e-Science is vital to the successful exploitation of powerful next generation scientific facilities, operated by Science and Technology Facilities Council on behalf of the UK research community.
Scientific facilities such as synchrotrons, satellites, telescopes and lasers, collectively generate many terabytes of data every day. Their users require efficient access to geographically distributed leading edge data storage, computational and network resources in order to manage and analyse these data in a timely and cost effective way. e-Science builds the infrastructure which delivers this.
Our mission is to spearhead the exploitation of e-Science technologies throughout Science and Technology Facilities Council’s programmes, the research communities they support and the national science and engineering base.
News
Friday 11 December 2009
The worldwide e-Science community has gathered this week in Oxford for the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, the IEEE e-Science Conference, and the Interntional Review of the UK e-Science Programme. The main event took place at the Oxford United football stadium featuring a strong presence from STFC e-Science.
Friday 04 December 2009
The BBC has reported that the NGS has provided about 20 years worth of processing time to simulate transistors smaller than 30 nanometres to enable future generations of chips to be designed with more processing power.
Events
Monday 15 February 2010
To be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2010 – http://www.ares-conference.eu). FARES establishes an in-depth academic platform to exchange novel theories, designs, applications and on-going research results among researchers and practitioners in different Computing Dependability aspects which emphasize the Practical Issues in Availability, Reliability and Security.
Sunday 07 March 2010
ISGC 2010 will focus on data driven e-Science, highlighting use cases and successful applications. Developments to establish sustainable infrastructures and the long-term support of e-Science communities will be an underlying theme.
Monday 15 March 2010
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community of users, developers, and vendors leading the global standardization effort for grid computing. The OGF community consists of thousands of individuals in industry and research, representing over 400 organizations in more than 50 countries. Together we work to accelerate adoption of grid computing worldwide because we believe grids will lead to new discoveries, new opportunities, and better business practices.
Sunday 04 April 2010
Data is a key aspect of the scientific research and the amount and the complexity of scientific data is rapidly increasing. Creating the computer infrastructure which can extract scientific knowledge by linking, processing and analyzing these distributed and diverse data is a crucial issue. This e-Science infrastructure is also a basis for constructing digital repositories which can archive and share valuable knowledge among science communities. As the climate change problem shows, scientific research needs to be conducted collaboratively on a global scale and the distributed data infrastructure which can support various science communities would be indispensable. Based on this motivation, this workshop aims to bring scientists from diverse fields together, and to serve them an opportunity to share their research experiences on how data intensive computing has been facilitating scientific discoveries.
