The node

The CECAM node at Daresbury Laboratory is hosted by STFC’s Scientific Computing Department (SCD). The computational research interests and capabilities are among others

  • Data intensive computing, Numerical analysis, Cognitive computing, and Software engineering
  • Multiscale modelling in physics, chemistry, materials science, life sciences, and engineering
  • Computational modelling in support of STFC experimental programmes
  • Computational modelling support of of UK scientific community through Collaborative Computational Projects under the Computational Science Centre for Research (CoSeC)
  • Computational Science for facilities
  • Council members: Barbara Montanari & Daan Frenkel
  • Node director: Leon Petit
  • Funded by the Scientific Computing Department of STFC
  • Node established in 2010 (Originally named Hartree node, first node director: Walter Temmerman)
  • Node sponsors 5-10 workshops & hands-on courses per year
  • Events organized by both SCD staff at DL/RAL and/or different Universities in UK