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Accelerating business innovation;a Technology Strategy Board programme

Research opportunities for e-Science in the UK commercial and public sectors

Tuesday, September 9th 2008

Dave Berry

Technology Lead, Grid Computing Now!




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.



Aerospace and Defence

bioProcessUK

Bioscience for Business

Chemistry Innovation

Cyber Security

Digital Communications

Electronics

Integrated Products Manufacturing

Environmental

Food Processing

Grid Computing Now!

Healthcare Technologies

Industrial MathematicsIntelligent Transport Systems

Location & Timing

Low Carbon & Fuel Cell Technologies

Materials

Nanotechnology

Modern Built Environment

Photonics

Resource Efficiency Sensors & InstrumentationUK Displays & Lighting

Creative Industries

Knowledge Transfer Networks



Grid Computing Now! User Communities 2008

• Green IT• Software Licensing• Transport• Health• R&D



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



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



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



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

Documents

Accelerating business innovation; a Technology Strategy Board programme Research opportunities for e-Science in the UK commercial