National e-Science
Centre
&
e-Science Institute
Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk
2nd March 2005
The Primary Requirement …
Building people grids
Enabling People to Work Together on Challenging Projects: Science, Engineering & Medicine
Attendance from different countries
900
International
Visitor
Programme
Other
800
Australasia
700
North America
Europe (non UK)
600
UK (Other)
AC.UK
500
400
200
Year 3/Q3
Year 3/Q2
Year 3/Q1
Year 2/Q4
Year 2/Q3
Year 2/Q2
Year 2/Q1
Year 1/Q4
Year 1/Q3
0
Year 1/Q2
100
National
&
International
Multi-disciplinary
Meeting
Place
Year 3/Q4
300
NeSC Website Statistics
www.nesc.ac.uk
50
750000
AFRICA
45
AMERICA - NORTH
650000
AMERICA - OTHER
ASIA
40
EUROPE - UK
550000
EUROPE - NON UK
35
MIDDLE EAST
OCEANIA - PACIFIC
25
350000
20
250000
15
150000
10
50000
5
Year 3/Q4
Year 3/Q3
Year 3/Q2
Year 3/Q1
Year 2/Q4
Year 2/Q3
Year 2/Q2
Year 2/Q1
Year 1/Q4
Year 1/Q3
-50000
Year 1/Q2
0
Successful Hits
HITS
Year 1/Q1
Volume (GB)
450000
UNKNOWN
30
What is e-Infrastructure – Political view
A shared resource
That 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
UK e-Science Budget
(2001-2006)
Total: £213M + £100M via JISC
EPSRC Breakdown
MRC (£21.1M)
10%
EPSRC (£77.7M)
37%
Staff costs only Applied (£35M)
45% Grid Resources
HPC
(£11.5M)
BBSRC (£18M)
15%
8%
NERC (£15M)
7%
Computers & NetworkCore (£31.2M)
(£57.6M)
40%
funded separately PPARC27%
CLRC (£10M)
5%
ESRC (£13.6M)
6%
+ Industrial Contributions £25M
Source: Science Budget 2003/4 – 2005/6, DTI(OST)
The e-Science
Centres
Globus Alliance
National
Centre for
e-Social
Science
Open
Middleware
Infrastructure
Institute
e-Science
Institute
Grid
Operations
Support
Centre
Digital
Curation
Centre
CeSC (Cambridge)
EGEE
National
Institute
for
Environmental
e-Science
eDiaMoND – Compute
Mammograms have different
appearances, depending on image
settings and acquisition systems
Standard
Mammo
Format
Temporal
mammography
Computer
Aided
Detection
New diagnostic capability
New epidemiology
New training and education
Provided by eDiamond project: Prof. sir Mike Brady et al.
3D View
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 partner
E-Infrastructure will rapidly transform the ways we work
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