Canadian science infrastructure

Recently the Canadian Light Source held an eScience workshop [associated with]
http://www.lightsource.ca/uac/meeting2005/ which brought together
researchers and engineers from of a number of Canadian and international big
science projects. There is growing recognition that networking, data
acquisition, analysis, processing, remote access-control and distribution,
collectively known as cyber-infrastructure, is an essential part of big
science and is also becoming a significant portion of the overall cost of
these projects.  CANARIE has funded a number of cyber-infrastructure
projects under its intelligent infrastructure program to enable researchers
to remotely access and control big science instruments and to allow for
remote acquisition and processing and data from these facilities. SOA -
Service oriented architecture, web services, lightpaths and workflow tools
were the featured technology in these projects. CANARIE in partnership with
NRC also funds and operates common services such as Grid Canada
www.gridcanada.ca which provides scientists with "electronic passport" to
authenticate themselves for access to remote instruments and databases
within Canada and elsewhere in the world. CANARIE is also in discussion with
several other big science groups such as the astronomy community, global
visualization, digital libraries and others to see how common reusable SOA
service may be used in these scientific fields.

for more information see Bill's complete CAnet - news posting Cyber-infrastructure for Big Science in Canada

(As mentioned before, I am now categorizing cyberinfrastructure under e-science.)