e-Science and Global Grids in the Information Society: The Role of an EU e-IRG? Tony Hey Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme

A Definition of e-Science ‘e-Science is about global collaboration in key areas of science, and the next generation of infrastructure that will enable it.’ John Taylor Director General of Research Councils Office of Science and Technology  Purpose of e-Science initiative is to allow scientists to do faster, different, better research

Licklider’s Vision of the Grid “Lick had this concept of the intergalactic network which he believed was everybody could use computers anywhere and get at data anywhere in the world. He didn’t envision the number of computers we have today by any means, but he had the same concept – all of the stuff linked together throughout the world, that you can use a remote computer, get data from a remote computer, or use lots of computers in your job. The vision was really Lick’s originally.” Larry Roberts – Principal Architect of the ARPANET

The Integrative Biology Project £2.3M Project involving the University of Oxford (and others) in the UK and the University of Auckland in New Zealand Modelling electrical behaviour of heart cells developed by Denis Noble’s team in Oxford Couple with mechanical model of beating heart developed in Auckland  Information on influence of genetic defects on electrocardiograms

Some thoughts from a UK Perspective eInfrastructure must support genuine needs of users/applications To support ‘routine’ collaboration between institutions in different countries need set of robust middleware services and agreed‘policies’ Pan-European Authentication and Authorization services but not so clear about Accounting Need to work with NRENS CERTs about security implications of middleware services

CERN's Users in the World Europe: 267 institutes, 4603 users Elsewhere: 208 institutes, 1632 users

Powering the Virtual Universe (Edinburgh, Belfast, Cambridge, Leicester, London, Manchester, RAL) Multi-wavelength showing the jet in M87: from top to bottom – Chandra X-ray, HST optical, Gemini mid-IR, VLA radio. AstroGrid will provide advanced, Grid based, federation and data mining tools to facilitate better and faster scientific output. Picture credits: “NASA / Chandra X-ray Observatory / Herman Marshall (MIT)”, “NASA/HST/Eric Perlman (UMBC), “Gemini Observatory/OSCIR”, “VLA/NSF/Eric Perlman (UMBC)/Fang Zhou, Biretta (STScI)/F Owen (NRA)” p7 Printed: 02/06/2015

Purpose of EU eInfrastructure? Some clear sets of users with their own resources who wish to collaborate –Particle physicists, Astronomers Probably several other important user communities –Healthcare, Climate/EO, …. Show the way for Inter-Enterprise collaboration for industry –Greek Presidency ERIA

Common Fabric Group A Group B Connect Provide Exchange Resources Generic services eInfrastructure Private Resources Private Resources

Purpose of eIRG? Understand problems and barriers that make intra-EU research collaborations difficult Formulate guidelines/policies for EU collaboration with the international community Bring together national best practice with EU projects and initiatives Must work closely with other relevant bodies such as the NRENs and ESFRI