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 29 July 2010
Today Research Councils UK (RCUK) have published a report to identify the next steps for the development of the UK’s e-infrastructure for research and innovation, in response to a request last year from the Department of Business, Industry and Skills. The report was prepared by the Review Expert Group chaired by Professor Carole Goble. It concluded that further efforts are needed to drive forward the continued development of a globally competitive research base within the UK.
Tuesday 27 July 2010
The Climatic Research Unit at UEA, and STFC e-Science have been awarded JISC funding for a project to further open access to derived scientific data in order that research findings should be properly verifiable - that is the data derived by analysis from raw data collected experimentally, but before the final resultant data which will be published in academic papers.
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.
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.
