1. G R I D C O M P U T I N G I N D C U K A R L P O D E S T A
N A T I O N A L I N S T I T U T E F O R C E L L U L A R B I O T E C H N O L O G Y

2. G R I D C O M P U T I N G I N C O N T E X T

3. T H E U . S . A . “ T E R A G R I D “

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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)

9. 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