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e-Science community gathers in Oxford

Friday 11 December 2009

Since the UK e-Science programme began in 2001 over 100 projects, worth more than £250 million have been undertaken. The programme has supported both the development of generic technologies, such as middleware, and the development of  techniques demonstrated across a broad range of individual research disciplines. The community which has created and uses these tools and infrastructure, gathers each year at the All Hands Meeting for both scheduled activities and informal discussion.

The STFC DIrector of e-Science, Neil Geddes gave a keynote presentation on developments in the European e-infrastructure including the establishment of the EGI as a European institution coordinating distributed scientific computing, PRACE as a pan-European supercomputing initiative, and the scientific computing support for the very large ESFRI roadmap projects.

The NGS and GridPP were presented together at a booth in the exhibition as they collaborate as the UK NGI within the European EGI. STFC e-Science was also represented in the exhibition on the RCUK booth presenting the activities of all the UK Research Councils. Each day there have been demonstrations on this RCUK stand from projects funded under the UK e-Science programme which were attended by supportive audiences.

Among the technical papers at the conferences, several were presented by STFC e-Science staff including Lakshmi Sastry, Brian Matthews, and Ben Aziz.