edikt Technical Workshop
Date: Tuesday October 21st 2008 Start: 13:30 Finish: 17:00 Venue: Rm 112, Darwin Building, Kings Buildings
Purpose of workshop
The purpose of the meeting is for edikt2 participants to share information about the technical aspects of the various activities being funded through edikt2. The meeting is also open to other interested parties around the University and beyond.
The edikt (eScience Data, Information and Knowledge Transformation) project has been running since May 2002 and is using computational science to extract knowledge from vast datasets and simulation models. edikt is funded by the Scottish Funding Council.
For more information on edikt, see the project web site at http://www.edikt.org.
Agenda
1330 Welcome
Mr Terry Sloan (EPCC)
1340 FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation
Emergency Response Support
Dr Liangxiu Han (NeSC)
1420 Microarray data management and analysis
Mr Rob Kitchen (NeSC)
1445 COFFEE
1515 UKQCD software for lattice QCD
Dr Chris Maynard (EPCC)
1545 GridPP and the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility or
How a general purpose cluster bore the weight of Atlas on its shoulders
Dr Orlando Richards (IS) and Dr Mike Baker (NeSC)
1615 Disucssion
1700 Close
Abstracts and slides
FireGrid: An e-Infrastructure for Next-Generation Emergency Response Support
Dr Liangxiu Han (NeSC)
The FireGrid project attempts to harness the potential of advanced forms of computation to support the response to large-scale emergencies (with an initial focus on the response to fires in the built environment). Computational models of physical phenomena are deployed on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources to interpret live sensor data from an emergency in real-time – or, in the case of predictive models, faster-than-real-time. These interpretations are accessed over a Grid from an agent-based system, of which the human responders form an integral part. With particular emphasis on the combination of Grid and multi- agent technologies, this paper describes and discusses the FireGrid architecture that has been prototyped and demonstrated with a number of small-scale applications, involving data collected from real fires.
Microarray data management and analysis
Mr Rob Kitchen (NeSC)
UKQCD software for lattice QCD
Dr Chris Maynard (EPCC)
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the quantum field theory of the strong nuclear interaction and it explains how quarks and gluons are bound together to make more familiar objects such as the proton or neutron, which form the nuclei of atoms. UKQCD is a collaboration of eight UK universities which have come together to obtain and pool sufficient resources, both computational and manpower, to perform lattice QCD calculations. This paper details how UKQCD uses and develops this software, how performance critical kernels for diverse architectures such as QCDOC, BlueGene and XT4 developed and employed and how UKQCD collaborates both internally and externally, with for instance, the US SciDAC Lattice QCD community.