PANEL SESSION
In an industry first S3 brings together representatives from the Sanger Institute, EMBL-EBI, University of Dundee, London Research Institute Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute Cancer Research UK to share their thoughts and opinions about the implications associated with managing ever growing scientific research data.
Topics such as Parallel Computing, Green Computing, Cloud Computing and Tiered Data Management will be high on the agenda.
The panellists will be open to audience questions and interaction to ensure relevance, value and participation for everyone attending the day.
Moderated By:
Mick Powell
Account Manager, S3
Having worked in IT for a number of Investment Banks in the City for over 20 years, Mick Powell moved from IT Management into Storage Sales in April 2001 firstly as a Technical Account Manager and for the last 5 years, as an Account Manager with S3. Mick has been specializing in working with the Life Sciences industry over the last 5 years.
Panellists:
Peter Maccallum BSc PhD
Head of IT & Scientific Computing
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute
Peter Maccallum is the Head of IT and Scientific Computing at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, where his department has developed storage systems for high performance computing, very large databases, scalable network storage and archival for use by researchers. Prior to forming the department, Dr Maccallum has worked at EPCC, the EBI, Cambridge University and in the pharmaceutical industry on the application of distributed computing and HPC in chemistry and the life sciences.
Jonathan Monk
Head of Life Sciences Computing
College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Jonathan Monk has a background in physics and since completing a PhD in Remote Sensing has worked on large scale computing projects. He is currently employed at the College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee and manages an integrated portfolio of storage, compute, network, database and desktop systems.
Pete Jokinen
Head of IT
EMBL-EBI
Pete Jokinen completed his Master of Computer Science at the University of Helsinki, he continued his IT career with posts in programming, research and as a senior analyst. Pete then moved to the EBI in 1996 and over a short period of time became the main architect for EBI's IT infrastructure as well as the head of the "Systems and Networking" team. The team is responsible for EBI's servers, storage, networking and desktop machines. They also provide user support and maintain the Campus wide area network connection. A very important part of Pete Jokinen's work is to architect large scale storage, server and network infrastructures and plan for the long term future.
At present the EBI has almost eight Petabytes of centralized storage and approximately 9000 CPU cores.
Phil Butcher
Head of IT
Sanger Institute
Phil Butcher joined the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in 1993 coming from a commercial IT background and has been responsible for growing the institute’s IT ever since in support of ground breaking genomic research. Sanger Institute’s IT infrastructure has grown from a few servers with gigabytes of data in the early days to thousands of cores of computational capacity with well over 10 Petabytes (10,000 Terabytes) of useable disk storage space today.
While the Human Genome project delivered the sequence of one individual over a ten year period, the latest DNA sequencing technologies can now deliver many genomes worth of data in days. Over the next five years the Sanger Institute’s scientific projects aim to produce in the order of 100,000 genomes worth of data from which a greater understanding of common illnesses and disease will be derived. It is estimated that they will have acquired in the order of 35-40 Petabytes of data in that time and many tens of thousands of cores of computational capacity. Regardless of the scale – like all other IT installations, the Sanger Institute looks for the right solutions and continue to learn something new every day….
Lex Holt
Deputy Head of IT
London Research Institute, Cancer Research UK
About 550 scientists work at CRUK's London Research Institute, relying on IT support for a wide range of activities, including light & electron microscopy, next-gen sequencing, high-throughput screening, etc. Lex Holt moved to the London Research Institute in 2009, from a background in computer science, large scale system configuration, and web systems management. He has worked at the University of Edinburgh, the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and the Natural History Museum.
Details
WHEN:
Wednesday 26th January 2011
WHERE:
University Arms, Regent Street, Cambridge, CB2 1AD
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