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Education,Training & Awareness
Raising at Welsh e-Science Centre
John Oliver – Commercial Coordinator
Introduction
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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
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To promote e-Science research and development in a broad
area encompassing Wales
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To encourage the exploitation of e-Science ICT
technologies
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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
john.oliver@wesc.ac.uk
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
TRAINING COURSES
- specialist topics
- run by WeSC technology specialists
- to transfer necessary technical skills to
partners
WeSC Marketing Plan Mechanisms
AWARENESS EVENTS
- bi-monthy
- by invitation
- aimed at commerce and academia
- overviews of e-Science/WeSC
- live demonstrations
- major vendor input
- networking
WeSC Marketing Plan Mechanisms
EXHIBITIONS/TRADE SHOWS
- provide speakers for Grid topics
- furnish an exhibtion stand
- live demonstrations of technology
- promotional literature/materials
WeSC Training Portfolio
8 Courses currently, grouped:
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Service Oriented Computing – OR & CH
Visualization – IN
HPC – RP
Grid - JG
Training Portfolio
•Autonomic
Computing
•Mobile Access to Grid
Infrastructure
•Service Oriented
Computing
Dr Omer Rana
O.F.Rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
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
• 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
Dr Yan Huang
Yan.Huang@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Training Portfolio
• Introduction to
Immersive Visualisation
- ½ day
- A practical guide to rules
governing effective
visualization and use of tools
at WeSC including
Dr Ieuan Nicholas
demonstrations
I.A.Nicholas@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
Training Portfolio
• Fortran 90 Workshop
• High Performance
Computing with MPI
Workshop
Dr Roger Philp
R.N.Philp@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
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
• 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
Jonathan Giddy
J.P.Giddy@cs.cardiff.ac.uk
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 – Llandudno
Nov 2003
• The Future Show – Newport
Dec 2003
• Wrexham Science Festival
March 2004
• Technology Wales 2004 – Newport
May 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
Display & promotional
• WeSC Pens
• WeSC Coffee Mugs
• Popup display
• WeSC Newsletter
• “The Internet Bytes
Back”
Straplines
• “Grid -the next
generation Internet”
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
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Welsh e-Science Centre Mission/Role
Role of Commercial Coordinator
WeSC Marketing Strategy
Training Course Portfolio
Awareness Raising Activities
Future Plans
Summary