Partners

The IRIS partners are science activities or resource providers.


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.