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National e-Science CentreGlasgow e-Science Hub
Opening: Remarks
NeSC’s Role
Prof. Malcolm AtkinsonDirector
www.nesc.ac.uk
17th September 2003
Global Drivers of e-Science
CollaborationData DelugeDigital Technology
UbiquityCost reductionPerformance increase
Consequential InvestmentUK e-Science £240 million + 80 companiesEU e-InfrastructureUSA cyberinfrastructure…
Three-way Alliance
Computing ScienceSystems, Notations &
Formal Foundation→ Process & Trust
TheoryModels & Simulations
→Shared Data
Experiment &Advanced Data
Collection→
Shared Data
Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabledConsortia, Cultures & Societies
Requires Much Engineering, Much Innovation
Changes Culture, New Mores, New Behaviours
New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards
Global Knowledge CommunitiesOften Driven by Data: E.g.,
Astronomy
No. & sizes of data sets as of mid-2002, grouped by wavelength• 12 waveband coverage of large areas of the sky• Total about 200 TB data• Doubling every 12 months• Largest catalogues near 1B objects
Data and images courtesy Alex Szalay, John Hopkins
Foundation for e-Science
sensor nets
Shared data archives
computers
software
colleagues
instruments
Grid
e-Science methodologies will rapidly transform science, engineering, medicine and business
driven by exponential growth (×1000/decade) enabling a whole-system approach
Diagram derived fromIan Foster’s slide
Cambridge
Newcastle
Edinburgh
Oxford
Glasgow
Manchester
Cardiff
Southampton
London
Belfast
Daresbury Lab
RALHinxton
NeSC in the UKNational
e-ScienceCentre HPC(x)
Directors’ ForumHelped build a
communityEngineering Task ForceGrid Support CentreArchitecture Task Force
UK Adoption of OGSAOGSA Grid MarketWorkflow Management
Database Task ForceOGSA-DAIGGF DAIS-WG
GridNet e-Storm
Globus Alliance
www.nesc.ac.uk
Current Activities
e-Science InstituteVisitor ProgrammeEvent ProgrammeWeb Site
NeSCCore Programme & Research ProjectsSetting up training team: eSCP+PPARC+EGEEBidding
Digital Curation Centre Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute NextGrid Collaboration with MRC, BBSRC, … bids
Data Access, Integration,Publication, Annotation and
Curation
LinguisticCorpora
ArkDB
Advancede-Science
edikt
Mouse Atlas
Repositories
OGSA-DAI& DAIT
DCCProposal
ODD-Genes
Mobile Code
ScientificData
CS Research
GTI
BRIDGES
SuperCOSMOS
AstroGrid
ScotGridGridPP
QCDGrid
Applications
PGPGrid
FirstDIG
MS.NET Grid
NeSC MissionTo stimulate and sustain the development of e-Science in the UK, to contribute significantly to its international development and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry. To identify and support e-Science projects within and between institutions in Scotland, and to provide the appropriate technical infrastructure and support in order to ensure rapid uptake of e-Science techniques by Scottish scientists. To encourage the interaction and bi-directional flow of ideas between computing science research and e-Science applicationsTo develop advances in scientific data curation and analysis and to be a primary source of top quality systems and repositories that enable management, sharing and best use.
Goal
To have influenceWhat are researchers doing because of us?What are developers doing because of us?What is industry doing because of us?What are educators doing because of us?What are governments doing because of us?
Thank You
To the University of Glasgow
for its substantial investment in and commitment to e-Science