3D Pathology (2001-2004)
The 3D Pathology project developed technology for quantitative diagnostic pathology and visualisation in 3D. One of the aims was to reveal the true shape of cells using 3D images from light microscopy. Better analysis of the images can assist diagnosis from cell characteristics.
The datasets generated when a 3D image of cell tissue is created are […]
ALMOND (1999)
Under the CALEDONIA initiative, EPCC worked with Scottish SME Almond Engineering, a leading manufacturer of precision-engineered packaging for the food industry. EPCC provided Almond with a software tool to significantly improve and enhance their production planning process.
The primary objective was to produce a software tool to automate and integrate Almond’s production planning process. To do […]
ANSE (1992 - 1994)
In the mid 1990’s EPCC and Rolls Royce worked on a series of projects to develop the ANSE Computational Fluid Dynamics software. ANSE is used by Roll Royce to analyse aircraft parts, in particular engines. Designed initially for use on vector supercomputers, Rolls Royce were interested to see whether ANSE could be adapted to use […]
Arran Aromatics (2001-2002)
Arran Aromatics is one of the UK’s leading luxury toiletries manufacturers and today its range of products can be found in a network of world wide stockists and in the world’s finest hotels.
In a project supported by Scottish Enterprise, EPCC developed a software scheduling system for their manufacturing process.
A typical problem in a business like […]
AUTOSCREEN (2001-2003)
The AUTOSCREEN project was a collaboration between EPCC, a Danish medical imaging company (Visible Diagnostics), Imperial College of Science and several hospitals in Denmark, the Netherlands and Italy. The objective of the project was to demonstrate advanced medical imaging techniques to improve the process of analysing human tissue samples.
The automated system was aimed at improving […]
CALEDONIA
The aim of the CALEDONIA initiative was to increase awareness amongst Scottish SMEs of the benefits of applying high-performance and novel computing solutions to their business challenges. The project focused on the following technologies: process optimisation, automatic inspection and cluster computing.
During the project lifetime EPCC organised 36 awareness-creation seminars and 9 technology demonstrator projects - […]
Calman Technology (2001-2002)
Calman Technology design and manufacture touch panels for a range of application areas including medical equipment, security and household appliances. Every panel is constructed from numerous components with products typically assembled across several departments. Prior to approaching EPCC, Calman scheduled every order by hand, a process that was both meticulous and time consuming.
EPCC’s solution was […]
CAMRA (1997-1999)
EPCC in collaboration with three European hospitals developed the CAMRA (Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Analysis) software based on MR imaging technology.
CAMRA enables the accurate and reproducible measurement of cardiac function which is essential to combating heart disease, one of the leading causes of death in western society.
The results from a clinical trial showed that CAMRA […]
CB Technology (2001-2002)
CB Technology, a Scottish SME, design and manufacture specialist precision contact assemblies and probe cards used for testing semiconductor wafers.
In order to produce the highly accurate results demanded by its customers, CB Technology needed a system that could measure the position of each probe tip, check whether it was out of alignment and, if necessary, […]
CCA Broadband (2003)
CCA (Centre for Customer Awareness Ltd) is a Scottish SME that undertake “mystery audits” with their clients i.e. hotels and retailers, to evaluate levels of customer service. The resulting reports produced are then used by their clients to improve service levels.
For CCA, the process of developing, completing and returning questionnaires has always involved a lot […]
Cheltenham & Gloucester (2001-2002)
The mortgage sector is one of the most competitive markets within the UK financial industry.
For companies like Cheltenham & Gloucester, one of the key ways of increasing market share is to grow their existing business. However, often the first indication that a customer has been lost is when another lender pays off the existing mortgage.
Building […]
Read all about the project Cheltenham & Gloucester (2001-2002).
CODA (1998)
Coda Technologies Ltd, a Scottish SME, develop products for the world’s offshore survey industry with applications such as seafloor mapping, subsea structure inspection, search and recovery, and environmental monitoring. Projects can range from searching for World War II submarines to checking the integrity of pipelines.
With support from the Scottish Enterprise Software Group, EPCC worked with […]
COLOMBO (1998-2000)
The objective of the COLOMBO project was to develop software to assist with bioremediation and therefore to help clean up contamination.
The process of bioremediation uses bacteria and organic agents to convert harmful chemicals in the soil. The harmful chemicals may be present because of old industrial workings, or perhaps from an accidental leakage. It is […]
DEM Solutions
DEM Solutions is a Scottish SME that specialises in discrete element modelling software. Discrete element modelling is a method of simulating the behaviour of granular media - gravel, sand, flour - and is computationally very expensive.
Particles in a simulation can be different sizes, and can bounce off each other and off the “walls” of the […]
Digital Bridges (2001)
Digital Bridges, a Scottish SME and a major player in the mobile phone games marketplace, collects huge amounts of statistics about the way people used its products. To help Digital Bridges make the most of these statistics, EPCC created an automated system that would allow it to mine this data for new business information.
Based on […]
EPS-REO (1996-1997)
EPS (Edinburgh Petroleum Services), a Scottish SME, provided a range of services and software to the upstream oil and gas industry. EPCC worked with EPS to enable them to use HPC to model large oilfield production facilities using their product called Resource Optimiser (ReO).
Firstly, EPCC produced a commercial quality, portable and scalable parallel version […]
EUPHRATES (1992-1994)
The EUPHRATES project was collaboration between Shell UK Exploration and Production and EPCC with the aim of allowing scientists at Shell to perform data processing on state-of-the-art parallel hardware and workstation clusters without the need for them to write parallel programs. The scale of data now in routine use within companies such as Shell is […]
EUTIST-IMV (2000-2003)
EUTIST-IMV was a collaborative project undertaken by EPCC with four other centres in the European Union to demonstrate the success of machine vision in industry. The project consisted of 23 trials of machine vision technology across a wide range of industries, from timber and papermaking through to precision engineering and textiles. The project was a […]
FirstDIG (2003-2004)
The FirstDIG project was a collaboration between First plc and the National e-Science Centre, as represented by EPCC. The project deployed an early implementation of the OGSA Data Access and Integration (OGSA-DAI) services within the First South Yorkshire bus operational environment. The project had two central goals. The […]
FLITE3D (1994 -1997)
EPCC’s FLITE project was a collaboration with the Avro Division of British Aerospace (BAe), Regional Aircraft and BAe’s Sowerby Research Centre (SRC).
FLITE is a Computational Fluid Dynamics code, written and modified by Imperial College, Swansea University and BAe’s SRC. FLITE is used in the design of military and commercial aircraft to analyse the aerodynamics […]
Golden Crumb (2001-2003)
Golden Crumb, a Scottish SME, manufacture a range of coated vegetables and cheese appetisers and starters for the foodservice sector. Customers include many of the UK’s major restaurants, hotels and catering groups.
EPCC worked with Golden Crumb to assess the feasibility of using a machine vision system for grading mushrooms.
One of Golden Crumb’s […]
Gridweaver (2002-2003)
GridWeaver was a Collaboration between EPCC, The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh; and HP Laboratories, Bristol. Funded under the eScience Grid Core Programme with the name HPFabMan, this project investigated and proposed solutions to the problem of automating the configuration and management of Grid computing fabrics.
The goal of this project was to bring together […]
IPO (1997-2000)
IPO is a software application that solves the long-standing manufacturers’ dilemma of balancing efficient work scheduling and customer’s delivery deadlines. Given that a 1% increase in production scheduling is equal to a 10% increase in profits, the system could have enormous benefits for the manufacturing industry.
The key to the success of the system is the […]
Jardine (2001)
Jardine Technology, a Scottish SME, provides advanced simulation technology solutions to asset performance and risk problems in the Oil and Gas, Chemical, Power and Railways industries.
On of Jardine’s most successful solutions is its TRAIL simulation software used by the railway industry. TRAIL allows users to simulate sections of the railway network and compare the availability […]
Kwik-Fit (1998)
Most companies agree that people are their best asset. That’s certainly true of Kwik-Fit, the UK’s leading fast fit and automotive parts replacement specialists, whose skilled mechanics have always been a prominent feature of the company’s marketing campaigns.
It is vital, therefore, that Kwik-Fit has a clear understanding of the effect staffing levels and rotas […]
MASCOT: Safety First (1993-1995)
EPCC worked in collaboration with AEA Technology on a software package called MASCOT used to assess safety based on probability. MASCOT works by assessing many ‘scenarios’ with varying input parameters to predict the likely physical behaviour of a system. AEA were looking to use parallel processing to speed up MASCOT to increase the production of […]
Read all about the project MASCOT: Safety First (1993-1995).
MS.NET-Grid (2003-2004)
The MS.NET Grid Project
With the advent of the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) and its underlying infrastructure - the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) - there was an increasing interest within Grid communities worldwide in Microsoft .NET Web Services technologies and their applicability to Grid services. This collaboration between EPCC; Microsoft Research Limited; and NeSC, […]
NAPSAC and NAMMU: (1993-1995)
Between 1993-1997, EPCC worked in collaboration with AEA Technology to improve the performance of two software packages which are used to model groundwater flow.
Groundwater modelling codes are used in the assessment of safety within the nuclear and other industries where the fidelity of the modelling procedure is of vital importance. The numerical analysis involved leads […]
NextGRID
NextGRID was part of a major initiative to ensure that Europe is a world leader in Grid technology, central to the new knowledge-based economy.
NextGRID’s objectives were to direct developments in Grid technologies to meet the needs of communities beyond the current scientific user groups, in particular business users.
EPCC’s role in NextGRID was twofold:
we led the […]
PARAMICS (1992-1995)
The original PARAMICS project was established under the UK Department of Transport LINK TIO project to convert and upsize an existing microscopic traffic simulator (MICSIM) developed by Edinburgh firm SIAS. It was implemented in a data-parallel form on EPCC’s TMC CM-200.
PARAMICS-MP, funded by DTI/EPSRC and SIAS, converted the data-parallel model to use message passing with […]
PGPGrid (2003-2004)
Pepper’s Ghost Productions Grid
In the commercial world an increasing number of projects are being undertaken by consortia of companies that come together for the lifetime of a contract and then break up on successful completion of the work. This form of working is commonplace in, for instance, the construction and aerospace industries, but also in […]
PROCLIPSE (1993-1995)
The PROCLIPSE project was part of the EUROPORT 2 initiative funded by the European Union. The consortium consisted of GeoQuest, owners of the ECLIPSE 100 code, EPCC and the end-users AGIP and Statoil who supplied data sets with which to benchmark the code. The aims of the project were -
To produce a commercial quality […]
PROSPECT (1999)
The objective of the PROSPECT project was to demonstrate that high-performance computing and networking (HPCN ) could be used to detect faults in carpets as they are produced on the production line. The cost to carpet manufacturers of replacing defective carpets is very high and so detecting faults during production would save considerable money.
The consortium […]
PTLM (1993 -1995)
PTLM is a computational electromagnetic numerical simulation code that uses a large, regular 3D grid to model electromagnetic fields in and around aircraft structures. It is an important design tool for assessing the safety or aircraft, in particular their resilience to lightning strikes.
As PTLM was already parallelised by BAe using the regular domain decomposition model, […]
RANSMB (1996)
The RANSMB (Reynolds Averaged Navier Stokes Multi-block) software is developed and used by the AVRO division of BAe Regional Aircraft for the design of aircraft. It models the flow of air around an aircraft, and is used to test the performance of various aircraft component. In 1995, EPCC worked with HPC experts from AVRO to […]
Red Lemon
Red Lemon Studios, a Scottish SME computer games developer worked with EPCC through the CALEDONIA programme. After attending a CALEDONIA seminar, Red Lemon asked EPCC to reduce bottlenecks in their production processes, in particular to reduce the time required to create animated sequences from individual images (a process known as rendering). With hundreds of thousands […]
SEESAW (2001)
SEESAW is a system for monitoring and optimising the usage of saw machines and sawblades in a sawmill.
SEESAW enables a sawmill to get better information on sawing process and consequently to manage their production process, saw machines and sawblades better. This results in significant gains in the quality and volume of timber sawn, together with […]
SunGrid (2002-2004)
Sun Data and Compute Grids
This project was a collaborative work between EPCC and Sun Microsystems funded by the UK’s DTI/EPSRC e-Science Core Program, through the UK’s National e-Science Centre (NeSC).
The project developed an industry-strength fully Globus-enabled compute and data scheduler based around Grid Engine, Globus and a variety of data technologies.
The […]
TSB (2000)
Data mining and knowledge discovery has a lot to offer companies whose business success depends on monitoring trends in their customer database. TSB worked with EPCC to take advantage of modern data mining techniques, to evaluate and predict trends within their retail banking business. During the project EPCC undertook the following activities -
Evaluated TSB’s […]
UKMO (1991-2001)
EPCC’s long-running collaboration with the UK Met Office focussed on the development of a parallel version of their Unified Model weather forecasting and climate modelling code. A range of message-passing systems was used at different stages of the project, from CHIMP through PVM to the MPI standard.
- Key objectives over the ten-year collaboration included:
The […]
visCity (1997-1998)
Architects use high-quality images and animations to assess the impact of new buildings in urban planning. EPCC was part of an early effort in creating realistic images using a development called visCity. The system made it possible to reduce from weeks to hours the time taken to produce such animations whilst keeping costs to a […]
Weidlinger
Under the CALEDONIA initiative, EPCC worked with Weidlinger Associates, a world-leading structural engineering and applied mechanics consultancy.
Fast and efficient computer modelling software is a crucial aspect of Weidlinger’s business and it has developed a number of high-performance programmes in areas such as structural dynamics, explosive simulation and electro-magnetic modelling.
Our aim was to help Weidlinger harness […]