Virtual Lab for eScience Towards a new Science

Virtual Lab for e-Science Towards a new Science Paradigm

Virtual Lab for e-Science Towards a new Science Paradigm Project Director: Prof. Dr. L. O. Hertzberger This work is supported by a BSIK grant of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OC&W) and is part of the ICT innovation programme of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ)

Scientific Application • Traditional position of ICT in science: Application running on a single machine… ➨ Little ICT overhead, no collaboration and/or sharing of data and information • Evolving technological developments like Grid, networks and Service Oriented Architecture allow sharing of data and information through distributed computing and storage, thus enabling scientific applications to do experiments that had not been possible before… ➨ Introduces large ICT overhead ➨ Requires extensive ICT knowledge ➨ Application scientist forced to focus on ICT problems rather than science

Scientific Application • On the other hand, e-Science is already based on Grid and other supporting ICT… ➨ To stimulate scientific applications to adopt e-Science an infrastructure is needed! • Frameworks like VL-e are providing basic services which will hide computing resources and boost the development of data and computationally intensive e-Science applications on a large scale distributed infrastructure… ➨ Application scientist can increase his productivity, while focusing on his own science rather than on ICT problems

e-Science trend applies to many scientific application domains… Application pull Dutch Telescience Scientific Application Flight Safety Scientific Application Medical Imaging

Virtual Laboratory e-Science Oriented Services Technology push Grid Services Harness multi-domain distributed resources Application pull The Grid is harnessing geographically distributed resources, VL-e aims at creating an e-Science framework where generic Every application has specific and generic parts, allowing seamless to these hiding ICT details. components areaccess exposed to the resources scientists and across application like storage, computing and communication… domains, increasing reusability, sharing and collaboration