Welcome & Introduction

• Dr Julian White (CEO of the White Rose University Consortium)

This talk will introduce the White Rose University Consortium and the White Rose Grid project.

Overview of e-Infrastructure The concepts of the different aspects of e-Infrastructure are explained, including networks connecting resources of data and computation; grids that enable these resources to be perceived as "virtual computers"; and tools that support collaboration. It provides a summary of AA (Authentication and Authorisation), Virtual Organisations (VOs), and the concept of grids offering virtual computing across administrative domains. The impact that e-Infrastructure is beginning to have on research and learning is described with emphasis on the enabling of collaboration and the potential for multi-disciplinary research. The talk sets the context for the remainder of the day, which explores e-Infrastructure at different scales - the campus, regionally, nationally and internationally.

Campus grids: e-Infrastructure within a university

• NeSC (NeSC training team)

Many UK universities and institutes have already deployed e-Infrastructures. Their motivations, methods, problems and opportunities are summarised. Current emphasis is often on the better use of computational resources - so for example, teaching laboratories with many PCs can be used overnight as a high-throughput resource for computation. The potential for e-Infrastructure to contribute more widely to research and learning is explored.

WRG e-Science Centre

• Professor Jie Xu (White Rose, University of Leeds)

This talk will summarise recent activities and achievements.

White Rose Grid e-Infrastructure

• Mr Chris Cartledge (White Rose, University of Sheffield)

This talk provides an overview of the White Rose Grid e-Infrastructure (grid nodes, WRG e-Science Centre, procedures for obtaining e-Science certificates, Access Grid, training courses, local support and contacts).

Enabling e-Research over GridPP

• Dr Dan Tovey (White Rose, University of Sheffield)

This talk will provide an overview of a computational grid for particle physics.

UK-wide e-Infrastructure

• NeSC (NeSC training team)

The UK government is investing 250 million pounds over 5 years to establish and encourage use of UK-wide e-Infrastructure. The goal is not only to underpin research and learning, the emphases of this event, but also to be the foundation of a competitive economy in the "information society". The term "e-Infrastructure" embraces the networks (JANET, SuperJANET, UKLight), grids (National Grid Service) and the enabling middleware (OMII) and the supporting organisations and services such as the Grid Operations Support Centre. An introduction to these is given, and related developments emerging from JISC are summarised.

Experience with Shibboleth

• Mr Nigel Bruce (White Rose, University of Leeds)

This talk will introduce the concept of Shibboleth and the University of Leeds' experience of being an early adopter of using Shibboleth.

Lessons learned from DAME and transfer of the project's results to BROADEN

• Professor Jim Austin (White Rose, University of York)

The outcome of the £3.5m EPSRC DAME (Distributed Aircraft Maintenance Environment) project is to be exploited by Rolls-Royce in the recently awarded £4m DTI project BROADEN (Business Resource Optimisation for Aftermarket and Design on Engineering Networks) in which the three White Rose Universities are involved jointly with Oxford and other industrial partners. This talk will summarise the lessons learned from DAME and will provide an overview of the BROADEN project.

Enabling e-Social science research

• Dr Andy Turner (White Rose, University of Leeds)

This talk will present: *an introduction to the National Centre for e-Social Science *e-Infrastructure developments for e-Social Science *modelling and simulation for e-Social Science

International e-Infrastructure

• NeSC (NeSC training team)

Many research collaborations are international. These can be empowered by an international e-infrastructure. Examples are given. The major European initiatives that integrate national initiatives in networking (GEANT), high performance computing (DEISA) and grid computing (EGEE) are described. The implications of international e-Infrastructure are summarised with reference to emerging standards and interoperability between grids that support many reseach communities.

e-Research and collaboration with China

• Professor Jie Xu (White Rose, University of Leeds)

Researchers from the WRG (Leeds) and Beihang University of China are collaborating to integrate WRG facilities with the CROWN Grid system (http://www.crown.org.cn/), which is being developed under a major e-Science program sponsored by NSF of China with five universities and other research institutes participating. Following a short introduction there will be a live demonstration of an application submitted for execution to CROWN middleware.

Closing discussion