e-Science is vital to the successful exploitation of powerful next generation scientific facilities, operated by Science and Technology Facilities Council on behalf of the UK research community.
Scientific facilities such as synchrotrons, satellites, telescopes and lasers, collectively generate many terabytes of data every day. Their users require efficient access to geographically distributed leading edge data storage, computational and network resources in order to manage and analyse these data in a timely and cost effective way. e-Science builds the infrastructure which delivers this.
Our mission is to spearhead the exploitation of e-Science technologies throughout Science and Technology Facilities Council’s programmes, the research communities they support and the national science and engineering base.
News
Wednesday 03 March 2010
LHC Tier-1 computer at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory has been used to analyse ground motion data from earthquakes to determine the characteristics of the earthquake.
Tuesday 09 February 2010
RCUK undertook an international review of the UK e-Science programme in December 2009 which delivered its draft report to the community today. The report was positive about the programme's achievements concluding that "the UK is an international leader in a broad range of areas in e-Science."
Events
Monday 15 March 2010
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. Together we work to accelerate adoption of grid computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices.
Sunday 04 April 2010
Data is a key aspect of the scientific research and the amount and the complexity of scientific data is rapidly increasing. Creating the computer infrastructure which can extract scientific knowledge by linking, processing and analyzing these distributed and diverse data is a crucial issue. This e-Science infrastructure is also a basis for constructing digital repositories which can archive and share valuable knowledge among science communities. As the climate change problem shows, scientific research needs to be conducted collaboratively on a global scale and the distributed data infrastructure which can support various science communities would be indispensable. Based on this motivation, this workshop aims to bring scientists from diverse fields together, and to serve them an opportunity to share their research experiences on how data intensive computing has been facilitating scientific discoveries.
Monday 12 April 2010
The 5th EGEE User Forum will be held in collaboration with EGI and NDGF in Uppsala, Sweden, April 12-16, 2010. With the establishment of sustainable European and National e-Infrastructures this event will be the ideal place for European e-Infrastructure users to meet, share experiences, and shape the future of Euoropean e-Infrastructures.
Monday 12 April 2010
Annual conference for JISC, its service suppliers and the UK academic community that uses them.
