National e-Science CentreGlasgow e-Science Hub

Opening: Remarks

NeSC’s Role

Prof. Malcolm AtkinsonDirector

www.nesc.ac.uk

17th September 2003

Global Drivers of e-Science

CollaborationData DelugeDigital Technology

UbiquityCost reductionPerformance increase

Consequential InvestmentUK e-Science £240 million + 80 companiesEU e-InfrastructureUSA cyberinfrastructure…

Three-way Alliance

Computing ScienceSystems, Notations &

Formal Foundation→ Process & Trust

TheoryModels & Simulations

→Shared Data

Experiment &Advanced Data

Collection→

Shared Data

Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabledConsortia, Cultures & Societies

Requires Much Engineering, Much Innovation

Changes Culture, New Mores, New Behaviours

New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards

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

Foundation for e-Science

sensor nets

Shared data archives

computers

software

colleagues

instruments

Grid

e-Science methodologies will rapidly transform science, engineering, medicine and business

driven by exponential growth (×1000/decade) enabling a whole-system approach

Diagram derived fromIan Foster’s slide

Cambridge

Newcastle

Edinburgh

Oxford

Glasgow

Manchester

Cardiff

Southampton

London

Belfast

Daresbury Lab

RALHinxton

NeSC in the UKNational

e-ScienceCentre HPC(x)

Directors’ ForumHelped build a

communityEngineering Task ForceGrid Support CentreArchitecture Task Force

UK Adoption of OGSAOGSA Grid MarketWorkflow Management

Database Task ForceOGSA-DAIGGF DAIS-WG

GridNet e-Storm

Globus Alliance

www.nesc.ac.uk

Current Activities

e-Science InstituteVisitor ProgrammeEvent ProgrammeWeb Site

NeSCCore Programme & Research ProjectsSetting up training team: eSCP+PPARC+EGEEBidding

Digital Curation Centre Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute NextGrid Collaboration with MRC, BBSRC, … bids

Data Access, Integration,Publication, Annotation and

Curation

LinguisticCorpora

ArkDB

Advancede-Science

edikt

Mouse Atlas

Repositories

OGSA-DAI& DAIT

DCCProposal

ODD-Genes

Mobile Code

ScientificData

CS Research

GTI

BRIDGES

SuperCOSMOS

AstroGrid

ScotGridGridPP

QCDGrid

Applications

PGPGrid

FirstDIG

MS.NET Grid

NeSC MissionTo 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 applicationsTo 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.

Goal

To have influenceWhat 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?

Thank You

To the University of Glasgow

for its substantial investment in and commitment to e-Science