News: ScotGrid Celebrates 7 Years of Success [2009-06-25] - News Item

We aim to establish a Scottish Grid Service (ScotGrid) in support of research throughout Scotland in a wide variety of disciplines. The goal is to establish a framework to expand research capacity in Scottish HEIs through an integrated programme of high-quality, computing-enabled research. This goal will be met through development of subject-specific portals, training and outreach for client disciplines, and the technical underpinning for accounting and management of the grid infrastructure. Together with SRIF and research grant funded equipment, this will achieve a robust computing infrastructure to support Scottish research and increase its competitiveness internationally. ScotGrid will become the key element for distributed computing provision in current and future Scottish research. It will offer wider access to computing resources across the UK and internationally.

The ScotGrid project, currently starting phase 2, is engaging with a diverse range of academic groups in an effort to provide a cutting edge grid based computing environment for researchers in Scotland. ScotGrid is in contact with research communities as diverse as: Arts and Humanities; Rural Policy Support; Atomic and Molecular Diagnostic Processes in Plasmas; Thermodynamics and Fluid Engineering; Computational Chemistry; Nuclear and Particle Physics.