The call for participationin All Hands Meeting 2008 is now open. Click here for further details.
CCS member Mary-Ann Thyveetil wins Wellcome Image Award 2008. For further details see here.
A paper entitled " Emergence of Undulations and
Determination of Materials Properties in Large-Scale
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Layered Double
Hydroxides" has been publishd in Chem. Mater.
See here
to read more.
A new EPSRC Grant (Reference: EP/F00561X/1) has been awarded
for a joint US-UK project led by Prof P. V. Coveney
entitled GENIUS: Grid Enabled
Neurosurgical Imaging Using Simulation
.
See here
to learn more about GENIUS.
A new EPSRC Grant (Reference: EP/E045111/1) has been awarded
for the project entitled Large Scale Lattice-Boltzmann
Simulation of liquid Crystals to Prof P. V. Coveney
in collaboration with Prof M. E. Cates and
Dr. D. Marenduzzo of the University of Edinburgh".
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RealityGrid: moving the bottleneck out of the hardware and back into the human mind
A major EPSRC grant
has been awarded to a consortium of universities and collaborating institutions
under the U.K. government's initiative on
e-Science.
RealityGrid
(GR/R67699/01
and GR/R67699/02) is one of the six pilot projects funded by this grant.
The main four-year grant for RealityGrid ended on 30 November
2005. RealityGrid continues to be funded as an EPSRC Platform Grant
(EP/C536452/1) through 2009.
Our definition of grid computing is "distributed computing
performed transparently across multiple administrative
domains".
This refers to an ambitious and exciting global effort to
develop an environment in which individual users can access computers,
databases and experimental facilities simply and transparently,
without having to consider where those facilities are located.
Using grid technology to closely couple high throughput experimentation and
visualisation, RealityGrid has led the way in showing
how close we are to realising this new computing paradigm today.
A twin-track approach has been
employed within RealityGrid: a "fast track" used currently
available grid middleware to construct a working grid, while a "deep
track" involved computer science teams in harnessing leading-edge
research to create a robust and flexible problem-solving environment
in which to embed the RealityGrid.
RealityGrid has thus provided a highly flexible and robust computing
infrastructure for supporting the modelling of complex condensed
matter systems, including life science.
The opportunity to exploit exceptionally vast high performance computing
resources linked via grid infrastructure,
coupled to novel methodological paradigms through steering
and visualisation together with use of scalable algorithms, has
led to important scientific results, which would otherwise not have been possible
within the project's lifetime.
Useful information on grid computing can be found on
The Global Grid Forum.
The UK Grid Support Centre
provides support for UK grid applications.
Partners
RealityGrid is a collaboration between distinguished teams of physical
scientists, computer scientists and software engineers.
The collaborating universities, each of which is already exceptionally
well resourced, comprise:
Five of these universities are now UK e-Science Centres:
The collaborating organisations include the
The project also has a strong international dimension, involving
collaborations with several US Universities and National Laboratories
as well as with the US-TeraGrid and European supercomputing centres.
There
is also an International Advisory Board which will ensure the project
is judged against world class standards.
The Principal Investigator on this grant is Professor P.V.
Coveney, Centre for Computational Science, University College
London.
The Programme Management Assistant is
Nilufer Betik (n.betik at ucl.ac.uk). |
