e-Science Central

About e-Science Central

Posted by Simon on November 29, 2012 Comments Off

e-Science Central is a Cloud based Platform for Data Analysis. It supports secure storage and versioning of data, audit and provenance logs and processing of data using workflows. Workflows are composed of blocks which can be written in Java, R, …

Provenance Component Published

Posted by Simon on January 11, 2012 Comments Off

The e-Science Central team presented the first version of the Workflow Provenance Component at WORKS 11. The component allows viewing of the history of an artifact (data, image, etc.) in terms of which workflow blocks and data artifacts have been …

Best Paper at IEEE Cloud Com 2011

Posted by Simon on January 11, 2012 Comments Off

We are delighted to announce that Paul Watson’s paper A Multi-Level Security Model for Partitioning Workflows over Federated Clouds has been awarded the Best Paper award at the IEEE Cloud Com 2011.

Cloud Futures 2011

Posted by Simon on June 8, 2011 Comments Off

Paul Watson presented e-Science Central at the Microsoft Cloud Futures conference in Redmond last week. “The Cloud Futures Workshop series brings together thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of cloud computing across a variety of …

Maven Workflow Blocks

Posted by Simon on May 18, 2011 Comments Off

It is now possible to create workflow blocks from an Apache Maven project using your favourite IDE and then upload them automatically into e-Science Central. These instructions assume that you’re comfortable running command line applications but there are equivalent methods …

Developing Workflow Blocks for e-Science Central

Posted by Simon on March 16, 2011 Comments Off

Workflow blocks in e-Science Central can currently be written in Java, R or Octave. To get started, log in and click on the Code link in e-Science Central then follow the wizard to create R, Octave or Javascript blocks. There …