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The talk begins with a rapid survey of the technological drivers behind
the IT revolution. Increasingly, many areas of science involve access to
distributed computing and data resources, remote access to specialized
and expensive facilities and world-wide collaborations of scientists.
There are many examples of such 'e-Science' endeavours ranging from
bioinformatics and proteomics to collaborative engineering and earth
observation. To enable scientists to maximize the science derived in
such a fashion we will see the emergence of a new IT infrastructure
called the Grid. The Web gave us easy access to html pages and
information: the Grid will give us seamless access to a much wider range
of distributed resources. It will enable us to form transient 'Virtual
Organisations' without compromising security or privacy. The Grid
infrastructure developed to allow interoperability and scalability of
such heterogeneous and dynamic resources has obvious interest for
industry. The talk concludes with some examples of Grid technology in an
industrial context. The UK e-Science Programme is also briefly
described.
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