Emergence of e-Science
Description:
E-Science is a whole new concept just emerged.
In the future, e-Science will refer to the large scale science that will increasingly be carried out through distributed global collaborations enabled by the Internet. Typically, a feature of such collaborative scientific enterprises is that they will require access to very large data collections, very large scale computing resources and high performance visualisation back to the individual user scientists.
This essentially means that many areas of science currently using computing resources as part of their research, will soon have the ability to utilize more powerful computing resources across a new infrastructure commonly described as the 'grid'. Scientists will have access to very large data sets and perform real time experiments on this data. This will ultimately lead to scientists tackling the 'big scientific questions' hitherto unexplorable.
The Grid is the architecture proposed to bring all these issues together and make a reality of such a vision for e-Science. Ian Foster and Carl Kesselman, inventors of the Globus approach to the Grid define the Grid as an enabler for Virtual Organisations: ‘An infrastructure that enables flexible, secure, coordinated resource sharing among dynamic collections of individuals, institutions and resources.’ As a result, e-Science can be deemed as the driving force for Grid's future development.
Enablers:
- Technogical adavnces in GRID
- Technogical advances in parallel programming
- Increasing demand for large computational systems, data storage and specialized experimental facilities.
- Collaborative engineering
- Need for browsing of remote datasets
- Need for Usage of remote software
- Need for re-usable ICT component
- Large-scale parameter studies
Inhibitors:
- Organizational Issues
Paradigms:
Experts:
Research Councils UK