UCISA:
How do I Grid Enable my University?
Welcome
Prof. Malcolm Atkinson
Director
www.nesc.ac.uk
23rd October 2003
www.nesc.ac.uk
NeSC in the UK
Globus
Alliance
National
eScience
Centre
HPC(x)
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Newcastle
Belfast
Daresbury Lab
Directors’ Forum
Helped build a community
Engineering Task Force
Grid Support Centre
Architecture Task Force
UK Adoption of OGSA
OGSA Grid Market
Workflow Management
Database Task Force
OGSA-DAI
GGF DAIS-WG
Manchester
Cambridge
Hinxton
Oxford
Cardiff
RAL
London
Southampton
Events held in the 2nd Year
(from 1 Aug 2002 to 31 Jul 2003)
We have had 86 events: (Year 1 figures in brackets)
11 project meetings
( 4)
11 research meetings
( 7) > 3600 Participant Days
25 workshops
(17 + 1)
2 “summer” schools
(0)
Establishing a training
team
15 training sessions
(8)
12 outreach events
(3)
Suggestions always
welcome
5 international meetings
(1)
5 e-Science management meetings (7)
(though the definitions are fuzzy!)
Foundation for e-Science
e-Science methodologies will rapidly transform
science, engineering, medicine and business
driven by exponential growth (×1000/decade)

enabling a whole-system approach
computers
software
Grid
sensor nets
instruments
Diagram derived from
Ian Foster’s slide
colleagues
Shared data
archives
Three-way Alliance
Multi-national, Multi-discipline, Computer-enabled
Consortia, Cultures & Societies
Theory
Models & Simulations
→
Shared Data
Requires Much
Computing Science
Engineering,
Systems, Notations &
Much Innovation Formal Foundation
Experiment &
Advanced Data
Collection
→
Shared Data
Changes Culture,
New Mores,
New Behaviours
→ Process & Trust
New Opportunities, New Results, New Rewards
Your Challenge
Enable that Three-Way Alliance
For all researchers, analysts and designers

And their students
For all disciplines
Dynamic Problem-driven multi-organisation consortia
In an Affordable and Safe way
Realistic staff and user requirements
Reliable and Protected
Fairly accounted — Trustworthy authentication
No new vulnerabilities
The Grid is a First Step
Not the goal