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Education,Training & Awareness Raising at Welsh e-Science Centre
John Oliver – Commercial Coordinator
Introduction
• Welsh e-Science Centre Mission/Role
• Role of Commercial Coordinator
• WeSC Marketing Strategy
• Training Course Portfolio
• Awareness Raising Activities
• Future Plans
• Summary
Welsh e-Science Centre Mission
• To promote e-Science research and development in a broad area encompassing Wales
• To encourage the exploitation of e-Science ICT technologies
• To pursue research focusing in the following areas:
– data and knowledge management and interoperation of heterogeneous distributed information resources.
– problem-solving environments for scientific and engineering applications.
– distributed visualization for immersive and collaborative applications.
Role in practice
• Infrastructure Provision– UK e-Science Grid, Welsh BioGrid,
Computational Electromagnetics Grid• Research & Technology Development
– Middleware– Application exemplars
• Outreach– Awareness– Collaborative research– Technology transfer
Outreach – Commercial Coordinator
• Liaise extensively with companies in Wales
• Promote activities of WeSC & Grid technologies to academia & commerce to encourage:
- take up & use of Grid- collaborative research- technology transfer
John Oliver
WeSC Marketing Strategy
Markets identified:
• Academia – HEI’s FEI’s Research Institutes, Techniums
• Commercial/Industrial – Large, UK,Multinational, SME’s
• Innovation & Entrepreneurship – VC’s, Techniums,RDA’s, Business Angels, VC advisors
WeSC Marketing Plan -Mechanisms
- specialist topics
- run by WeSC technology specialists
- to transfer necessary technical skills to partners
TRAINING COURSES
WeSC Marketing Plan - Mechanisms
- bi-monthy- by invitation- aimed at commerce and academia- overviews of e-Science/WeSC- live demonstrations- major vendor input- networking
AWARENESS EVENTS
WeSC Marketing Plan - Mechanisms
- provide speakers for Grid topics
- furnish an exhibtion stand
- live demonstrations of technology
- promotional literature/materials
EXHIBITIONS/TRADE SHOWS
WeSC Training Portfolio
8 Courses currently, grouped:
• Service Oriented Computing – OR & CH
• Visualization – IN• HPC – RP
• Grid - JG
Training Portfolio
Dr Omer Rana
•Autonomic Computing
•Mobile Access to Grid
Infrastructure
•Service Oriented Computing
Training Portfolio
Autonomic Computing
½ day covering Autonomic Computing vision from IBM
Mobile Access to Grid Infrastructure
½ day introducing emergence of dynamic networks, their applications, types & architectures
Service Oriented Computing
½ day introducing SOC and how the approach may be useful to construct service oriented Grids
Training Portfolio
Dr Yan Huang
• Jini Technology in building a service oriented Grid System
- 2 ½ hours - introduces Jini network technology and Web services. Describes a service oriented Grid system based on both technologies
Training Portfolio
Dr Ieuan Nicholas
• Introduction to Immersive Visualisation
- ½ day- A practical guide to rules governing effective visualization and use of tools at WeSC including demonstrations
Training Portfolio
Dr Roger Philp
• Fortran 90 Workshop
• High Performance Computing with MPI Workshop
Training Portfolio
Fortran 90 Workshop – 2 days
Intended for those seeking to gain experience in Fortran 90
Includes lectures and lab sessions with traing examples & exercises
High Performance Computing with MPI Workshop- 2 days
To gain experience in HPC and Parallel Computing as well as MPI, HPC platforms, tools & build systems
Training Portfolio
Jonathan Giddy
• Grid Programming using Globus & Java - 2 days
- Intro to Grid Computing & Globus - Globus Architecture - Getting Started with Globus - Globus components - Exposed functionality - Underlying Technology - Practical use
e-Science & Grid Awareness
AWARENESS EVENTS• e-Science Overview• Commercial Benefits• Role of WeSC• Live demonstrations• e-Science product
vendor offerings
THEMES
6 – “Knowledge = Power” – Cardiff
1 – UWCM – “Medicine & Healthcare”
1 – Swansea – “Visualization”
1 – Bangor – “Knowledge Sharing”
Exhibtions/Trade Shows
• 4th Teleregions Conference – Cardiff March 2003
• Tomorrow’s Wales – LlandudnoNov 2003
• The Future Show – Newport Dec 2003
• Wrexham Science FestivalMarch 2004
• Technology Wales 2004 – NewportMay 2004
Other Events
• Cardiff University – “Innovation Marketplace”
• WDA International Workshop – Apr 04• Viznet Wales Event – Sept 04
• WIS Trailer Events
Marketing Collateral
Brochures• WeSC• Computing on Demand• Globus• Research Review• Project Case Studies• Project Poster handouts
• WeSC Newsletter
Display & promotional• WeSC Pens• WeSC Coffee Mugs• Popup display
Straplines• “Grid -the next
generation Internet”
• “The Internet Bytes Back”
Future Plans
• Condor Pool Training Course – JG
• Training courses as a source of revenue
• Awareness raising - new themes
“How to get started on the Grid”,“Collaborative Working”
• Increased use of Access Grid as a promotional tool
Summary
• Welsh e-Science Centre Mission/Role
• Role of Commercial Coordinator
• WeSC Marketing Strategy
• Training Course Portfolio
• Awareness Raising Activities
• Future Plans
• Summary
