MyGrid - Directly Supporting the e-Scientist

Project Dates: From October 2001 to June 2005

Project Leader: Prof. Paul Watson

Staff: Prof. Neil Wipat, Prof. Pete Lee

Sponsors: EPSRC

To date, Grid development has focused on the basic issues of storage, computation and resource management needed to make a global scientific community's information and tools accessible in a high performance environment. However, from an e-Science viewpoint, the purpose of the Grid is to deliver a collaborative and supportive environment that allows geographically distributed scientists to achieve research goals more effectively. MyGrid aims to design, develop and demonstrate higher level functionalities over an existing Grid infrastructure that support scientists in making use of complex distributed resources.