GridPP6 Oxford Staff Grant
Lead Research Organisation:
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Department Name: Oxford Physics (Keble Road)
Abstract
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Organisations
| Description | The GridPP Collaboration is a community of particle physicists and computer scientists based in the United Kingdom and at CERN. The purpose of the collaboration is to manage and oversee the evolution of the computing infrastructure needed to maintain the UK's position as world leaders in particle physics. This is done by using and actively contributing to the development of open source software, applications and middleware needed to power largescale distributed computing for particle physics and beyond. This world leading programme has made major progress in wide ranging areas, understanding the birth, evolution and fate of the Universe, its constituents and the forces between them. |
| Exploitation Route | Grid computing such as the GridPP Collaboration provides a way to bring exceptional computing power to a wide variety of scientific problems. The GridPP computing project provides resources primarily for the LHC (Large Hadron Collider) computing requirements providing infrastructure for particle physics experiments. Additionally the computing capacities of the GridPP are increasingly being used by many non LHC experiments (such as projects funded by the IRIS project www.iris.ac.uk) advancing a wide range of science problems including both other areas of physics and other sciences. Some of the projects utilising GridPP for research outside of particle physics include LSSTC (Astrophysics), ITER (Fusion), PhenoGrid (Theoretical Physics), EPIC (Epidemiology), ENROLLER (language and literature), MoSSaiC (Geography), PRaVDA (Radiotherapy). A longer list of projects supported can be seen on the GridPP website - https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/users/research. |
| Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| URL | https://www.gridpp.ac.uk |
| Description | In addition to the wide range of academic based projects the GridPP supports (www.gridpp.ac.uk/users/research) the GridPP project also provide computing infrastructure to a number of industry orientated projects such as Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (LUCID project), Econophysia, IMENSE, Dell and HP Labs (https://www.gridpp.ac.uk/users/industry). GridPP is part of the UK e-science programme which has been running since 2000 and as such member of the collaboration hold positions in their local and national e-Science centres. The GridPP also works with CERN@school to give students access to computing resources for data analysis, simulation work and introductory coding projects via CERN@school's secondary school projects which give students the opportunity to engage in university-level physics research. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
| Impact Types | Societal |