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2. Education,Training & Awareness Raising at Welsh e-Science Centre John Oliver – Commercial Coordinator

3. Introduction Welsh e-Science Centre Mission/Role Role of Commercial Coordinator WeSC Marketing Strategy Training Course Portfolio Awareness Raising Activities Future Plans Summary

4. Welsh e-Science Centre Mission To promote e-Science research and development in a broad area encompassing Wales To encourage the exploitation of e-Science ICT technologies To pursue research focusing in the following areas: –data and knowledge management and interoperation of heterogeneous distributed information resources. –problem-solving environments for scientific and engineering applications. –distributed visualization for immersive and collaborative applications.

5. Role in practice Infrastructure Provision –UK e-Science Grid, Welsh BioGrid, Computational Electromagnetics Grid Research & Technology Development –Middleware –Application exemplars Outreach –Awareness –Collaborative research –Technology transfer

6. Outreach – Commercial Coordinator Liaise extensively with companies in Wales Promote activities of WeSC & Grid technologies to academia & commerce to encourage: - take up & use of Grid - collaborative research - technology transfer John Oliver john.oliver@wesc.ac.uk

7. WeSC Marketing Strategy Markets identified: Academia – HEIs FEIs Research Institutes, Techniums Commercial/Industrial – Large, UK,Multinational, SMEs Innovation & Entrepreneurship – VCs, Techniums,RDAs, Business Angels, VC advisors

8. WeSC Marketing Plan - Mechanisms - specialist topics - run by WeSC technology specialists - to transfer necessary technical skills to partners TRAINING COURSES

9. WeSC Marketing Plan - Mechanisms - bi-monthy - by invitation - aimed at commerce and academia - overviews of e-Science/WeSC - live demonstrations - major vendor input - networking AWARENESS EVENTS

10. WeSC Marketing Plan - Mechanisms - provide speakers for Grid topics - furnish an exhibtion stand - live demonstrations of technology - promotional literature/materials EXHIBITIONS/TRADE SHOWS

11. WeSC Training Portfolio 8 Courses currently, grouped: Service Oriented Computing – OR & CH Visualization – IN HPC – RP Grid - JG

12. Training Portfolio Dr Omer Rana O.F.Rana@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Autonomic Computing Mobile Access to Grid Infrastructure Service Oriented Computing

13. Training Portfolio Autonomic Computing ½ day covering Autonomic Computing vision from IBM Mobile Access to Grid Infrastructure ½ day introducing emergence of dynamic networks, their applications, types & architectures Service Oriented Computing ½ day introducing SOC and how the approach may be useful to construct service oriented Grids

14. Training Portfolio Dr Yan Huang Yan.Huang@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Jini Technology in building a service oriented Grid System - 2 ½ hours - introduces Jini network technology and Web services. Describes a service oriented Grid system based on both technologies

15. Training Portfolio Dr Ieuan Nicholas I.A.Nicholas@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Introduction to Immersive Visualisation - ½ day - A practical guide to rules governing effective visualization and use of tools at WeSC including demonstrations

16. Training Portfolio Dr Roger Philp R.N.Philp@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Fortran 90 Workshop High Performance Computing with MPI Workshop

17. Training Portfolio Fortran 90 Workshop – 2 days Intended for those seeking to gain experience in Fortran 90 Includes lectures and lab sessions with traing examples & exercises High Performance Computing with MPI Workshop - 2 days To gain experience in HPC and Parallel Computing as well as MPI, HPC platforms, tools & build systems

18. Training Portfolio Jonathan Giddy J.P.Giddy@cs.cardiff.ac.uk Grid Programming using Globus & Java - 2 days - Intro to Grid Computing & Globus - Globus Architecture - Getting Started with Globus - Globus components - Exposed functionality - Underlying Technology - Practical use

19. e-Science & Grid Awareness AWARENESS EVENTS e-Science Overview Commercial Benefits Role of WeSC Live demonstrations e-Science product vendor offerings THEMES 6 – Knowledge = Power – Cardiff 1 – UWCM – Medicine & Healthcare 1 – Swansea – Visualization 1 – Bangor – Knowledge Sharing

20. Exhibtions/Trade Shows 4th Teleregions Conference – Cardiff March 2003 Tomorrows Wales – Llandudno Nov 2003 The Future Show – Newport Dec 2003 Wrexham Science Festival March 2004 Technology Wales 2004 – Newport May 2004

21. Other Events Cardiff University – Innovation Marketplace WDA International Workshop – Apr 04 Viznet Wales Event – Sept 04 WIS Trailer Events

22. Marketing Collateral Brochures WeSC Computing on Demand Globus Research Review Project Case Studies Project Poster handouts WeSC Newsletter Display & promotional WeSC Pens WeSC Coffee Mugs Popup display Straplines Grid -the next generation Internet The Internet Bytes Back

23. Future Plans Condor Pool Training Course – JG Training courses as a source of revenue Awareness raising - new themes How to get started on the Grid, Collaborative Working Increased use of Access Grid as a promotional tool

24. Summary Welsh e-Science Centre Mission/Role Role of Commercial Coordinator WeSC Marketing Strategy Training Course Portfolio Awareness Raising Activities Future Plans Summary