Distributed Computing Programme
Steve J. Andrews and
Martyn F. Guest
HPC programme, Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD,
s.j.andrews@dl.ac.uk and
m.f.guest@dl.ac.uk
Specialist support for EPSRC's grant activity is provided at Daresbury through
the Distributed Computing Programme (DisCo). In the rapidly changing landscape
of computational infrastructure the DisCo team is able to provide data and
advice to grant holders, both current and aspiring - not just on distributed
matters but also on aspects of operating systems, tools and machine performance.
We do this through:
- Comprehensive benchmarking of machines with real parallel applications;
- Workshops and courses including the recent
Linux Summer School and
11th annual Machine Evaluation Workshop;
- An archive providing a software on demand service to the research
community;
- Technical developments through our in-house evaluation of different
cluster architectures;
Furthermore, the team works closely with the HPCI Centre at Daresbury to port
and optimise the performance of applications on Beowulf systems. Our Web site
is currently being re-vamped but remains
at
http://www.cse.clrc.ac.uk/Activity/DISCO.
For questions or more information please contact any member of the team below:
- Dr Martyn Guest
(m.f.guest@dl.ac.uk)
- Dr Steve Andrews
(s.j.andrews@dl.ac.uk)
- Dr Barry Searle
(b.g.searle@dl.ac.uk)
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