CCPs bring together the major UK groups in a given field of computational research to tackle large-scale scientific software development projects, maintenance, distribution, training and user support. Alongside extensive international collaborations, hundreds of UK research groups participate in the CCPs.
The CCPs aim to exploit research investment by encouraging widespread use of the software in the long term. They provide a software infrastructure on which important individual research projects can be built. They support both the R&D and exploitation phases of computational research projects. They ensure the development of software that makes optimum use of the range of hardware available to the scientific community, from the desktop to the most powerful national supercomputing facilities. CCPs also help train the community to develop and produce better codes, and to port them and optimise them for high-end facilities.
HECs provide their members and users with access to computing resources on the national High Performance Computing (HPC) service, enabling research in a certain area of science or engineering. As well as providing effective and flexible access to compute resource, the Consortia have also driven the establishment of long-lived communities, expanding the existing user base and facilitating collaboration, software and code development, as well as the sharing of technical knowledge across the UK research base.
Please be aware that acknowledgement of CoSeC resources is crucial to our continued support.All published work supported by CoSeC must carry the following acknowledgment, regardless of whether CoSeC staff are included as authors:“This work made use of computational support by CoSeC, the Computational Science Centre for Research Communities, through <CCPX/HEC Y>"Any CoSeC staff member who made significant contributions should be included as an author and will expect to review the paper before its submission to a journal.
