While much of our current work is focused on Grid technology – in particular Grid middleware - EPCC’s project portfolio covers an enormous range of application areas and technologies. Below are some of our current projects; please use the navigation and category index on the left to explore our archives.
ADMIRE (Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe)
ADMIRE, which is led by EPCC, will accelerate access to, and increase the benefits that can be gained from, data exploitation for the European citizen and economy. It will achieve this by delivering consistent and easy-to-use technology for extracting information and knowledge. To cope with complexity, change and heterogeneity of services, data, and processes, an […]
Read all about the project ADMIRE (Advanced Data Mining and Integration Research for Europe).
BEinGRID
As Grid technologies mature, their relevance to business is increasing dramatically. BEinGRID carried out a series of Business Experiments to demonstrate the benefits of Grid computing. EPCC was involved in two of these: GRID2(B2B) and FilmGrid.
EPCC has added important functionality to its OGSA-DAI middleware in the form of the OGSA-DAI Trigger. This component was […]
BEinGRID Business Experiment BE02: FilmGrid
Film post-production requires collaboration between geographically-distributed companies and individuals. The distribution and management of digital assets (film footage and related data) in current post-production workflows are largely manual, relying heavily on couriers and supervisors. These labour-intensive processes make it difficult to maintain an accurate picture of the status of a production, leading to inefficiencies and […]
Read all about the project BEinGRID Business Experiment BE02: FilmGrid.
BEinGRID Business Experiment BE24: GRID2(B2B)
The GRID2(B2B) BEinGRID Business Experiment provided an efficient, open, reliable and affordable integration architecture that allows companies, especially SMEs, to join existing B2B platforms without changing their legacy information system.
To achieve the automated data interchange, two components were created: a GRID2(B2B) Data Federation Agent and a GRID2(B2B) Data Service. A Configurator component facilitates the deployment […]
Read all about the project BEinGRID Business Experiment BE24: GRID2(B2B).
Data Intensive Research (2010-2011)
EPCC has recently taken delivery of a new machine designed for data-intensive research (DIR). The machine, which has several fast disks connected directly to each node, will be used to address computational use-cases that are traditionally bound by their I/O performance. We are working closely with the Data-Intensive Research Group in Informatics and as part […]
Read all about the project Data Intensive Research (2010-2011).
DEISA
DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) is a consortium of leading national supercomputing centres in Europe aiming to jointly build and operate a distributed terascale supercomputing facility. This objective will be attained by a deep integration - using modern Grid technologies - of existing high end national High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms.
The DEISA partners […]
EPCC launches CUDA research partnership with NVIDIA
EPCC’s pioneering work in the area of GPU computing has gained it the status of NVIDIA CUDA Research Center [1].
Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) were originally designed to display computer graphics, but they have developed into extremely powerful chips capable of handling demanding, general-purpose calculations. However, the GPU architecture is somewhat different to that of the […]
Read all about the project EPCC launches CUDA research partnership with NVIDIA.
EUFORIA
EUFORIA (EU fusion for ITER Applications)is a European-funded project that aims to provide HPC and Grid resources to the European fusion research community. It will provide European fusion scientists with the simulation modelling tools and platforms that they will need to obtain experimental time on ITER.
EPCC is involved in three areas of work in […]
FireGrid
The FireGrid cluster is a multidisciplinary collaboration investigating next-generation emergency response systems.
FireGrid’s mission is
to establish a cross-disciplinary collaborative community to pursue fundamental research for developing real time emergency response systems, using the Grid beginning with fire emergencies.
EPCC’s role is to provide expertise on high-performance computing for simulation and modelling.
More information can be […]
Grid-SAFE
The Grid-SAFE project was tasked with developing a software framework to support
accounting, reporting and usage monitoring, and resource management on advanced
computing facilities. The project, funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee
(JISC), was based on extending the EPCC SAFE software system that currently provides
this functionality for UK national HPC service, HECToR.
The software framework produced by the […]
HPC-Europa2 Transnational access visitor programme
HPC-Europa2 is a multi-disciplinary visitor programme. It enables researchers working in any eligible country in Europe to carry out a collaborative research visit of up to 3 months´ duration in any other eligible country, and to gain access to some of the most powerful high-performance computing facilities in Europe.
HPC-Europa2 Transnational access offers:
- Access to an […]
Read all about the project HPC-Europa2 Transnational access visitor programme.
INWA
INWA - Informing Business & Regional Policy : Grid-enabled fusion of global data and local knowledge
The INWA project has been using existing Grid technologies to allow researchers to analyse commercial data located at sites in the UK, Australia. Recently the project has been extended to include a site in China.
The project is funded by […]
ITI CBM Programme
The £4.75m 3 year ITI Techmedia Condition-Based Monitoring (CBM) Programme uses sensors and network technology to develop a condition-based monitoring platform with applications across a range of industries.
The programme’s initial focus is on the commercial farming sector, where the technology platform under development is designed to enable behavioural and physiological monitoring of beef […]
Maxwell - the FHPCA Supercomputer
EPCC is a founding member of the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance (FHPCA).
The FHPCA develops high-performance computing solutions using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to deliver new levels of performance into the technical computing market.
EPCC managed the construction of a 64-FPGA Supercomputer for the Alliance, a machine that demonstrates true FPGA-to-FPGA parallel computing. Our approach […]
Read all about the project Maxwell - the FHPCA Supercomputer.
OGSA-DAI
OGSA-DAI is developing a framework for the access, management and integration of distributed, heterogeneous data resources. It is fully-customisable allowing it to be tailored for the data access, translation, integration, management and security requirements of specific communities, projects and businesses.
Since 2002, OGSA-DAI has been successfully used to devise novel data management solutions in areas as […]
OGSA-DAI Trigger
The OGSA-DAI Trigger component was developed in BEinGRID and validated by the GRID2(B2B) project. It provides a mechanism to notify an OGSA-DAI server when a table in an SQL database has had its rows modified. It then executes a stored OGSA-DAI workflow to perform an action based on the notification. The Trigger also […]
OHM Surveys
OHM Surveys plc supplies CSEM technology and services.
Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) imaging is a rapidly developing technology in the global oil industry. It has been applied in a range of geological environments. The method uses a high powered source to transmit a low frequency electromagnetic field through the seafloor to an array of receivers.
By analysing […]
OMII-UK
OMII-UK is an open-source organisation that empowers the UK research community by providing software for use in all disciplines of research. OMII-UK’s mission is to provide software, support and sustainability to the UK research community. All of OMII-UK’s software is free, open source and fully supported.
OMII-UK helps new users to get started with e-Research, provides […]
PRACE
PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) is intended to make preparations for the creation of a persistent pan-European HPC service, based on an infrastructure of around 4–5 Petaflop-scale supercomputers. EPCC has a leading role in investigating software for Petaflop/s systems.
There are PRACE partners in most European countries who work on activities ranging from […]
QCDGrid
Since 2002, software engineers at EPCC have been developing a scientific data infrastructure to manage the large volumes (hundreds of Terabytes) of data produced by the UKQCD collaboration (UK Quantum Chromodynamics). To fulfil the UKQCD’s requirements, we have developed a Grid application called DiGS, which streamlines and automates the administration of large volumes of scientific […]
Reality Grid
The main RealityGrid site is http://www.realitygrid.org/
The RealityGrid project is concerned with the development of
state-of-the-art computational methods to study condensed matter
systems. In particular, the project is focused on the use of, and
connections between, high performance computing, grid computing, and
visualisation. Ultimately, it is of great importance that these
resources and methods can be used efficiently to enhance scientific
productivity.
The […]
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Massive computing systems will be essential to Europe’s future competitiveness in science, engineering and business. Top systems are now reaching the Petaflop barrier, and the new challenge is to understand how to implement applications to meet the Exaflop target. Multicore chips are already here, but over the next decade they will grow to several hundreds […]
Our previous projects are available to view in our project archive.