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Open seminar on future need for eInfrastructure for Norwegian research

Location:
The Research Council
From:
19.03.2010 09:00 CET
To:
19.03.2010 16:00 CET
The meeting targets researchers from various areas in the natural sciences and the human and social sciences, as well as the administration from the Research Council of Norway.

eInfrastructure
An increasing number of challenges in research become compute- and data-intensive. Many researchers have a need to develop models that require the use of increasingly larger computing resources or they experience an explosion in the amount of research data. This can be observed in various areas in the natural sciences (bio-informatics, physics and climate research), but also increasingly in the human and social sciences (e.g., linguistics).

 
Modern research requires a distributed electronic infrastructure (eInfrastructure) that enables cross-disciplinary research where parties share data and analyse large amounts of data. eInfrastructure consists of large computing resources, storage systems, advanced software systems, high performance digital communication and relevant support services. A Norwegian focus on eInfrastructure is important both for support of national objectives and for participation in European and global arenas. eInfrastructure is therefore an important element in the Research Councils focus on research infrastructure.


The Research Council of Norway has appointed an eInfrastructure Scientific Opportunities Panel that aims to identify the needs for eInfrastructure for Norwegian research from 2015 and onwards. In the first half of 2010, the eInfrastructure Scientific Opportunities Panel will compile a Scientific Case for national eInfrastructure. The objective is to identify the research environments - and their scientific challenges - that are or will be dependent on a well-functioning eInfrastructure in the future.


Open seminar
The Research Council of Norway arranges an open seminar on March 19 that is an opportunity for researchers from many disciplines to provide input to the eInfrastructure Scientific Opportunities Panel on future needs for eInfrastructure for Norwegian research and their work on the Scientific Case.


The meeting targets researchers from various areas in the natural sciences and the human and social sciences, as well as the administration from the Research Council of Norway.


More information about the meeting (incl. agenda) can be found here:www.notur.no/news/archive/20100203.html


Registration
Register by sending email to sigma@uninett.no before March 5. Please provide name, employer, and any dietary requirements (food allergy).
The meeting is free of charge and open to everyone. Hotel and travel expenses are covered by the participants. 
 


Confirmed speakers are:

Paul Gibbon, Head of division "Computational Science", Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany. Title TBA.
Mats Hamrud, European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK. Title TBA.
Mats Carlsson, UiO. "Future needs in eInfrastructure in Astrophysics."
Morten Hjorth-Jensen, UiO. "HPC needs for computational quantum mechanics."
Hans-Petter Langtangen & Xing Cai, Simula Research Laboratory. Title TBA.
Farid Ould-Saada, UiO. Title TBA.
Einar Rønquist, NTNU. Title TBA.

Agenda:
09:00 Velkommen / Welcome. Galen Gisler, leder/chair eInfrastructure Scientific Opportunities Panel
09:15 Foredrag / presentations
10:15 Pause
10:45 Foredrag / presentations
12:15 Lunsj
13:15 Foredrag / presentations
14.15 Pause
14:30 Diskusjon / Discussion
15:45 Oppsummering og avslutning av seminaret / Summary and end of seminar
16:00 End
 

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