1. IBM & HSBC visit Malcolm Atkinson Director & e-Science Envoy UK National e-Science Centre & e-Science Institute www.nesc.ac.uk 30 th March 2006

2. Overview Background UK-Science, NeSC & eSI History IBM & e-Science in Scotland Example Projects BRIDGES OGSA-DAI NanoCMOS-Grid Future thinking

3. Globus Alliance CeSC (Cambridge) Digital Curation Centre e-Science Institute Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute - UK The e-Science Centres EGEE, ChinaGrid Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute - UK

4. Enabling Grids for E-sciencE INFSO-RI-508833 30 March 2006 Geographical distribution of courses

5. History of a good partnership Nick Donofrio supported our bid May 2001 for NeSC and eSI Provided IT infrastructure Secondment part time of Dr Andy Knox From IBM Greenock August 2001 to December 2004 Started OGSA-DAI project with IBM February 2002 IBM Blue Gene Conference held at eSI March 2002 IBM Donation of a P690 for e-Science Edinburgh February 2003 IBM Strategy Group meeting May 2003 Started BRIDGES project joint with IBM September 2003 IBM supported OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK node & e-Science Institute 5-year

6. BRIDGES Synteny Grid Service blast + VO Authorisation Information Integrator OGSA-DAI Slide provided by Richard Sinnott: University of Glasgow

7. UK e-Science Presentations China 3 rd December 2005 Project Partners Funded by the Grid Core Programme OGSA-DAI £3 million, 18 months, from Feb 2002 Three major releases, three interim releases DAIT (DAI-Two) Keep the OGSA-DAI brand name £1.5 million, 24 months, from Oct 2003 Four major releases OGSA-DAI – an OMII-UK node Merger with my Grid & OMII £1.8 million, 3 years from Nov. 2005 GGF DAIS WG Strong involvement. Standardise the interfaces OGSA-DAI to be a reference implementation Powered by ….

8. © The OGSA-DAI Team IBM Development Team, Hursley NEReSC, Newcastle NeSC, Edinburgh ESNW, Manchester IBM Dissemination Team EPCC Team, Edinburgh Prof Kai Nan Computer Network Information Centre Chinese Academy of Sciences Dr Yongwei Wu Department of Computing Science Tsinghua University

9. Working with the IBM academy The future of e-Science Advanced models of sustainable, flexible and multi-purpose e-Infrastructures Integrating data and knowledge Dynamic and pervasive systems Persistent functions on evolving technologies Like the global telecommunications systems