1. Mining the Milky Way A new role for IBM in Astrophysics Melvin Hoare School of Physics and Astronomy University of Leeds Michael Lowe Technical Sales Manager STG Gary Fuller School of Physics and Astronomy University of Manchester

2. Context EU 7 th Framework Programme € 4.7 billion budget to train young researchers Broaden their scientific and generic skills Joint research partnerships between academia and industry

3. VISUGAL FP7 Proposal Astronomers New surveys of the Milky Way Computer scientists Data mining and visual analytics + How stars and planets are formed New 3D picture of our Galaxy 

4. Star and Planet Formation Disks around young stars form planetary systems But near massive stars they can get ‘burned’

5. Our Galaxy Let us find out what our Galaxy really looks like

6. VISUGAL Members (Michael Lowe)

7. VISUGAL Methodology Train 15 highly educated and motivated young researchers recruited worldwide Host workshops for the astronomical community Training includes technical and soft skills Industrial participation ensures trainees have right skills for future

8. Proposed IBM Participation Confirm cell mainframe as appropriate project infrastructure Host a researcher at IBM laboratory in Europe Provide training in technical and soft skills

9. Cell Mainframe Potentially one of the first installations in UK Hosted at University of Manchester for all network partners Ideally suited to large data mining and visualisation projects Cell I/O and Network z Cell Appliance DB2 & File z/OS z Linux z PCIe IB Federated System Hypervisors

10. Hosting Researcher IBM recruits a researcher 2 year project to develop software of major benefit to astronomical community Directed by Bruce Elmegreen (IBM Research, NY), expert in star formation Costs covered by EU Salary € 53 000 p.a. gross € 14 400 researcher expenses € 14 400 host expenses € 8 200 overheads

11. Technical Skills Training Cell programming DB2 for Linux Commercial data mining Commercial visualisation Commercial exploitation –Delivered by IBM guest lecturers in person and via webcast

12. Soft Skills Training Leadership Management Communication –Again delivered by IBM guest lecturers in person and via webcast

13. Proposal Timeline Agreement to supply technology Agreement to host postdoctoral researcher Agreement on the skills training Letter from IBM stating commitment to above Submission deadline 2 September 2008 Project start: October 2009 Project end: September 2013

14. Benefit to the Proposal IBM participation will bring: –The necessary industrial linkage –Innovation and leading edge technology –Expert delivery of complementary skills –Further involvement of world-class brand in the EU FP7 programme

15. Benefits to IBM IBM trains the next generation IBM places its technology at the heart of a major European project IBM helps to set mankind’s origins in context

16. Thank you for your time “We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden”