National e-Science Centre

&e-Science Institute

Malcolm Atkinson

Director

www.nesc.ac.uk2nd March 2005

The Primary Requirement …

Enabling People to Work Together on Challenging Projects: Science, Engineering & Medicine

Building people grids

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www.nesc.ac.uk

What is e-Infrastructure – Political view

A shared resourceThat 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, internet

NERC (£15M)7%

CLRC (£10M)5%

ESRC (£13.6M)6%

PPARC (£57.6M)27%

BBSRC (£18M)8%

MRC (£21.1M)10%

EPSRC (£77.7M)37%

Staff costs only -Grid Resources

Computers & Networkfunded separately

Applied (£35M)45%

HPC (£11.5M)15%

Core (£31.2M)40%

EPSRC Breakdown

UK e-Science Budget (2001-2006)

Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST)

Total: £213M

+ Industrial Contributions £25M

+ £100M via JISC

Globus Alliance

CeSC (Cambridge)

DigitalCurationCentre

e-Science Institute

Open Middleware

Infrastructure Institute

The e-Science Centres

EGEE

Grid Operations

SupportCentre

NationalCentre fore-SocialScience

National Institute

forEnvironmental

e-Science

eDiaMoND – Compute

Mammograms have different appearances, depending on image settings and acquisition systems

StandardMammoFormat

StandardMammoFormat

Temporal mammography

ComputerAidedDetection

3D View

Provided by eDiamond project: Prof. sir Mike Brady et al.

New diagnostic capability

New epidemiology

New training and education

What can NeSC do for you?

Provide e-Research events?Workshops, meetings, access grid

Provide training?Give advice & share gathered intelligence?

Internationally and nationally gathering information

Help organise sharing and collaboration?Collaborate with you in your research (bids)?Engage in research together?

Must provide valuable research for each partnerE-Infrastructure will rapidly transform the ways we work

Edinburgh should be leading the way• Exploit multi-disciplinary strength• Develop agile responses• Do it for ourselves – leadership• Extract & Refine the recipe• Share our understanding & resources