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Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now!

Research opportunities for e-Science in the UK commercial and public sectors Tuesday, September 9 th 2008. Accelerating business innovation; a Technology Strategy Board programme. Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now!. GCN in one slide.

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Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now!

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  1. Research opportunities for e-Science in the UK commercial and public sectorsTuesday, September 9th 2008 Accelerating business innovation; a Technology Strategy Board programme Dave Berry Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now! www.gridcomputingnow.org

  2. GCN in one slide • Grid Computing Now! champions advanced IT techniques to UK plc. • Web platform; industry news; webinars; user case studies; active community and regional programmes. • Led by Intellect in collaboration with the National e-Science Centre and CNR Ltd. • Project launched by the DTI in February 2005 for 3 years. • Now operated by the Technology Strategy Board, sponsored by DIUS. • Loose definition of Grid, including Virtualisation, Software as a Service, Service Orientation, Cloud Computing. www.gridcomputingnow.org

  3. Integrated Products Manufacturing Bioscience for Business Aerospace and Defence Chemistry Innovation UK Displays & Lighting Sensors & Instrumentation Resource Efficiency Cyber Security bioProcessUK Electronics Materials Photonics Food Processing Nanotechnology Healthcare Technologies Modern Built Environment Industrial Mathematics Intelligent Transport Systems Digital Communications Location & Timing Grid Computing Now! Creative Industries Environmental Low Carbon & Fuel Cell Technologies Knowledge Transfer Networks www.gridcomputingnow.org

  4. Grid Computing Now! User Communities 2008 • Green IT • Software Licensing • Transport • Health • R&D www.gridcomputingnow.org

  5. GCN Webinars • Energy efficient data centres: experience, measurement and models • Wednesday, May 7, 2008 • Powering Your Business with Cloud Computing • Tuesday October 14th 2008, 1.30pm • Grids and Health Computing • November www.gridcomputingnow.org

  6. Grid Computing Now! Competition 2008:Grid Computing for a greener planet • Supporters: • BCS, LTN, Intellect, The 451 Group, Microsoft, Memset, OeRC, NeSC, TSB & WWF • Marketing Channels: • Press releases, Facebook Group, Twitter, Blogs, Websites, Newsletters, HTML invitations • Timetable • Initial Submissions: October 17, 2008 • Stage 2 Deadline: November 14, 2008 • Stage 3 Deadline: December 1, 2008 • See the web site for details www.gridcomputingnow.org

  7. Aims and outcomes of today’s workshop • “We aim to connect interested parties and catalyse innovative solutions” • We may organise further meetings of interested parties to investigate opportunities in more detail • We can support interest groups via the collaborative tools available with our web site www.gridcomputingnow.org

  8. Today’s speakers • Mark Ferrar, IT infrastructure in the NHS in England • Liam Newcombe,Modelling Data Centre Energy Efficiency and Cost • Alex Efimov, Open source grid computing in the finance industry • Chris Greenwell, Greening the oil-industry: e-Science and oil & gas well drilling chemistry • Panel: Opportunities for innovative research and exploitation www.gridcomputingnow.org

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