The National e-Science Centre

eSI in Edinburgh

NeSC Roles

National: help coordinate and lead the UK e-Science Programme

Community building activities, Skill building through training events & support centre

Regional: support & outreach International: Help establish the UK’s role

International meetings, standardisation work & presentations

Run the e-Science InstituteKnowledge building through workshops and conferencesResearch visitors and events

Undertake R&D projectsTo deliver reliable middlewareTo engage industryTo stimulate the uptake of e-Science technology and methodsEmphasis on scientific data management

Events at NeSCPast: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/past.html (All presentations can be found here)

Monday,June 13,2005: Meeting for Core e-Science Programme Open Call/IRC projectsMonday,June 13,2005: Induction to Grid Computing and the National Grid ServiceMonday,June 6,2005: Designing for Usability in eScience: A suite of tutorials for Researchers Interested in Improving Usableness and Usefulness of their eScience tools

Current: TODAY!Thu 16 Jun - Fri 17 Jun CampusGrid meetinghttp://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/556/

Future: http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/esi.html (Registration can be found here)

Mon 20 Jun - Tue 21 Jun: Networks for non-Networkers 2 (NFNN2)Wed 22 Jun - Thu 23 Jun: Grid Performance Workshop 2005Thu 30 Jun - Fri 1, Jul: BiodiversityWorld GRID workshop….

NeSC Training team

Funded by: e-Science Core Programme, PPARC, GOSC, and EU grants within EGEE Team comprises:

4 trainers2.5 developers0.5 admin support0.5 system support 0.5 dissemination

Induction, Application Developer, sys. admin

EGEE, NGS, OMII,…WSDL, WSRF, GT4, UMLRequests invited!!!

NGS Induction Course

At NeSC

Enabling, facilitating and delivering quality training in the UK and internationally