The faculty of science and technology joins the celebration of the national stem week. Jul 09, 2015 uk einfrastructure for research ukusa hpc workshop, oxford, july 2015 1. United states federal research funders use the term cyberinfrastructure to describe research environments that support advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization and other computing and information processing services distributed over the internet beyond the scope of a single institution. The epsrc research infrastructure team, with the help of its strategic advisory team, research council colleagues and key members of the eps community have formulated an epsrc einfrastructure roadmap to begin to develop a clear strategy and action plan for epsrc. Bu research blog bu research bournemouth university. Building capability and support in research software. Create a longterm approximately 2030 research and innovation infrastructure roadmap based on a picture of existing uk infrastructure including key international facilities in which the uk participates, future requirements research, economic and social, and resulting investment priorities. Transforming the uks access to emerging hpc technologies feeding science programs and ukri nei roadmap. Advancing hpc in the uk in the age of brexit insidehpc. The document intends to define a clear route on how to evolve the european e infrastructure system further. Software sustainability institute epsrc, bbsrc, esrc. Finlands strategy and roadmap for research infrastructures. Roadmap for development of eu research infrastructure. Page 1 of 5 draft 15102014 official sensitive commercial page 1 of 5 draft 15102014 einfrastructure leadership council 15 october 2014 14001600 bis conference centre, 1 victoria street, london, sw1h 0et.
Jul 07, 2014 epsrc also has a firm eye on the future, publishing in 2014 a roadmap which aims to understand and maximise opportunities across the uk einfrastructure landscape for all researchers in. The overarching aim of the einfrastructure activities in horizon 2020 is to achieve by 2020 a single and open european space for online research where researchers enjoy leadingedge, ubiquitous and reliable services for networking and computing, and seamless and open access to escience environments and global data resources. Uk einfrastructure for research ukusa hpc workshop. Software plays an increasingly critical role in science, including data analysis, simulations. Social programming is becoming a popular tool, enabling open and collaborative development of software resources. Proposal for the creation of a research facility for the. A static 10year roadmap was inappropriate, although a 10year horizon was important. A briefing on uk einfrastructure for research from jisc and the uk research councils. Thus this proposal will produce significant outputs and impact in 4 areas. The document is well worth your time, and epsrc are. A planningprediction framework for future needs options for investment. Research data management in the faculty of environment. Software developed for experimental facilities and instrumentation, modelling and simulation and dataanalysis is a critical and valuable resource.
The einfrastructure leadership council elc advised government on all aspects of einfrastructure including networks, data stores, computers, software and skills. Public engagement, research news, uncategorized tom watson. E infrastructure encompasses a complex set of informatics tools useful for solving problems in a wide range of fields. The strategy and roadmap for research infrastructures is a plan covering the national research infrastructures to be developed and that will require renewal over the next 1015 years. In both the recently published epsrc einfrastructure roadmap and the epsrc software as an infrastructure strategy, the importance of software development and the need to invest in people and training in this area has been strongly highlighted. Organising crosscouncil strategic conference to understand cross. It will also include appraisal of emerging opportunities such as cloud computing. Scientific infrastructure house of lords report a strategic vision for uk e. This is a proposal to create a research facility for the development of a highparallel version of the sp machine, based on the sp theory of intelligence. Be used as a discussion tool with other stakeholders and research councils. Einfrastructure roadmap update august 2014 epsrc website. The e irg roadmap 2016 is taking up the e infrastructure commons concept. A scalable approach based on nudging, to providing research software support for scientific software efficiency, sustainability and reproducibility, with qualityguidelines for research software and for researchers on how best to incorporate research software engineering support within their grant proposals.
Bu research blog research news bournemouth university. Working to coordinate activities where possible through the rcuk e infrastructure group, look to develop business cases for both capital investment and recurrent government funding in e infrastructure. More details on the activities we are involved in can be found in the subsequent pages for each area. Without effective einfrastructure, the value and efficiency of other infrastructures is reduced. This is a new executive role, and will see james hetherington work alongside mark thomson, executive chair science and technology facilities council stfc, developing and delivering the einfrastructure sector of the ukri infrastructure roadmap, leading on strategy for the software, skills, clouds, data services and supercomputers that. Epsrc also has a firm eye on the future, publishing in 2014 a roadmap which aims to understand and maximise opportunities across the uk einfrastructure landscape for all researchers in. We envisage that the new version of the sp machine will be an opensource software virtual machine, derived from the existing sp computer model, and hosted on an existing highperformance. The hague, 20170111 the e infrastructure reflection group e irg has published a new version of its roadmap document. Recommendations on einfrastructures for nextgeneration. The 20142020 roadmap includes 31 national research infrastructures, 18 of which are esfri partnerships. Uk research and innovation, through the engineering and physical sciences research council epsrc and the science and technologies facilities council stfc, is leading a programme to establish the national quantum computing centre nqcc as part of phase 2 of the national quantum technologies programme nqtp. Science, invited academics, industrialists, hardware and software suppliers and experts. However, even though the importance of sustainability is increasingly recognized, many software systems are unsustainable, and the broader impacts of most software.
Its services are applicable not only for nature sciences such as mathematics, physics, chemistry, or informatics, but also for humanity sciences and arts. This will require the development of a prioritised e infrastructure roadmap and investment plan closely dovetailed with the development of the uk wide e infrastructure strategy and investment plan. This project aims to explore applications of distributed ledger technologies dlt in domains involving voting and collective decision making. I did some work for the library to attempt to catalyse and develop good rdm practice in this faculty for a 6 month period in 2016. Flexibility and adaptability in all areas was essential. A researchers viewpoint professor carole goble freng, fbcs citp university of manchester, uk open middleware infrastructure institute software sustainability institute uk rugit russell universities group it directors, imperial college, london 28 march 2012. Epsrc considers einfrastructure to be computing facilities and software for the support of research. Einfrastructure roadmap epsrc have published their einfrastructure roadmap. With everincreasing amounts of data being produced by nextgeneration sequencing ngs experiments, the requirements placed on supporting e infrastructures have grown. The underlying hardware and software change rapidly, with major refreshes needed on a timescale of 35 years. James hetherington has been appointed as ukris new director of einfrastructure, to commence at the start of the new year.
This is a new executive role, and will see james work alongside mark thomson, executive chair stfc developing and delivering the einfrastructure sector of the ukri infrastructure roadmap, leading on strategy for the software, skills, clouds, data services and. Digital repositories are expected to form an integral part of the e infrastructure for research in the. Bbsrc research data facility and software development epsrc 8. Prior to working at microsoft research, yan was a senior software. In this work, we provide recommendations based on the collective experiences from participants in the eu cost action seqahead for the tasks of data preprocessing, upstream processing, data delivery, and downstream analysis, as. Epsrc release software for the future ii in both the recently published epsrc einfrastructure roadmap and the epsrc software as an infrastructure strategy, the importance of software development and the need to invest in people and training in this area has been strongly highlighted.
A critical analysis of corporate social responsibility csr theory and practices was given by professor tom watson of the media school in his keynote speech at the 4 th middle east public relations symposium in dubai. Nov 06, 2019 we are in quite a positive phase at the moment because, for the first time in a long time, there is a proper look at the uks supercomputing roadmap and general einfrastructure roadmap. Engineering and physical sciences research council epsrc and the. National quantum computing centre uk quantum technology. Rcuk einfrastructure roadmap vision and aspirations. Sep 15, 2016 there is a continued requirement to invest in people and training in software development, with a growing need to recognise the role and value of the research software engineer. New ukri director for einfrastructure appointed uk. Cambridge service for data driven discovery csd3 a. Uk einfrastructure for research ukusa hpc workshop, oxford. Software as infrastructure epsrc einfrastructure roadmap unlocking the clubhouse. To help you get up to speed on the latest thinking in the research software.
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