The IRIS partners are science activities or resource providers.
- IRIS Partners https://www.iris.ac.uk/about/ and https://www.iris.ac.uk/about/partners/
- The Process by which one can become an IRIS Partner is given here
STFC supports a very diverse set of very data intensive Science Activities. A non-exhaustive list of some of these are:
- ALMA
- UK ALMA Regional Centre http://www.alma.ac.uk/
- ATLAS
- Particle Physics Experiment at the LHC https://home.cern/about/experiments/atlas/
- CCFE
- The UK Atomic Energy Authority and the UK Fusion Programme, Culham Centre for Fusion Energy: http://www.ccfe.ac.uk/ and https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-atomic-energy-authority
- CLF
- The Central Laser Facility https://www.clf.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx
- CMS
- Particle Physics Experiment at the LHC https://home.cern/about/experiments/cms/
- CTA
- The Cherenkov Telescope Array https://www.cta-observatory.ac.uk
- DLS
- DLS Scientific Software Controls and Computation https://www.diamond.ac.uk/
- DUNE
- Next generation neutrino experiment at Fermilab http://www.dunescience.org/
- eMERLIN
- The National Radio Astronomy Facility http://www.e-merlin.ac.uk/
- EUCLID
- ESA Space Mission to map the Dark Universe https://www.euclid-ec.org/
- GAIA https://www.gaia.ac.uk/gaia-uk
Understanding how the Milky way formed and evolved
- ISIS
- The ISIS Neutron and Muon Source https://www.isis.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx
- LHCb
- Particle Physics Experiment at the LHC http://www.lhcb.ac.uk/LHCb-UK/Welcome.html
- LIGO
- LIGO Scientific Collaboration https://www.ligo.org/
- LSST
- The LSST:UK Consortium https://www.lsst.ac.uk/
- Lux-Zeplin
- Dark Matter experiment http://lz.ac.uk/ and http://lz.lbl.gov
- SKA
- The Square Kilometre Array https://unitedkingdom.skatelescope.org/
All of these activities require a substantial “eInfrastructure” – to manage, preserve, analyse and simulate their data. Such eInfrastructure includes both the physical infrastructure (HPC and HTC computing resource, disk and tape storage), and the software infrastructure needed to run upon it to enable science data processing.
This eInfrastructure is provided by several Provider Entities:
- The Ada Lovelace Centre (ALC)
- Supporting the scientific computing needs of large facilities’ users
- DiRAC
- The HPC computing facility for PPAN https://www.dirac.ac.uk/
- GridPP
- The High Throughput Computing (HTC) Grid for Particle Physics in the UK https://www.gridpp.ac.uk
- Hartree Centre
- The Hartree Centre https://www.hartree.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx
- SCD
- The STFC Scientific Computing Department https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/home.aspx
- The DLS Computing Department
- CCFE computing
IRIS is first and foremost a self-formed coordination body consisting of all of these Science Activities and the Provider Entities which together we call its Partners.