national e-science centre & e-science institute malcolm atkinson director 2 nd march 2005
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National e-Science Centre
&e-Science Institute
Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk2nd March 2005
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The Primary Requirement …
Enabling People to Work Together on Challenging Projects: Science, Engineering & Medicine
Building people grids
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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