e-Science Support & Development

Data challenges

Scientists face great challenges of producing, processing, storing and archiving an increasing amount of data. Instead of validating a single hypothesis, nowadays scientific discoveries are often done in bulk. Scientific data needs to be produced and processed. Scientific discoveries are made by querying the results.

What is e-Science?

This new way of doing science is called e-Science and relies heavily on High Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures. It involves - often large-scale - collaboration between between experts with different backgrounds. Science has become more interdisciplinary and involves a growing number of individuals, who are working for various organizations. This poses all kinds of challenges.

SARA's e-Science support

SARA’s e-Science team at SARA supports the process of doing e-Science and offers advice, expertise and services to scientists. We provide access to HPC infrastructure, advice on its use and participate in various development projects. Also we are involved in drafting research proposals, project management and work closely together with academic partners and universities.