The Scientific Computing Department (SCD) of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) provides computational science support for a number of scientific communities funded by EPSRC, MRC, and BBSRC, and organised in Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs) and High End Computing (HEC) Consortia. This programme of work is carried out by staff at the Daresbury and Rutherford Appleton Laboratories. The nature of the support provided differs depending on the needs of the communities:

• Development of theory, algorithms, and software: This is a key element of support for many current projects, resulting in long-term, continued expansion and updating of the software programs. It may include the consolidation of existing codes into a more sustainable community software package
• User support and training: This includes individual support and training as well as help to organise and conduct events such as workshops, summer schools and study weekends. Support for Centres of Doctoral Training is also offered
• Outreach and promotion of computational science and engineering activities: facilitate the exchange of expertise, and tools, reaching out to new communities, including experimentalists and industry, nationally and world-wide
• Collaboration on scientific projects: working together with scientists in the communities to advance scientific research and help nurture projects and develop new opportunities
• Porting, optimisation, and benchmarking on local and national computing platforms including High Performance Computing (HPC) and new architectures: evaluation of new hardware and software technologies
• Maintenance, distribution, license management, dissemination and demonstration of software
• Management of scientific data: This includes activities such as, for example, the development of visualisation and workflow management tools, database and archiving, and verification and validation activities
• Co-ordinate and nurture existing and new communities, from practical tasks such as organising community meetings, to representing the communities in strategic activities in the UK Research Councils and abroad.

At six-mo​nthly intervals the Director of CoSeC - Dr Barbara Montanari - collects the highlights of the activities ​carried out by the CCP and HEC communities supported by CoSeC; the most recent collection is downloadable as the following pdf:  CoSeC-Full Activities Summary Nov20 to May21.pdf     ​

Contact

For discussion and further information, please contact Barbara Montanari.​​​​

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