Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure - volumes I and II (published June 2009)

Compiled and edited by Peter Coveney and Malcolm P Atkinson

In June 2009, the Royal Society has published a double issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical & Engineering Sciences entitled: Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure – volumes I and II.

The publication contains a selection of papers presented at the UK e-Science All Hands conference, held in Edinburgh between the 8 and 11 September 2008 ( http://www.allhands.org.uk ).

The papers selected for publication can be considered to represent the cutting edge of e-Science, paving the way towards a new, faster, better and different science than has been possible before. The full contents of both volumes are detailed below and overleaf.

Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure I and II comprise issues 1897 and 1898 of Philosophical Transactions A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences and the full content of both issues can be accessed at http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/issues/computational_eScience.xhtml

As a special offer for DEISA members, print issues can be purchased at a discounted price (see the Flyer). To place an order at this price, visit the above URL and, when prompted, enter TA 1897 for Vol 1 and/or TA 1898 for Vol 2.

Volume I

• Introduction: Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure – PV Coveney and MP Atkinson
• Sector and Sphere: the design and implementation of a high-performance data cloud – Y Gu and RL Grossman
• GridPP: the UK grid for particle physics – D Britton, AJ Cass, PEL Clarke, J Coles, DJ Colling, AT Doyle, NI Geddes, JC Gordon, RWL Jones, DP Kelsey, SL Lloyd, RP Middleton, GN Patrick, RA Sansum and SE Pearce
• Louisiana: a model for advancing regional e-Research through cyberinfrastructure – DS Katz, G Allen, R Cortez, C Cruz-Neira, R Gottumukkala, ZD Greenwood, L Guice, S Jha, R Kolluru, T Kosar, L Leger, H Liu, C McMahon, J Nabrzyski, B Rodriguez-Milla, E Seidel, G Speyrer, M Stubblefield, B Voss and S Whittenburg
• Building a scientific data grid with DIGS – MG Beckett, CR Allton, CTH Davies, I Davis, JM Flynn, EJ Grant, RS Hamilton, AC Irving, RD Kenway, RH Ostrowski, JT Perry, JR Swedlow and A Trew
• Flexible selection of heterogeneous and unreliable services in large-scale grids – S Stein, TR Payne and NR Jennings
• Standards-based network monitoring for the grid – J Nowell, K Kavoussanakis, C Palansuriya, M Piotrowski, F Scharinger, P Graham, B Dobrzelecki and A Trew
• The Archaeotools project: faceted classification and natural language processing in an archaeological context – S Jeffrey, J Richards, F Ciravegna, S Waller, S Chapman and Z Zhang
• Integrating Open Grid Services Architecture Data Access and Integration with computational Grid workflows – T Kukla, T Kiss, P Kacsuk and G Terstyanszky
  
• Improved performance control on the Grid – ME Tellier, GD Riley and TL Freeman
  
• Novel submission modes for tightly coupled jobs across distributed resources for reduced time-to-solution – P Chakraborty, S Jha and DS Katz
  
• Real science at the petascale – RS Saksena, B Boghosian, L Fazendeiro, OA Kenway, S Manos, MD Mazzeo, SK Sadiq, JL Suter, D Wright and PV Coveney
  
• Enabling cutting-edge semiconductor simulation through grid technology – D Reid, C Millar, S Roy, G Roy, R Sinnott, G Stewart, G Stewart and A Asenov
• UKQCD software for lattice quantum chromodynamics – PA Boyle, RD Kenway and CM Maynard
  
• Adaptive distributed replica—exchange simulations – A Luckow, S Jha, J Kim, A Merzky and B Schnor
• High-performance computing for Monte Carlo radiotherapy calculations – P Downes, G Yaikhom, JP Giddy, DW Walker, E Spezi and DG Lewis
  

Volume II

• Preface: Crossing boundaries: computational science, e-Science and global e-Infrastructure – PV Coveney and MP Atkinson
  
• Multi-objective optimization of GENIE Earth system models – AR Price, RJ Myerscough, II Voutchkov, R Marsh and SJ Cox
  
• Bringing simulation to engineers in the field: a Web 2.0 approach – R Haines, K Khan and J Brooke
  
• The OptIPuter microscopy demonstrator: enabling science through a transatlantic lightpath – M Ellisman, T Hutton, A Kirkland, A Lin, C Lin, T Molina, S Peltier, R Singh, K Tang, AE Trefethen, DCH Wallom and X Xiong
  
• Adaptation and development of software simulation methodologies for cardiovascular engineering: present and future challenges from an end-user perspective – V Díaz-Zuccarini, AJ Narracott, G Burriesci, C Zervides, D Rafiroiu, D Jones, DR Hose and PV Lawford
  
• Using high-resolution displays for high-resolution cardiac data – C Goodyer, J Hodrien, J Wood, P Kohl and K Brodlie
  
• Federating distributed clinical data for the prediction of adverse hypotensive events – A Stell, R Sinnott, J Jiang, R Donald, I Chambers, G Citerio, P Enblad, B Gregson, T Howells, K Kiening, P Nilsson, A Ragauskas, J Sahuquillo and I Piper
• HIV decision support: from molecule to man – PMA Sloot, PV Coveney, G Ertaylan, V Müller, CA Boucher and M Bubak
• A computational Grid framework for immunological applications – MD Halling-Brown, DS Moss, CE Sansom and AJ Shepherd
  
• Information security: where computer science, economics and psychology meet – R Anderson and T Moore
• Data protection in grid-based multicentric clinical trials: killjoy or confidence-building measure? – M Arning, N Forgó and T Krügel
  
• Engineering design optimization using services and workflows – T Crick, P Dunning, H Kim and J Padget
  
• A user-orientated approach to provenance capture and representation for in silico experiments, explored within the atmospheric chemistry community – CJ Martin, MH Haji, PK Jimack, MJ Pilling and PM Dew
  
• AMUC: Associated Motion capture User Categories – SJ Norman, SEM Lawson, P Olivier, P Watson, AM-A Chan, M Dade-Robertson, P Dunphy, D Green, H Hiden, J Hook and DG Jackson
  
• MoSeS: Modelling and Simulation for e-Social Science – P Townend, J Xu, M Birkin, A Turner and B Wu
  
• Dancing on the Grid: using e-Science tools to extend choreographic research – H Bailey, M Bachler, SB Shum, A Le Blanc, S Popat, A Rowley and M Turner