CCLRC

www.cclrc.ac.uk

The Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCLRC) is an independent, non-departmental public body of the UK’s Office of Science and Technology. The CCLRC has two distinct arms - a Head Office responsible for policy, planning and finance, and a range of business units responsible to the CCLRC and other Research Councils for delivering high quality science and facilities for the academic and industrial research communities.

Within the ESLEA project, High Energy Physics (ATLAS) and e-Health sub-projects are working closely with the CCLRC research facility at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. The High Performance Computing and e-Health sub-projects are utilising equipment and expertise at CCLRC’s Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire.

Lancaster University

www.lancaster.ac.uk

Lancaster University was recently declared a Centre of Excellence in eScience and has made a considerable investment in Dark Fibre networking by constructing a consortium of public service institutions throughout the North West. Eight lambdas are reserved for the use of the consortium. The University hosts several major HPC resources, and has recently won additional facilities under NorthWest Grid and will be investing in a £0.5M upgrade of the HEP computing farm. It is involved in GridPP (and GridPP-2), the UK core eScience programme.

Physics Department

Within the ESLEA project, the Physics Department at Lancaster University is running the High Energy Physics (ATLAS) sub-project.

NeSC

www.nesc.ac.uk

The National e-Science Centre (NeSC), part of the School of Physics at The University of Edinburgh, has a wide ranging remit to stimulate the creation of new insights in e-Science and computing science. The Centre also aims to contribute significantly to the international development of e-Science and to ensure that its techniques are rapidly propagated to commerce and industry.

Within ESLEA, NeSC is responsible for central management of the ESLEA project as well as development of Control Plane Software.

University College London

www.ucl.ac.uk

Department of Computer Science

The Networking Group in the Department of Computer Science, lead by Professor Mark Handley, is conducting research into use of high speed data transport protocols for use over UKLight infrastructure. The Networking Group has had a high-profile research activity in Internet communications from 1973 when it became the first node on the Internet (then ARPANET) outside the US.

Department of Physics

The High Energy Physics Group within the Department of Physics is conducting an evaluation of the benefits of UKLight to transfer of CDF data between UCL and Fermilab, USA. The CDF work is headed by Mark Lancaster. The High Energy Physics Group has contributed to the Particle Physics Network Coordinating Committee for many years, involving wide area performance monitoring and associated liaison with SuperJANET.

Centre for Computational Science

The Centre for Computational Science, within UCL’s Chemistry Department, is concerned with many aspects of theoretical and computational science, from chemistry and physics to materials, life sciences and informatics. CCS’s different computational techniques span time and length-scales from the macro-, through the meso- and to the nano- and microscales. The Centre is committed to studying new approaches (e.g. the Grid) and techniques that bridge these scales

Professor Peter Coveney is leading ESLEA’s High Performance Computing work through the RealityGrid, STIMD and SPICE sub-projects.

University of Edinburgh

www.edinburgh.ac.uk

School of Physics

The School of Physics at The University of Edinburgh is a world-class research centre, with a grade-5 RAE rating and the 5th largest body of active researchers in the UK. The School is one of the UK's principal centres for research in Physics & Astronomy.

The School includes the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) and the National e-Science Centre (NeSC). The central management of the ESLEA project and development of control plane software is being conducted by NeSC. However, The School of Physics provides additional engineering support for High Energy Physics (ATLAS) and High Energy Physics (CDF) sub-projects.

University of Manchester

www.manchester.ac.uk

As well as participating in MB-NG, EU DataGrid and DataTAG projects, the University of Manchester has also worked closely with the Network groups at SLAC and Chicago to develop Network Monitoring systems and tools to investigate how end hosts and Gigabit networks interact. They have also been at the forefront of investigations into realising high performance high throughput data transports and have implemented the modified TCP stack described by Sally Floyd.

School of Physics and Astronomy

The School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Manchester includes the Jodrell Bank Observatory (JBO). Manchester and JBO have taken the lead in demonstrating transmission of VLBI data to JIVE in the Netherlands, at speeds of over 500 Mbits/s over the Academic production network in Europe.

Within ESLEA, the School of Physics and Astronomy is involved in the Data Transport Protocol Research, High Energy Physics (ATLAS) and Radio Astronomy (VLBI) sub-projects.

Manchester Computing

Manchester Computing provides a range of computing services to staff and students at the University of Manchester as well as to members of other academic institutions throughout the UK. Manchester Computing are supporting all ESLEA sub-projects where the UKLight links pass through University of Manchester computing facilities, i.e. High Energy Physics (ATLAS), Radio Astronomy, High Performance Computing and e-Health applications. In addition, Manchester Computing has a primary technical role in the High Performance Computing (RealityGrid and SPICE) sub-projects.

University of Oxford

www.oxford.ac.uk

The Oxford e-Science Centre (OeSC) has established a reputation as an application-led e-Science Centre, with a particular focus being placed on applications drawn from the Life Sciences.

OeSC took a lead role on the recent eDiaMoND project which brought together researchers from different disciplines to construct a prototype system consisting of a large federated database of annotated mammograms at four clinical sites within the UK. It also involved development of prototype applications to aid in teaching, detection, diagnosis, and the facilitation of epidemiological studies. The experiences and links from the eDiaMoND project have fed into Oxford's contribution to the ESLEA project

Oxford Comlab

Oxford University Computing Laboratory, within the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Division, is one of the pre-eminent university Computer Science departments in the United Kingdom. Within ESLEA, Oxford Comlab are undertaking the e-Health sub-project.