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The National e-Science Centre. eSI in Edinburgh. NeSC Roles. National: help coordinate and lead the UK e-Science Programme Community building activities, Skill building through training events & support centre Regional: support & outreach International: Help establish the UK’s role
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NeSC Roles • National: help coordinate and lead the UK e-Science Programme • Community building activities, • Skill building through training events & support centre • Regional: support & outreach • International: Help establish the UK’s role • International meetings, standardisation work & presentations • Run the e-Science Institute • Knowledge building through workshops and conferences • Research visitors and events • Undertake R&D projects • To deliver reliable middleware • To engage industry • To stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology and methods • Emphasis on scientific data management
Events at NeSC • Past: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/past.html(All presentations can be found here) • Monday,June 13,2005: Meeting for Core e-Science Programme Open Call/IRC projects • Monday,June 13,2005: Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid Service • Monday,June 6,2005: Designing for Usability in eScience: A suite of tutorials for Researchers Interested in Improving Usableness and Usefulness of their eScience tools • Current: TODAY! • Thu 16 Jun - Fri 17 Jun CampusGrid meetinghttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/556/ • Future: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html(Registration can be found here) • Mon 20 Jun - Tue 21 Jun: Networks for non-Networkers 2 (NFNN2) • Wed 22 Jun - Thu 23 Jun: Grid Performance Workshop 2005 • Thu 30 Jun - Fri 1, Jul: BiodiversityWorld GRID workshop • ….
NeSC Training team • Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and internationally • Funded by: e-Science Core Programme, PPARC, GOSC, and EU grants within EGEE • Team comprises: • 4 trainers • 2.5 developers • 0.5 admin support • 0.5 system support • 0.5 dissemination • Induction, Application Developer, sys. admin • EGEE, NGS, OMII,… • WSDL, WSRF, GT4, UML • Requests invited!!! NGS Induction Course At NeSC