About and people

The Centre coordinates departmental computing and technical expertise with access to Imperial’s Research Computing Service and national digital research infrastructure. It helps researchers plan computational work, develop robust workflows and move from successful pilots to sustained research programmes.

Our background

Imperial Physics has a long record of contribution and expertise in large-scale and distributed scientific computing, developed through international experiments and UK programmes including the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid, GridPP and IRIS. That experience now supports research across Physics.

Governance

The Centre is overseen by a steering group with representation from all five of the Department's research communities, reporting to the Department of Physics.

Partners

GridPP: through GridPP, Imperial contributes to LondonGrid, one of the UK's four regional Tier-2 centres supporting the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid.

IRIS is a cooperative, community-driven project that develops the digital research infrastructure for STFC-supported science. We host IRIS-funded resources and support IRIS projects.

UKRI/STFC funds the national programmes in which we participate.

The Research Computing Service provides Imperial's University-wide high-performance computing, with which we work closely.

Acknowledging our support

If the Centre's resources or support contributed to your work, please include the following in publications and software, alongside any acknowledgement required by the individual services you used, such as the Research Computing Service acknowledgement.

"This work used resources and support provided by the Centre for Data-Intensive Physics and AI, Imperial College London."