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A T H O M E : G R I D - I R E L A N D Led by TCD, UCC, NUIG 1999/2000 Over HEAnet - the network/ISP for higher education “Virtual Organisations” - differently managed projects Cosmo-GRID

H O W C O U L D D C U B E N E F I T ? Numerical Simulation of Stellar Jets - T. Downes, School of Maths NCPST - Centre for Plasma Science: Plasma Simulations NICB / CA - Complex Systems, growth, evolution Data intensive: human genome + dna data processing

R E S O U R C E I N T E G R A T I O N Físchlár Video system, sensor equipment (NCSR), database servers Different resources - potential for easier research collaboration

W H A T W E A L R E A D Y H A V E Rogue clusters in different departments: eeng, chemistry, physics, computing Some work on application software, T. Downes etc. The networking backbone! (HEAnet and CSD) … and a phenomenal number of desktop computers

W H A T W E C O U L D H A V E A ‘coalition of the willing’, ala webgroup, admins, helpdesk To publicize and learn about DCU’s computing resources To develop software that takes advantage (nice for class projects) To construct & learn about new computing resources (ie, our cluster)

E N A B L I N G T E C H N O L O G Y University research remains the same – do what we’re best at More economical use of our current resources is what we’re after A more organised HPC infrastructure could open doors