Professor Tony Hey (Director of the UK e-Science Core Program, EPSRC, UK) |
16th January 2002 |
The UK e-Science Program and the Grid |
The talk describes the £120M UK 'e-Science' initiative and begins by
defining what is meant by the term e-Science. The majority of the
£120M, some £85M, is for the support of large-scale e-Science projects
in many areas of science and engineering. The infrastructure needed to
support such projects needs to allow sharing of distributed and
heterogeneous computational and data resources and support effective
collaboration between groups of scientists. Such an infrastructure is
commonly referred to as the Grid. The remaining funds, some £35M,
constitute the e-Science 'Core Program' and is intended to encourage
the development of robust and generic Grid middleware in collaboration
with industry. The key elements of the Core Program will be described
including the construction of a UK e-Science Grid. In addition, the
talk will include a description of the pilot projects that have so far
received funding. These span a range of disciplines from particle
physics and astronomy to engineering and healthcare. We conclude with
some remarks about the need to develop a data architecture for the
Grid that will allow federated access to relational databases as well
as flat files.
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Professor Tony Hey |
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