Towards Sustainable European Cyberinfrastructure
Dr. Steven Newhouse, EGEE Technical Director, Interim EGI.eu Director
Session Abstract
The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study is an effort to develop a sustainable grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA).
As a result of the work from the EGI Design Study, the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) was created to deliver a production quality federation of distributed computing resources to support scientific communities within the European Research Area. Based in Amsterdam, EGI.eu was established to facilitate user support, new technology deployments, secure integrated organizations and infrastructure policy development between it's members - the European National Grid activities and European research organizations.
The presentation will highlight the experience and issues that have brought European stakeholders in cyberinfrastructure together. They will talk about the proposed support of the Integrated Sustainable Pan-European Infrastructure for Researchers in Europe, known as the FP7 EGI-InSPIRE project. Additionally, they will examine the role of other planned European Cyberinfrastructure projects, and the links required around the world to build a global e-infrastructure for the European Research Area.
Speaker Information
Steven Newhouse is currently the Technical Director of the Enabling Grids for e-Science (EGEE) and the Project Director of the proposed EGI-InSPIRE project.
Previously, he worked as a Program Manager in the High Performance Computing group in the Windows Server division at Microsoft, USA, where he managed access to the Windows Computer Cluster Server product from non-Windows environments; primarily through the Open Grid Forum's (OGF) High Performance Computing Basic Profile (HPCBP) specification where he is currently chair of the OGF Board of Directors.
Before starting at Microsoft in 2007, he was Director of the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK), and on the management or supervisory boards of several major centres and projects within the UK e-Science programme.
Previously, he was the Sun Lecturer in e-Science in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London and Technical Director of the London e-Science Centre (LeSC), also based at Imperial, where he did his early research into the modelling of underwater acoustics using high performance computing resources
