRISs?• Conclusion
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
Computing• What does this mean for CRISs?• Conclusion
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CCLRC-RAL SiteISIS
InstrumentationEngineeringLasers
Space ScienceParticle Physics
Administration
Microstructures
Spin-outs
IT
ISIS TS2 site
Diamond site
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CCLRC-DL Site
Synchrotron Radiation
IT
Ex NSF now new facilities
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SSTD: Earth• Gulf Stream• Carolina to New York
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SSTD: Mars• 23 January 2004
This picture was taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, in colour and 3D, in orbit 18 on 15 January 2004 from a height of 273 km. The location is east of the Hellas basin at 41° South and 101° East. The area is 100 km across, with a resolution of 12 m per pixel, and shows a channel (Reull Vallis) once formed by flowing water. The landscape is seen in a vertical view, North is at the top.
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Diamond: Synchrotron Radiation
Bird's eye view of the synchrotron building (Courtesy of JacobsGIBB Ltd /Crispin Wride Architectural Design Studio)
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Computing
• CCLRC runs HPC(X)• 5th fastest computer• IBM Power series• Used by UK R&D
Community
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VR: EISCAT Control
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Background : Conclusion• Large Scientific Facility Laboratory
– Hundreds of thousands of users• Need for integrated environment (at the lab and
worldwide available) for:– Strategic planning– Management of science, engineering and technology– Scientific data collection– Scientific data analysis– Generation of products, patents, publications
• Technology transfer and innovation• Increasing human knowledge
• need a sophisticated CRIS
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The ‘nightmare’
ARTICLEAuthor(s)OrgUnit(s)Abstract
KeywordsHypothesisReferences
CRIS
OAI REPOSITORY
DistributedOAI
REPOSITORYScientific Data
& Software
Project
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The ‘dream’
ARTICLEAuthor(s)OrgUnit(s)Abstract
KeywordsHypothesisReferences
CRIS
INSTITUTIONAL OAI REPOSITORY
DistributedOAI
REPOSITORYScientific Data
& Software
Project
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PROJECTORGUNIT
Skills
CV
GeneralFacility
ParticularEquipment
ContactResults
PublicationResultsPatentResultsProduct
Service
FundingProgramme
Event
Classification Prize/Award
PERSON
The CERIF DataModel
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
Computing• What does this mean for CRISs?• Conclusion
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The Proposition• Historically we have followed the process:
– Requirements, Design, Development and Implementation then Maintenance
• There are new technologies– New business opportunities e.g.
Amazon.com• Perhaps CRISs should develop as new
businesses using the new technologies
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The New Technologies• The relevant new technologies are:• GRIDs
– Autonomic computing• User requests : system responds• Data, information, knowledge, computing,
detectors for more data…– Metadata, agents, brokers
• Ambient computing– Pervasive, continuous, personalised
connectivity
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
Computing• What does this mean for CRISs?• Conclusion
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In the beginning…..• In 1999 the UK Research Councils (which fund
university R&D) were undergoing their Strategic Review Exercise for funding beyond 2000– Grand challenge science projects
• The DGRC (John Taylor) unhappy that plans– had too little IT– the IT proposed was incoherent
• So he asked CCLRC CEO (Bert Westwood) to have someone generate an IT plan
• And Bert asked me
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The GRIDs Vision• The end-user interacts with the GRIDs
environment to clarify the request – using a ‘device’ or ‘appliance’
• The GRIDs environment proposes a ‘deal’ to satisfy the request– which may or may not involve money
• The user accepts or rejects the ‘deal’
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The GRIDs Vision• The GRIDs environment is such that
– A user can interact with it intelligently – It provides transparent access to
• data, information, knowledge• computation• instrumentation / detectors
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The GRIDs Architecture
Knowledge Layer
Information Layer
Computation / Data Layer
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The Computation/Data Grid• a computation / data grid
– raw computing power – associated data stores – network-connected – both floating point computation and data-
handling with logic;
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The Information Grid• an information grid superimposed
– connecting together the major information sources
– interfaces : homogeneous access to heterogeneous distributed information
– sophisticated statistical analysis / reduction techniques for floating point numbers, textual information and multimedia information
– special facilities for images – all with associated visualisation and VR
(virtual reality) facilities.
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The Knowledge Grid• a knowledge grid superimposed
– utilising KDD (knowledge discovery in database) technology of which a well-known component is ‘data mining’.
– support intelligent assists to decision makers (from control room to strategic thinkers)
– provide interpretational semantics on the information.
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In addition…...• Each grid will have suitable security
controls– information availability – prevention of unauthorised access
• appropriate to the source and theaccessor.
• Similarly rights access (e.g. copyright, IPR) will be controlled.
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The GRIDs Architecture
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The Big Idea:What it Provides
UserAppliance
‘The Wall’
The GRIDsEnvironment
Plug-in
PCPalmtopMobile..
Personal CommunicationPersonal Shopping
Hobbies, family activitiesBusiness Communication
Business DealingBusiness Information
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A POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE
U:USER
S:SOURCE R:RESOURCE
Rm:ResourceMetadata
Ra:ResourceAgent
Ua:User Agent
Um:User Metadata
Sm:SourceMetadata
Sa:Source Agent brokers
The GRIDs Environment
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A POSSIBLE ARCHITECTURE: Components
• Metadata
• Representative Agents
• Brokers
• User• Source• Resource
• User• Source• Resource
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Classification of Metadata
data (document)
SCHEMA NAVIGATIONAL ASSOCIATIVE
how to
get it
constrain it
view to users
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Representative Agents• Represent the entities {U, S, R}
continuously and actively within theGRIDs environment
• With metadata represent the entity to others represented by their agents
• Act on behalf of the entity
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Brokers• (a) authentication,
• (b) clarification / precision of request,
• (c) resource discovery (information and if necessary compute power, visualisation facilities etc)
• (d) authorisation (rights),
• (e) offer and pricing,
• (f) closure of deal (U accepts (e))
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Brokers (continued)
• (g) fusion of responses,
• (h) application of any transformation / analysis / simulation / visualisation processes,
• (i) presentation formatting (for variously ableddevices and people using various resources),
• (j) network routing, and (k) scheduling of physical resource access / usage
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Monitoring Brokers• and others will monitor
– quality of service,
– utilisation of resource collections
– specialist physical resources
– etc etc.
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GRIDs: The Challenges• Ease of Use
– Metadata, agents, brokers– Expressive and representative languages
• Trust, security and privacy• Performance
– Mobile code– Ease of optimisation, management– Networking
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
Computing• What does this mean for CRISs?• Conclusion
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Ambient, pervasive, mobile• The user appliance may well be mobile
and requires pervasive connectivity• It may have interesting capabilities such
as attachment of detectors / instruments– Scientific research– paramedics, firefighters– Even ‘road warriors’
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Ambient Computing: The Solution: User
LAN
GSM / GPRS
handheld
laptop
Wired or WiFi
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Ambient Computing: The Solution• Access via some network means to ‘base
system’ and from there:• Access to services / servers
– Intranet• Office• Management information / decision support
– Extranet (via proxy servers / firewall)• General information e.g. for travel, financial
data, news, sport, entertainment
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Ambient Computing: The Challenges• Communications
– Volume (multimedia, sensors)– Security (and privacy – geolocation)
• Synchronisation• Customisation of interface
– Multi-mode, multimedia– Intelligent filtering
• Availability of required sources & resources to satisfy the request
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
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What does it mean for CRISs• Homogeneous access – heterogeneous
information• Access to computation as well as information• Knowledge processing – decision-making• Collection of new data - detectors• Integration with scientific datasets, publications
etc• Push as well as pull• Improved data input – knowledge-assisted
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The CRIS of the Future
PDA
laptop
Bluetooth GRIDs Environment
User Agent
User Metadata
Brokers
resourcemetadata resourcemetadatametadata resource
agent
metadata metadatametadata metadatametadata metadatametadata source agent
CooperativeWorking
Environment
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STRUCTURE• Background• The Proposition• The New Technologies: GRIDs• The New Technologies: Ambient
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Conclusion• We should build CRISs appropriate for the
‘new world’– GRIDs– Ambient computing
• To take advantage of the new business opportunities
• To integrate with the rest of the environment of the user
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Prof. Keith G JefferyDirector, Information Technology
Head, Business & Information Technology Department
CCLRC Rutherford Appleton [email protected]
http://www.bitd.clrc.ac.uk/