Daresbury Projects

Active Projects

• VEC: Virtual Engineering Centre - partnership with University of Liverpool

• KCMC: Knowledge Centre for Materials Chemistry

• Accelerator Design - multi-particle physics simulations. Cockcroft Centre collaboration between all NW-GRID partners sites

• MedTEC: Medical Technology Exchange Centre

• NeISS: National Infrastructure for Social Simulation - a new project linking NW-GRID and White Rose Grid

• Unilever work on NW-GRID - partnership with KCMC

• G-R-Toolkit - combining GROWL, AgentX and RMCS into one toolkit. See also Wiki page

• Unified Model Centre of Competency - partnership with IBM and the Met Office

• Accelerator Design - multi-particle physics simulations

• CCP9 - Predicting Properties of New Materials

• CCP1 - Optical Properties of Materials

• GCOMS - Global Coastal Ocean Modelling

• DisCo - EPSRC's Distributed Computing Support Programme/ High End Computing Support Programme DisCo/ HPC)

• Visualisation - focus on visualisation techniques for exploring large data sets from high performance modelling and simulation

• Portals - using Sakai and uPortal for Grid applications and collaboration

Finished Projects

• ESRC e-Infrastructure - developing an e-Infrastructure for Quantitative e-Social Science

• EURACE - European economic policy design

• GROWL - Grid Resources On Workstation Library

• AgentX - developing semantic tools for data interoperability

• RMCS - developing a computational framework using Condor-G

• CCP1 Grid interface

• CCP-ESE - Collaborative Computing Projects E-Science Environment

• ESC - eScience Centre and National Grid Support Centre

• e-Minerals - Environment from the Molecular Level, see also pollution studies

• e-HTPX - an e-Science Resource for High Throughput Structural Biology

• CQeSS - Collaboration for Quantitative e-Social Science - joint project with Lancaster

• Diamond e-Infrastructure - developing an e-Infrastructure for the Diamond Light Source