Where is Everybody?

[Marielle Lange]

Back from touring around Scotland with my mother who came to visit  
me. Gorgeous weather but no sight of Nessie :-/.

Now finishing to write up a grant, to try to get funded for some  
revolution coding (deadline this Friday). Trying to sell revolution  
as the ideal tool for grid enabled desktop tools.
cf. http://www.nesc.ac.uk/nesc/define.html

"What is meant by e-Science? 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.

The World Wide Web gave us access to information on Web pages written  
in html anywhere on the Internet. A much more powerful infrastructure  
is needed to support e-Science. Besides information stored in Web  
pages, scientists will need easy access to expensive remote  
facilities, to computing resources - either as dedicated Teraflop  
computers or cheap collections of PCs - and to information stored in  
dedicated databases.

The Grid is an 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.’ It is important to recognize that resource in this  
context includes computational systems and data storage and  
specialized experimental facilities."


Marielle


> I´m also here. :-)
> The release of ArcadeEngine was very labor intensive. But now I  
> have a bit more time.
>
> All the best,
>
> Malte
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Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and  
Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
Revolution-education project: http://revolution.lexicall.org