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National e-Science Centre Glasgow e-Science Hub Opening: Remarks NeSC’s Role

National e-Science Centre Glasgow e-Science Hub Opening: Remarks NeSC’s Role Prof. Malcolm Atkinson Director www.nesc.ac.uk 17 th September 2003. Global Drivers of e-Science. Collaboration Data Deluge Digital Technology Ubiquity Cost reduction Performance increase

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National e-Science Centre Glasgow e-Science Hub Opening: Remarks NeSC’s Role

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  1. National e-Science Centre Glasgow e-Science Hub Opening: Remarks NeSC’s Role Prof. Malcolm Atkinson Director www.nesc.ac.uk 17th September 2003

  2. Global Drivers of e-Science • Collaboration • Data Deluge • Digital Technology • Ubiquity • Cost reduction • Performance increase • Consequential Investment • UK e-Science £240 million + 80 companies • EU e-Infrastructure • USA cyberinfrastructure • …

  3. TheoryModels & Simulations→ Shared Data Experiment &Advanced Data Collection→Shared Data Requires Much Engineering, Much Innovation Computing ScienceSystems, Notations &Formal Foundation → Process & Trust Changes Culture, New Mores, New Behaviours Three-way Alliance Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabled Consortia, Cultures & Societies New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards

  4. 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

  5. computers software Grid instruments Shared data archives colleagues Foundation for e-Science • e-Science methodologies will rapidly transformscience, engineering, medicine and business • driven by exponential growth (×1000/decade) • enabling a whole-system approach sensor nets Diagram derived from Ian Foster’s slide

  6. Globus Alliance HPC(x) Directors’ Forum Helped build a community Engineering Task Force Grid Support Centre Architecture Task Force UK Adoption of OGSA OGSA Grid Market Workflow Management Database Task Force OGSA-DAI GGF DAIS-WG GridNet e-Storm NeSC in the UK Nationale-Science Centre Edinburgh Glasgow Newcastle Belfast Manchester Daresbury Lab Cambridge Oxford Hinxton RAL Cardiff London Southampton

  7. www.nesc.ac.uk

  8. Current Activities • e-Science Institute • Visitor Programme • Event Programme • Web Site • NeSC • Core Programme & Research Projects • Setting up training team: eSCP+PPARC+EGEE • Bidding • Digital Curation Centre • Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute • NextGrid • Collaboration with MRC, BBSRC, … bids

  9. Data Access, Integration,Publication, Annotation and Curation PGPGrid AstroGrid QCDGrid ODD-Genes FirstDIG ScotGrid GridPP BRIDGES OGSA-DAI & DAIT Applications MS.NET Grid edikt Super COSMOS Advanced e-Science GTI Repositories CS Research Mobile Code Mouse Atlas Scientific Data DCC Proposal ArkDB Linguistic Corpora

  10. NeSC Mission • To 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 applications • To 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.

  11. Goal • To have influence • What 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?

  12. Thank You To the University of Glasgow for its substantial investment in and commitment to e-Science

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