e-Science and its application: life sciences and finance

• R. H. Perrott Queen's University

Resumo

In 2001, the UK government announced new funding for an initiative known as e-Science. This initiative was challenged with developing a new way of collaborative research using grid as the information utility. The initiative was structured to provide funding to support a national grid infrastructure, tackle large scale scientific research problems and to engage in projects with industry. This paper considers the impact of e-Science in the UK and, in particular, in the finance and life sciences sectors.

Palavras-chave: Finance, Collaboration, Middleware, Large-scale systems, Grid computing, High performance computing, Computer industry, Genomics, Bioinformatics, Biology computing