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ExCALIBUR Cross-cutting Research Grants Awarded 

The ExCALIBUR programme has defined Cross-cutting Research as a “coordinated approach to address known technology/infrastructure issues which, if resolved will lead to significant progress across a range of exascale software development challenges”.  This combined scientific expertise will push the boundaries of science across a wide range of fields delivering transformational change at the cutting-edge of scientific supercomputing.

The challenge spans many disciplines and research software engineers and scientists will work together to future proof the UK against the fast-moving changes in supercomputer designs.  Cross-cutting Research themes were identified in collaboration with the science community in November 2020. Following calls run by EPSRC and the Met Office earlier in 2021, we are pleased to announce the 14 Cross-cutting Research projects that have been awarded. 

The challenge spans many disciplines and research software engineers and scientists will work together to future proof the UK against the fast-moving changes in supercomputer designs.  Cross-cutting Research themes were identified in collaboration with the science community in November 2020. Following calls run by EPSRC and the Met Office earlier in 2021, we are pleased to announce the 14 Cross-cutting Research projects that have been awarded. 

Containers​Dr Stuart Whitehouse, Met Office
CouplingProfessor Garth Wells, University of Cambridge
Data workflow​Professor Bryan Lawrence, University of Reading​
Domain Specific LanguagesDr Tobias Grosser, University of Edinburgh
Exposing parallelism: Parallel-in-Time​Dr Jemma Shipton, University of Exeter and Imperial College London​
Exposing parallelism: Task Parallelism​Professor Tobias Weinzierl, Durham University and STFC Hartree
Future Computing ParadigmsDr Vivien Kendon, Durham University
Future Computing ParadigmsProfessor Jason McEwen, University College London
Verification, Validation and Uncertainty QuantificationProfessor Peter Challoner, University of Exeter
Verification, Validation and Uncertainty QuantificationProfessor Peter Coveney, University College London
I/O & storage​Professor Bryan Lawrence,   University of Reading, NCAS
I/O Infrastructure investigations​Dr Stuart Whitehouse, Met Office​
Machine learning: optimising numerical methods and augmenting physically based applications​Dr Amy Krause, University of Edinburgh, EPCC​
Workflow Design and Analysis​Dr Stuart Whitehouse, Met Office​

Knowledge exchange was identified as a vital component of achieving the objectives of ExCALIBUR. As such a new role has been included in projects, a Knowledge Exchange Co-ordinator, who is a member of the investigator team that will lead on knowledge exchange activities within their project and participate in the knowledge exchange network within the programme.

Containers, I/O Infrastructure investigations and Workflow Design and Analysis ​Dr Stuart Whitehouse, Met Office
CouplingDr Chris Richardson, University of Cambridge
Data workflow​Dr Fanny Adloff, University of Reading​
Domain Specific LanguagesDr Nick Brown, University of Edinburgh
Exposing parallelism: Parallel-in-Time​Dr Jemma Shipton and Professor Beth Wingate,      University of Exeter ​
Exposing parallelism: Task Parallelism​Dr Marion Weinzierl, Durham University
Future Computing ParadigmsDr John Buckeridge, London South Bank University
Future Computing ParadigmsDr Harpreet Dhanoa and Dr Jeremy Yates, University College London
Verification, Validation and Uncertainty QuantificationDr Derek Groen, Brunel University
Verification, Validation and Uncertainty QuantificationDr James Salter, University of Exeter
I/O & storage​Dr Fanny Adloff, University of Reading, NCAS
I/O Infrastructure investigations​Dr Stuart Whitehouse, Met Office​
Machine learning: optimising numerical methods and augmenting physically based applications​Dr Amy Krause, University of Edinburgh, EPCC​
Workflow Design and Analysis​Dr Anna Roubickova, University of Edinburgh, EPCC​