National Grid Seminar Series

UK e-Science Programme

Dr. Anne Trefethen
Deputy Director
UK e-Science Core Programme
UK

24 September 2003 (Wednesday)
0900 hours @ Auditorium
Institute for Infocomm Research
21 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119613

Abstract

Many areas of science, technology and commerce involve access to distributed computing and data resources, remote access to specialized and expensive facilities and world-wide collaborations of key expertise. There are many examples of such applications ranging from bioinformatics and proteomics to collaborative engineering and environmental science.

In April 2001, the UK government announced a new 3-year e-Science initiative with some £120M funding to focus on building this capability for scientific research. Recently the initiative has been extended by a further 2 years with the addition of a further £115M.

In this presentation I will give an overview of the programme, describing a range of the applications that are now on going within the e-Science programme and detail one of the focuses of the e-Science Core Programme, that of building a UK e-Science Grid. I will briefly discuss some of the middleware development activities in the UK and indicate where they sit in the international scene.

Biodata

Anne Trefethen is the Deputy Director of the UK e-Science Core Programme. The Programme has the remit to build and support the e-Science infrastructure in the UK, collaborating with both industry and international partners. Before joining the programme, she was the Vice President for Research and Development at NAG Ltd, responsible for leading technical development in NAG's numerical and statistical products.

Prior to 1997, Anne was the Associate Director for Scientific Computational Support at the Cornell Theory Center, which was one of four National supercomputer centres in the USA.

She is experienced in parallel linear algebra and scientific applications, both as a Research Scientist in the performance and algorithms group at the Cornell Theory Center, and as a Research Scientist in the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Group at Thinking Machines Corporation, developing the Connection Machine Scientific Software Library (CMSSL).

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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 23 September 2003.