After intense Europe-wide competition, as part of its Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI), DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) has recently announced the 10 successful UK recipients of 1 million CPU hours each. The DECI scheme has been established to recognise and reward potentially paradigm-shifting research with the tools and infrastructure necessary to transform their respective fields.
The JHI is pleased to note that Professor Brad Gibson, Dr Greg Stinson, and Dr Chris Brook, are amongst those 10 fortunate awardees. Their exciting new programme, entitled Pathways to a Realistic Milky Way (PARMA) builds upon their international leadership in the field of Galactic Archaeology, and ensures unique, cutting-edge, training opportunities for staff and students alike. The PARMA Extreme Computing allocation has been awarded on the MareNostrum Facility at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, from late-2010 to mid-2011.