RCS Awarded 2 DECI Grants
RCS has helped the University of Manchester secure around £200,000 worth of CPU time under DECI: the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative. This is equivalent to one Manchester researcher having exclusive access to a modern version of Horace for two years (in terms of annual budget spent on the facility).
One grant was awarded to the Faculty of Life Sciences (FLS) and the other to the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS). Brief details of the projects are as follows:
Building bigger dinosaurs: the mechanics of terrestrial giants, PI Dr William Sellers (FLS), Co-I Dr Lee Margetts (RCS, SEAES)
Extreme Computing for Advanced Methods of Solving Partial Differential Equations, PI Dr Lee Margetts (RCS, SEAES), Co-I Dr Paul Mummery (School of Materials)
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative was launched in May 2005 by the DEISA Consortium, as a way to enhance its impact on science and technology. The main purpose of this initiative is to enable a number of “grand challenge” applications in all areas of science and technology. These leading, ground breaking applications must deal with complex, demanding and innovative simulations that would not be possible without the DEISA infrastructure, and which benefit from the exceptional resources provided by the Consortium. The DEISA applications are expected to have requirements that cannot be fulfilled by the national services alone.