Description
An exploration of the concepts and status of "e-Infrastructure" at the scales of university, UK and internationally.
Mike Mineter
(NeSC training team)
20/03/2006, 09:40
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"; tools that support collaboration.
The impact that e-Infrastructure is beginning to have on research and learning is described with emphasis on the enabling of collaboration and the...
Mike Mineter
(NeSC training team)
20/03/2006, 10:20
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...
John Brooke
(ESNW)
20/03/2006, 11:20
We describe the structure of the North-West Grid which will operate between 4 partners at CCLRC Daresbury and the Universities of Lancaster, Liverpool and Manchester, starting in April 2006, providing access to over 1000 high performance processors connected by fast intranet and internet links.
Mike Mineter
(NeSC training team)
20/03/2006, 11:50
UK e-Infrastructure comprises the networks (JANET, SuperJANET, UKLight), the National Grid Service and the supporting organisations such as the Grid Operations Support Centre and the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII). An introduction to these is given. Related developments emerging from JISC are also summarised.
John Brooke
20/03/2006, 13:35
We describe the use of Grid resources to process data from the Jodrell Bank radio telescope in the search for new pulsars. This work spans the period from the birth of Grid computing to current implementations on clusters at Jodrell and on the NGS.
Mike Mineter
(NeSC training team)
20/03/2006, 14:15
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...
