SCD News and Features

News and Features

British scientist scoops Nobel Prize for revolutionary microscope
4 October 2017 - British biochemist Professor Richard Henderson has today been awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry, alongside Professors Jacques Dubochet and Joachim Frank, for their pioneering work with cool microscope technology.
New UK centre of excellence is formed to strengthen and develop partnerships in software for scientific research
7 September 2017 - A long‐standing partnership between UK research councils took a significant leap forward today with the formation of a new centre of excellence for computational science.
Visitors flock to Open Day
STFC's Scientific Computing Department opened its doors at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) today, to give members of the public a chance to see some of our remarkable computing power and a peek at the visualisation work we do.
Groundbreaking computer software to improve UK resilience to extreme events
A powerful computer system capable of revolutionising the UK’s ability to plan for extreme events, such as flooding and power outages, is being designed as part of a government scheme to make the nation’s infrastructure more resilient.
ISC Conference 2017
STFC's Scientific Computing Department (SCD) and the Hartree Centre were at the ISC High Performance Computing Conference in Frankfurt this month.
Managing Data from the Astra Gemini and Vulcan Lasers
Each time the Central Laser Facility (CLF) fires one of its lasers it generates data which needs to be stored ready for analysis of laser shot trends and behaviour, energy delivered, any variations in the laser beam and a variety of other information.
STFC Hartree Centre receives Royal seal of approval
HRH Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, has officially opened the new Hartree Centre building at Sci-Tech Daresbury.
Hundreds of thousands of images turned into 3D reconstructions in ULTRA fast time
UK researchers have developed a new way of processing hundreds of thousands of images of a rotating object such that they can then turn them into a complete 3D visual reconstruction of the subject with unprecedented detail.
Daresbury Campus the most innovative in the UK
Sci-Tech Daresbury has been named as the science campus making the most significant contribution to innovation in the UK.
SCD News Roundup
Monthly highlights from the Scientific Computing Department
Scientific Computing Department Strategy 2017-2021
Robert Courts MP visits STFC Scientific Computing Department
Oxfordshire MP Robert Courts visited our scientific computing facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) this month, to find out about the educational activities, training opportunities and skilled jobs that we provide.
JET graduates tour SCD Data-Centre
STFC scientific computing graduates hosted a visit earlier this month from graduates based at the Joint European Torus (JET) in the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy.
Happy 5th Birthday JASMIN!
Environmental Data - JASMIN
JASMIN is half super-computer and half data-centre and provides a globally unique platform at STFC, hosted for computing and storing UK and European environmental science data.
EOSC Pilot Launch
Supercomputing Conference 2016
Scientific Computing Department at the world’s largest super-computing conference