GridPP working with other disciplines
GridPP is developing a UK computing Grid for particle physics, but many of the people and institutions involved in GridPP are also working with other disciplines and industry in related projects. This page details GridPP's current involvement in knowledge exchange and its economic impact.
Older projects are outlined here
eScience Centres
GridPP is part of the UK e-science programme, which was announced in November 2000 and is very involved in the community. As such members of the collaboration hold positions in their local and national eScience centres. These include:- Pete Watkins - Director Midlands eScience Centre
- Andy Parker - Chair of the Advisory Group for the Cambridge eScience Centre (formerly the Director)
- Pete Clarke - Director of the National eScience Centre
- Neil Geddes - Director of the STFC eScience Centre
- John Gordon - Head of Scientific Services at the STFC eScience Centre
- David Colling - Panel member of the Imperial College Internet Centre
Imense (formerly Cambridge Ontology)
Formed in 2004 by researchers at Cambridge University, Cambridge Ontology developed a text driven content based image retrieval technology. The technology can automatically categorise all elements of an image without human tagging or other metadata. In 2006 the company changed its name to Imense Ltd and with assistance from the STFC Mini PIPPS scheme the company were able to run on the GridPP Grid as a test of the software. In late 2007 they received £500,000 from venture capitalists and are currently working with 32 affiliates to provide a search facility across their picture archives.Econophysica
Econophysica is a small company working with researchers at Queen Mary, University of London looking at mathematical models for commodity trading. The work with GridPP received over £40,000 from the STFC Mini PIPPS scheme to look in to the feasibility of their algorithmic trading platform being deployed on the Grid.PEGASUS
The Pegasus project (Particle Physics Engagment with the Grid, A Socio-technical Usability Study) was a group of researchers looking at how GridPP is building and using Grid technologies. It began in May 2006 as a part of a 3 year EPSRC grant which finished up in Mar 2009. The group's advisory panel included Tony Doyle and Steve Lloyd of GridPP.The International Grid Community
Open Grid Forum
The Open Grid Forum (OGF) is a community-initiated forum of thousands of individuals from industry and research developing global standards for grid computing. A number of GridPP members play key roles in the OGF.
European Grid Initiative (EGI)
EGI is the organisation that coordinates the European Grid Infrastructure, based on the federation of individual National Grid Infrastructures (NGI), to support a multi-disciplinary user community.
Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid project (wLCG)
The Worldwide LHC Computing Grid is developing the worldwide computational Grid to deal with the computing demands of the LHC. GridPP is the UK's contribution to the wLCG, contributing resources and people:
- John Gordon - Chair of the wLCG grid deployment board
- Dave Kelsey - Chair of the wLCG Security Group
GridSite
Andrew McNab at the University of Manchester has developed GridSite, to bridge the gap between the web and the Grid. It allows users to identify themselves to websites using an X.509 certificate, so that members of a virtual organization can be can be granted rights to edit and upload web pages, images and binary files. Although it was built initially for the GridPP website, GridSite is open source and available for any website to use current sites include the Grid Operations Centre and Grid Ireland. It has even been installed on a Grid-enabled Sony Playstation 2. JISC have also granted funding to extend GridSite for use by the wider UK academic community.Networking
A number of GridPP researchers, such as Pete Clarke at UCL/Edinburgh and Robin Tasker at Daresbury Laboratory, are involved in the computer science network research community worldwide, playing important roles in projects such as UKLight, MB-NG, and EGEE. They are also working with the UK core e-Science programme and the Global Grid Forum, and with interdisciplinary projects such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry for radio astronomy and developing the Teragyroid project with the UK and US high performance computing community.
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