I'd like to thank Malcolm Atkinson for inviting me to
participate in the grand opening of the National eScience Center.
As Director of the San Diego Supercomputer Center, I've
had the opportunity to talk with a number of e-Science
center scientists who have visited us recently -including Tony Hey, Malcolm Atkinson, Anne Trefethen,
Jim Flemming, and Stuart Anderson – to discuss the
possibilities and opportunities for bridging international
boundaries with advances in e-Science.
I am talking to you today from the San Diego
Supercomputer Center, located on the campus of the
University of California, San Diego. The mission of our
center, SDSC, is to develop and use technology to
advance science. Through leadership in the
computational biosciences, data and knowledge
systems, grid computing, and high-performance
computing, SDSC, together with US and worldwide
partners such as the UK e-Science community are
involved in building a global information infrastructure
that will change the face of science and technology over
the next decade.
SDSC is the leading edge site for the National
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
(NPACI) a 48-institution U.S. e-Science partnership
funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and
one of the four sites building the TeraGrid, an exciting
and extensible national grid which will help forward the
vision of a global information infrastructure. The
TeraGrid project was announced last year and was
awarded $53M by NSF to build a cutting edge
comprehensive grid environment for open scientific
research.
SDSC is involved in many collaborations with the UK,
especially in the area of Grid data services and dataintensive applications.
Researchers at SDSC have talked with Tony Hey and
others about our experiences in building computational
grids and data systems, and we are currently sharing
software such as SDSC’s Storage Resource Broker and
Information Integration Testbed. In fact, Reagan Moore,
co-director of SDSC's Data and Knowledge Systems
activities will be visiting NeSC next week and Reagan,
Chaitan Baru and myself will be in Edinburgh this
summer for the Global Grid Forum.
The Global Information Infrastructure must be built by
the whole community and activities in the US and UK
will be integrated to provide a worldwide computational
and data management fabric. The potential impacts of eScience on scientific advances are virtually unlimited.
I'm looking forward to visiting NeSC in July
and strengthening the relationship between our two
centers, and to working with you to address the
challenges of science and technology over the next
decade.
Thank you for the opportunity to participate today in this
important event, and on behalf of NPACI and SDSC -wish NeSC every success in its scientific endeavors.