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 […]
EGEE
EGEE is a project that brings together scientists and engineers from more than 90 institutions in 32 countries world-wide to provide a seamless Grid infrastructure for e-Science that is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day. Conceived from the start as a four-year project, the second two-year phase started on 1 April 2006, and is funded by […]
ENACTS
ENACTS officially closed on 31 December 2004, with all the studies successfully completed.
ENACTS was an Infrastructure Co-operation Network bringing together High Performance Computing (HPC) Large Scale Facilities funded by the DGXII’s IHP programme and key user groups. The aim was to evaluate future trends in the way that computational science will be performed and the […]
ePortal (2000-2001)
EPCC’s ePortal Project focused on the Grid concept of “portal computing”. In this model the user interface, rather than user source code, is portable across Grid computing resources. The difficult job of porting application codes between platforms is undertaken, as it should be, by the application provider, not the user.
In the ePortal model, the system […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Java Grande
The Java Grande Forum was a community initiative to promote the use of Java for so-called “Grande” applications. A Grande application was an application with large requirements for any or all of:
Memory
Bandwidth
Processing power
Grande applications included computational science and engineering codes, as well as large-scale database applications and business and financial models. The forum’s aim was […]
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.
ODD-Genes (2003)
OGSA-DAI Demo for Genetics
This project has demonstrated how Grid technologies can be used to enable true e-Science - discoveries that would not otherwise have been achieved without this infrastructure in place.
Professor Peter Ghazal, Director, GTI.
Funded under the UK eScience Programme, this project built upon the results of two others, the Open Grid Services Architecture Data […]
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 […]
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 […]
UKHEC
The UKHEC (UK High End Computing) funding has now ceased. The three centres, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester and the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils’ (CCLRC) Daresbury Laboratory, continue to collaborate and have established a consortium to support UK academic research using high performance computers (HPC).
Growing interest in […]