Virtual Lab for e-Science Towards a new Science Paradigm

1. Virtual Lab for e-ScienceTowards a new Science Paradigm

2. Virtual Lab for e-ScienceTowards 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)

3. Application Specific Part Application ICT Overhead Application Application Application Specific Part Specific Part Specific Part Application ICT • 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 ofdata 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

4. Application Specific Part Application ICT Overhead Application Application Application Specific Part Specific Part Specific Part • On the other hand, e-Scienceis already based on • Grid and other supporting ICT… • ➨To stimulate scientific applications to • adopt e-Science an infrastructure is • needed! Scientific Application • 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

5. Flight Safety Dutch Telescience Application Application Application Specific Part Specific Part Specific Part Application pull Application ICT ICT ICT ICT ICT Overhead Overhead Overhead Application Application Application Application Specific Part Specific Part Specific Part Specific Part e-Science trend applies to many scientific application domains… Medical Imaging Scientific Application Scientific Application Scientific Application

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