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Scientific research is increasingly carried out by communities of researchers that span disciplines, laboratories, organizations and national boundaries. These activities involve geographically distributed and heterogeneous resources such as computational systems, scientific instruments, databases, sensors, software components, networks, and people. Such large-scale and enhanced scientific endeavours are carried out via collaborations on a global scale in which information and computing technology plays a vital role and is thus popularly termed as e-Science.
The term Grid computing has emerged as one of the key computing paradigms that enable the creation and management of Internet-based utility computing infrastructure, called Cyber-infrastructure, for realization of e-Science and e-Business at the global level. Many national and international projects around the world have been initiated to carry out research and innovation activities that transform the vision of e-Science and Grid computing into reality. The Schools of Computing Science and Health and Social Science and Arts have reconsidered this major international development and believe that it is vital that the University plays a proactive role in developing this area within the University. We both have staff working in technical areas which are highly relevant to various forms of e-Science, such as the analysis of large data sets, data mining, imaging, bio analysis and computational modelling.
The new Universities e-Science Grid computing resource offers an excellent platform for state-of-the-art research and project work. There are a wide range of opportunities that exist within the University to develop e-Science that will be launched, these include Bio Modelling and Informatics, e-Sports-Science, e-Psychology (Cognitive Modelling, for example), e-Social-Science (also termed Computational Sociology) e-Environmental to name only a few.
The initial intention is to develop and provision expertise in this area in order to build internal interdepartmental network.
CECA, pronounced ‘SeeKa’ is Centre for e-Science, Collaboration and Application; it is an unofficial re-branding of the grid computing facilities here at Middlesex and represents the shift Middlesex is taking to actively promote and use digital applications to assist in research and teaching.
Middlesex is officially part of the and London e-Science centres and is a registered certificate operator for the and NGS . Our initial aim was to donate our resources and become permanent affiliates of the NGS but this effort has been placed on hold until a full review of the NGS funding budget is reviewed post April 2011.