NERC E-Science Centre

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NERC e-Science MeetingMalcolm AtkinsonDirector& e-Science EnvoyUK National e-Science Centre & e-Science Institutewww.nesc.ac.uk26th April 2006: 

NERC e-Science Meeting Malcolm Atkinson Director andamp; e-Science Envoy UK National e-Science Centre andamp; e-Science Institute www.nesc.ac.uk 26th April 2006

Overview: 

Overview Past Present Future Challenges Behaviours Commitment

What is e-Science?: 

What is e-Science? Goal: to enable better research in all disciplines Method: Invention and exploitation of advanced computational methods to generate, curate and analyse research data From experiments, observations and simulations Quality management, preservation and reliable evidence to develop and explore models and simulations Computation and data at extreme scales Trustworthy, economic, timely and relevant results to enable dynamic distributed virtual organisations Facilitating collaboration with information and resource sharing Security, reliability, accountability, manageability and agility

What is e-Infrastructure – Political view: 

What is e-Infrastructure – Political view A shared resource That enables science, research, engineering, medicine, industry, … It will improve UK / European / … productivity Lisbon Accord 2000 E-Science Vision SR2000 – John Taylor Commitment by UK government Sections 2.23-2.25 Always there c.f. telephones, transport, power

UK e-Science Budget (2001-2006): 

Staff costs - Grid Resources Computers andamp; Network funded separately UK e-Science Budget (2001-2006) Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST) Total: £213M + £100M via JISC Slide from Steve Newhouse

The e-Science Centres: 

CeSC (Cambridge) e-Science Institute Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute The e-Science Centres EGEE Grid Operations Support Centre Nationaland#xB;Centre forand#xB;e-Socialand#xB;Science National Institute for Environmentaland#xB;e-Science NERCand#xB;e-Scienceand#xB;Centre

The e-Science Future: 

CeSC (Cambridge) e-Science Institute OMII-UK The e-Science Future EGEE-II Grid Operations Support Centre National Centre for e-Social Science National Institute for Environmental e-Science NERC e-Science Centre OMII-UK OMII-UK

The Future: 

The Future Inter-disciplinarity Sharing and finding a common core of facilities andamp; methods Recognition andamp; values How do we make things easy enough to use?