The BAE SYSTEMS Advanced Technology Centre is currently constructing a prototype Grid infrastructure “BAEgrid”. BAEgrid is designed as an in-house “laboratory” in which we can exercise grid concepts, capabilities and tools to develop and evaluate a range of Grid-enabled business scenarios. This is facilitated by our close relationship with the world-leading UK e-Science programme, and is being ...

Nowadays, proprietary and monolithic IT environments are more and more transformed into standardand component-based service infrastructures. In this keynote, we will analyse this trend especially for the area of e-Science. While in the past decades, scientist have developed centralised, application-focused (silo-oriented) hardware and software environments, they now (for good reasons) tend to j...

MoSeS (Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science) is a research node of the National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS). MoSeS uses e-Science techniques to execute an eventsdriven model which simulates discrete demographic processes; this allows us to project the UK population 25 years into the future. This paper describes the architecture, simulation methodology, and latest results obtain...

After a definition of e-science and the Grid, the paper begins with an overview of the technological context of Grid developments. NASA's Information Power Grid is described as an early example of a 'prototype production Grid'. The discussion of e-science and the Grid is then set in the context of the UK e-Science Programme and is illustrated with reference to some UK e-science projects in scie...

We describe the e-Science strategy in Venezuela, in particular initiatives by the Centro Nacional de Cálculo Científico Universidad de Los Andes (CECALCULA), Mérida, the Universidad de Los Andes (ULA), Mérida, and the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Caracas. We present the plans for the Venezuelan Academic Grid and the current status of Grid ULA supported by Internet...

This paper reports on the progress made to date with the establishment of the National Grid Service, the core of which is based on the nodes recently acquired from funding allocated by the JCSR and CCLRC. Following the analysis of users’ initial requirements, the UK e-Science Grid was set up through the collaborative efforts of the four involved sites and the HPC(x) and CSAR services using the ...

Within the context of the nascent e-Science infrastructure in Venezuela, we describe several web-based scientific applications developed at the Centro Nacional de Cálculo Cient́ıfico Universidad de Los Andes (CeCalCULA), Mérida, and at the Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cient́ıficas (IVIC), Caracas. The different strategies that have been followed for implementing quantum chemistry and a...

This paper considers how the concept of data provenance, developed in e-Science, can be applied to e-Social Science, specifically Evidence Based Policy Assessment. It considers what Evidence Based Policy Assessment is and what types of information can be used in such research. Quantitative and qualitative data and analytical/ interpretative approaches are outlined and the implications of these ...