E-science is computationally intensive science. It is also the type of science that is carried out in highly distributed network environments, or science that uses immense data sets that require grid computing. Examples of this include social simulations, particle physics, earth sciences and bio-informatics.
Locations
Due to the infrastructural requirements, E-science projects are usually managed by large universities, corporations, or governments. Currently the largest focus in E-science is in the United Kingdom, where the term was created by John Taylor, the Director General of the United Kingdom's Office of Science and Technology in 1999. The UK E-Science programme comprises a National e-Science Centre (NeSC) which is managed by the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh with facilities in both cities. There are also regional e-Science centres which support local universities and projects including the Belfast e-Science Centre (BeSC), the Cambridge e-Science Centre (CeSC), the CLRC e-Science Centre (CLRCeSC), e-Science North West (eSNW), the Grid Support Centre (GSC), London e-Science Centre (LeSC), North East Regional e-Science Centre (NEReSC), Oxford e-Science Centre (OeSC), Southampton e-Science Centre (SeSC), and the Welsh e-Science Centre (WeSC).
There are also various centres of excellence and research centres which have a strong impact on e-Science.
United States based initiatives, where cyberinfrastructure is also used to define e-Science projects, are centered at the nation's supercomputing centers including the Pittsburg Supercomputing Center, NCSA, Argonne National Lab, SDSC, LBNL, SLAC, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and elsewhere.
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