Research Computing Services (RCS) works with a broad range of government, industry, University and other partners.
Many of these partnerships have been long-standing including:
- Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC) - funds DiRAC (Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing), https://www.dirac.ac.uk/. Since 2010 RCS has participated in this federated HPC facility crossing the UK and providing resources to researchers in particle physics, astrophysics and astronomy. DiRAC is a partial funder of the CSD3 facility.
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) - partly funded the CSD3 facility with instructions to provide UK Tier2 HPC resources to ESPRC funded researchers across the UK.
- Cambridge Dell Intel Centre - Funded by Dell and Intel Innovation Lab to design, develop and share with the wider community solutions and systems for HPC, Storage and Big Data analysis. Also provides a benchmarking facility with access to the latest research computing and storage platforms.
- CORE Advantage Limited - University spin-out facilitating industrial access to RCS resources and knowhow.
- WGS10K - project to analyse 10,000 genomes implicated in rare blood diseases. Extensive and long-standing use of RCS resources, managed out of the Department of Haematology.
- GAIA - galaxy mapping project, a dedicated big data cluster running Apache Hadoop operated by RCS on behalf of researchers at the Institute of Astronomy.
- Square Kilometre Array (SKA) - providing computing supporting for this major astronomy project, established to answer key questions in modern astrophysics and cosmology.
- Cancer Research UK (CRUK) - RCS provides hosting service and research computing resources through the Clinical Cloud service.
- Medical Research Council (MRC) - RCS provides managed cluster hosting and research computing services to a number of MRC units associated with the University of Cambridge.
We are providing operational support for managed HPC and Cloud platforms
- Compute and storage resources for the School of Biological Sciences
- Clinical Cloud compute resources for the School of Clinical Medicine
- HPHI OpenStack-based virtual compute resources and storage
- Hadoop Development cluster for use by the Computational Biology Lab and Ouwehand group (Haematology)
- Genomics England (GEL) storage and dedicated compute nodes
- MRC Biostatistics Unit, dedicated storage and CPU/GPU compute nodes
- MRC Epidemiology Unit, dedicated CPU compute nodes
- MRC Cancer Unit HPC consultancy and cluster support
- Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (DTAL) dedicated nodes with local storage
- Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology dedicated compute resources (for Fairen-Jiminez group and the CoMo project)
- Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy dedicated compute nodes (Materials Theory Group, Prof Chris Pickard)
- Department of Engineering dedicated compute nodes (Ding group)
- Department of Zoology dedicated login node
- BRIDGE project dedicated storage (with network upload from Illumina)
- Personalized Breast Cancer project storage (with network upload from Illumina)
- Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, twin standalone managed clusters.