eScience/grid awareness day

Friday 6 May 2005

General information

The NIEeS and the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory are co-organising an eScience/Grid awareness day at the Foresight Centre in Liverpool University. The aim of this one-day workshop is to provide an update on the broad range of eScience activities within the UK. We plan a mix of background/information talks and presentations of case studies, some with live demonstrations. This awareness day covers a wide range of topics and will be of interest both to those just starting their eScience journey and those with more experience.

The local organiser is Colin Stephens of POL.

Programme

The event will begin at 9.30 am, with registration open from 9 am, and end with refreshements at 4 pm.

The detailed programme is

9.00

Registration

9.30

Introduction to eScience, Tony Hey (EPSRC, Director of the eScience Core Programme)
What is eScence, what are grids, different types of grids, relation between grid computing and high performance computing, what is the UK doing, etc?

10.00

Core escience technologies for environmental escience 1, Martin Dove (Cambridge/NIEeS)
Core computing grid technologies and integrated data management tools, with illustrations using applications of escience within the eMinerals, GENIE and ClimatePrediction.net projects.

10.25

Core escience technologies for environmental escience 2, Jon Blower (Reading)
Web services and data management/access tools, with illustrations using applications of escience within the GODIVA and NERC DataGrid projects.

10.50

Coffee/tea break

11.15

eScience and grid projects in Liverpool and North West England, John Brooke (Manchester)

11.40

Management of data and compute resources, Rik Tyer (Daresbury Laboratory)
Portals, metadata, data management tools, support services for eScience users

12.05

GridPP: Towards 100,000 processors, Themis Bocock (Liverpool)

12.25

Condor at Liverpool University, Ian Smith (Liverpool)

12.45

The access grid, Martin Dove (Cambridge)
This talk will include a live demonstration, with time to explore over lunch

13.00

Lunch

14.00

The National Grid Service facilities for grid computing and data analysis, Andrew Richards (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)

14:20

Business grid: the business potential for utility computing, Dennis Kehoe (AIMeS)

14.45

Business applications of grid computing, Simon Laws (IBM)

15.10

e-STAR: Building a heterogeneous telescope network, Iain Steele (John Moores University)

15.35

Environmental eScience: into the future, Martin Dove (Cambridge, NIEeS)
Where is environmental escience heading? What support structures are available?

16.00

Coffee/tea and close

Location

The conference will take place in the Foresight conference centre at Liverpool University.

The conference centre web site contains links to pages about the venue and travel instructions. The centre has car parking. The centre also provides a downloadable map.

Registration

There is no registration charge, and lunch and refreshments will be provided free. Registration is essential and must be done using our on-line form (link on the right).

Please book early to ensure that you are able to obtain a place.

In the event of any difficulty in booking, including not receiving an email confirmation within 24 hours, please email the NIEeS office.

Contact and further information

For information about registration, and all other types of queries, please contact the NIEeS office in the first instance.

Last update: Mon, May 2, 2005