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A cooperative federated community creating digital research infrastructure to support STFC science

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Cutting edge science needs cutting edge digital infrastructure

Scientific experiments, facilities and instruments require digital research infrastructure to manage, store, analyse and simulate their data.

IRIS is working with providers to create and develop the digital research infrastructure needed to allow UKRI to continue to play a leading role in global projects such as the Square Kilometre Array and Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

This infrastructure includes:

  • Compute power to process and simulate data

  • Short & long term data storage

  • Tools to help move and exploit data

  • Developing communities and encouraging knowledge sharing

  • Developing the skills needed for addressing tomorrow’s challenges

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The Scientific Computing Department provides large scale HPC facilities, computing data services and infrastructure at both Daresbury Laboratory and Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
https://stfc.ukri.org/about-us/where-we-work/daresbury-laboratory/scientific-computing-department/
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DiRAC is the integrated supercomputing facility for theoretical modelling and HPC-based research in particle physics, and astrophysics, cosmology, and nuclear physics, all areas in which the UK is world-leading.
https://dirac.ac.uk/
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GridPP is a collaboration of particle physicists and computer scientists from the United Kingdom and CERN. They manage and maintain a distributed computing grid across the UK with the primary aim of providing resources to particle physicists working on the Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN
https://www.gridpp.ac.uk

IRIS helps support science across the globe


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