Stig Skelboe appointed Project Leader for ESS Data Management Centre
Today, Stig Skelboe has been appointed as Project Leader for the ESS Data Management, Computing and Software Centre in Copenhagen, part of the planned European science facility ESS.
Professor Stig Skelboe will be in charge of planning the building-up of the ESS Data Management, Computing and Software Centre (ESS DMSC) and producing information on ESS ICT needs for the ESS Pre-Construction Phase.
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a pan-European large-scale multi-disciplinary science facility. The main facility will be built in Lund, Sweden, with the main data management capabilities placed in Copenhagen, Denmark. The DMSC will be in charge of handling data from the ESS, perform data analysis, as well as simulations of experiments and instruments and visualisation of experimental data.
- I am pleased to be able to announce today the appointment of Stig Skelboe, says Colin Carlile, Director-General of ESS AB. Data management and high performance computing are core businesses of large research facilities, and the DMSC will be a vital element in making the future science at ESS world-leading.
- The appointment of a project leader for the DMSC is also an important manifestation of the joint Danish-Swedish co-hosting of the ESS, and a symbol for the cross-border nature of international science facilities.
- I am proud to be able to lead the the building-up of the ESS DMSC. High performance computing is becoming an increasingly important tool for many scientific disciplines, and this is arguably the most interesting project within this area in Scandinavia today, says Stig Skelboe.
Stig Skelboe will be stationed at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He is formely the Head of the Department of Computer Science at Copenhagen University. As Scientific Director at UNI-C in the mid-1990s he was in charge of developing Danish high performance computing capabilities for research and education.
For more information, please contact:
Marianne Ekdahl, Communications Officer Press. E-mail marianne.ekdahl@esss.se, Tel. 46-(0)46-222 83 89
Roger Eriksson, Communications Officer. E-mail roger.eriksson@esss.se, Tel. 46-(0)46-222 67 18
ESS IN SHORT:
The European Spallation Source – the next generation facility for materials research and life science
The European Spallation Source (ESS) will be a multi-disciplinary research laboratory based on the world’s most powerful neutron source. ESS can be likened to a large microscope, where neutrons are used instead of light to study materials – ranging from polymers and pharmaceuticals to membranes and molecules – to gain knowledge about their structure and function. ESS will be up to 100 times better than existing facilities, opening up new possibilities for researchers in for example health, environment, climate, energy, transport sciences and cultural heritage.
ESS is an intergovernmental project resembling CERN in Geneva, and it will be built in Lund in southern Scandinavia. At least sixteen European countries will take part in the construction, financing and operation of the ESS. Sweden and Denmark will co-host the ESS and cover 50 percent of the 1,4 B€ investment costs and 20 percent of the operating costs together with the Nordic and Baltic states.
The European Spallation Source ESS AB is a public limited company, today owned by the Swedish State. ESS AB is planning the future international ESS organisation. Building is expected to start around 2013, the first neutrons to be produced in 2019 and the facility to be fully operational around 2025.
ESS will support a user community of 5000 researchers and will have great strategic importance for the development of the European Research Area. Near by there will be complementary laboratories, such as the synchrotron MAX IV in Lund and XFEL and PETRAIII in Hamburg.
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