Distributed CSE Support projects
Below is a summary of the Distributed CSE Support projects that were approved at the previous rounds of funding. Individual projects will be listed once they are under contract and/or underway.
Further details of the service can be found here.
Jan'10 deadline
5 proposals for a total of 60 person-months effort were received. 2 proposals for a total of 18 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
Sep'09 deadline
11 proposals for a total of 233 person-months effort were received. 8 proposals for a total of 90 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Prof C Richard Catlow (UCL) | Optimising the performance of the VASP code on HECToR | 12 |
| Dr Jon Hill (Imperial) | Improving load balancing and parallel partitioning in ICOM | 12 |
| Dr Andrew Horsfield (Imperial) | Metal Conquest: efficient simulation of metals on petaflop computers | 12 |
| Dr Gernot Plank (Oxford) | Scalability optimization for largescale in-silico simulations of cardiac bioelectric activity | 8 |
| Dr Ilian Todorov (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Improvements for multi-core performance and domain choice within DL_POLY_3 | 10 |
| Prof Wyn Williams (Edinburgh) | Micromagnetic modelling of naturally occurring magnetic mineral systems | 6 |
June'09 deadline
5 proposals for a total of 74 person-months effort were received. 2 proposals for a total of 12 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Dr Ben Slater (UCL) | Improving the scalability of CP2K on multi-core systems | 6 |
| Mr Terry Sloan (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) | SPRINTing with HECToR | 6 |
Mar'09 deadline
6 proposals for a total of 101 person-months effort were received. 5 proposals for a total of 62 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Prof Dario Alfè (UCL) | Coupling molecular dynamics to CASINO | 18 |
| Prof M Merlyne De Souza (Sheffield) | Improving the performance of GWW | 16 |
| Dr Graham Mann (Leeds) | Global high resolution aerosol simulations for climate and air quality | 4 |
| Dr Colin Roach (UKAEA) | Fast Fourier Transformations for gyrokinetic plasma simulations | 6 |
| Dr Ilian Todorov (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Implementing dynamic load balancing and rigid body dynamics within DL_POLY_3 | 18 |
Dec'08 deadline
12 proposals for a total of 220 person-months effort were received. 8 proposals for a total of 118 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Dr Gary Coleman (Southampton) | Scaling turbulence applications to thousands of cores | 12 |
| Mr Paul Graham (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) | Porting OpenFOAM to HECToR | 6 |
| Dr Sergey Karabasov (Cambridge) | Parallelisation of CABARET for high fidelity aeroacoustic models | 12 |
| Dr Keith Refson (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Implementation of excited-state force calculations for geometry optimisations and molecular dynamics in CASTEP | 12 |
| Prof Kenneth Taylor (Queen's University Belfast) | Implementation of established algorithms to extend HELIUM | 44 |
| Dr Ilian Todorov (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Optimisation of the Input and Output (I/O) in DL_POLY_3 | 6 |
| Dr Martin Turner (Manchester) | Massive Remote Batch Visualizer MRBV | 12 |
| Prof J. C. Vassilicos (Imperial) | Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) of turbulent fluid flows | 16 2/3 |
Aug'08 deadline
5 proposals for a total of 90 person-months effort were received. 3 proposals for a total of 28.5 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Dr Graham Mann(Leeds) | Performance enhancements for the GloMAP aerosol model | 6 |
| Dr Keith Refson (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Hybrid time-dependent density functional theory in CASTEP | 10.5 |
| Dr Jeroen van Hunen (Durham) | Support for multigrid improvements to Citcom | 12 |
Apr'08 deadline
6 proposals for a total of 88 person-months effort were received. 5 proposals for a total of 58 person-months effort were recommended for funding. (One applicant subsequently declined the offer of funding for 12 person-months.)
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Dr Mike Ashworth (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Fluidity-ICOM: High Performance Computing Driven Software Development for Next-Generation Modelling of the Worlds Oceans | 12 |
| Prof David Emerson (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Porting and optimisation of Code_Saturne on HECToR and Black Widow | 18 |
| Dr Alan Gadian (Leeds) | WRF code optimisation for Meso-scale Process Studies (WOMPS) | 10 |
| Dr Ben Slater (UCL) | Improve scalability of domain decomposition within CP2K | 6 |
Jan'08 deadline
8 proposals for a total of 132 person-months effort were received. 5 proposals for a total of 69 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Prof Dario Alfè (UCL) | Improving the parallelisation and adding functionality to the quantum Monte Carlo code CASINO | 12 |
| Prof C Richard Catlow (UCL) | Parallel Algorithms for the efficient massively-parallel tools for the study of catalytic chemistry | 9 |
| Dr Paul Connolly (Manchester) | Cloud and Aerosol Research on Massively-parallel Architectures (CARMA) | 12 |
| Prof Nic Harrison (Imperial) | Parallel algorithms for the materials modelling code CRYSTAL | 24 |
| Dr Martin Plummer (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Daresbury Laboratory) | Future-proof parallelism for the electron-atom scattering codes PRMAT | 12 |
Sep'07 deadline
4 proposals for a total of 54 person-months effort were received. 2 proposals for a total of 14 person-months effort were recommended for funding.
| Principal Investigator | Project title | Effort (months) |
| Dr Andrew Coward (Southampton) | OCEANS 2025 | 6 |
| Dr Keith Refson (Science and Technology Facilities Council - Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) | Enhanced parallel heirarchy for the materials modelling code CASTEP for the UKCP | 8 |
Further information
The HECToR CSE support team can be contacted at hector-helpdesk@nag.co.uk, or via the HECToR Help Desk.
