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
Thursday 22 July 2010
The European Commission has awarded €900,000 in funding to STFC e-Science as part of a consortium of European organisations undertaking the CONTRAIL project to design, implement, evaluate and promote an open source system in which resources that belong to different operators are integrated into a single homogeneous Federated Cloud that users can access seamlessly.
Monday 21 June 2010
An example of computational modelling recently undertaken on the NGS is the 3D simulation of outflows between binary stars by Ross Parkin, a PhD student in the School of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Leeds.
Friday 11 June 2010
Today, teams of volunteers have completed the installation of the 96 low band antennas (LBA) at LOFAR station UK608 at the STFC Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire, which is the most westerly of the planned stations of the international LOFAR telescope.
Events
Monday 13 September 2010
The first EGI conference replaces the EGEE conferences of previous years.
Monday 13 September 2010
The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods.
