e-Science Overview

The Welsh e-Science Centre (WeSC) is hosted by the Cardiff School of Computer Science at Cardiff University. WeSC was established as part of the UK national e-Science initiative, and has received additional funding from the Welsh Development Agency, and Cardiff University.

Emerging distributed collaborative scientific enterprises require desktop access to very large data collections, very large-scale computing resources, and high performance visualization. The Welsh e-Science Centre at Cardiff University will develop, implement, and deploy applications to utilise and create e-Science technologies, infrastructure, and services. An essential feature of many of these services is that they will be used collaboratively, and by geographically distributed researchers in fields such as engineering, physics, earth science, bio-science, and chemistry. In particular, the Centre will promote the collaborative development of large-scale multi-disciplinary applications, and the immersive visualization of large multi-dimensional data sets.