National Grid Seminar Series

Grid Computing & e-Science -
from Design to in-Service Support
- An Industrial View of the Business Benefits

Dr. Peter Cowley
Chief Scientist
Rolls-Royce plc
UK

4 November 2003 (Tuesday)
0900 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Rolls-Royce is a partner in two UK e-Science Grid Demonstrator Projects each valued at over £3M. These demonstrators are performing research on industrially relevant grid technology and evaluating the business benefits of applying Grid technologies to engineering.

One project, GEODISE, aims to demonstrate how Grid services allow the integration of different design analysis tools and provide the compute power needed to perform design optimisation using detailed design analysis code. This project is a collaboration between the Universities of Southampton, Oxford and Manchester and between Rolls-Royce plc and BAe Systems plc.

The second project, DAME, aims to provide advanced diagnostics and prognostics by making use of widely distributed operational and design information. It illustrates how the compute power of the Grid may be used to search poorly structured vibration data for past occurrences of similar events and how new analysis tools can be offered as Grid services within a heterogeneous computing environment. This project is a collaboration between the Universities of York, Oxford, Leeds and Sheffield and between Rolls-Royce plc, Data Systems and Solutions Ltd and Cybula Ltd.

The presentation will share a vision for a Grid enabled distributed enterprise and use the two projects to illustrate some of the opportunities and issues that need to be addressed.

Biodata

Peter Cowley is Chief Scientist – Research and Technology at Rolls-Royce plc. He is Visiting Professor in Engineering at Manchester University and a member of the UK e-Science Steering Committee and the National Measurement Advisory Committee. He is responsible for identifying, evaluating and acquiring new and emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on Rolls-Royce business.

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This seminar series is organized by the National Grid Office located at 21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613.

Admission is Free. All are Welcome. Please email to Miss Vasugi (email: vasu@ngp.org.sg) to register a place by 1000 hours on 31 October 2003.