Consortium
The EESI project consortium has been designed to represent a cross-section of European and international key actors in the field of HPC. The partnership has a deep and broad expertise in all the technological and strategic aspects related to HPC.
The consortium is composed of:
- 2 contractual partners: TOTAL & PRACE
- 29 organizations which act as chairs and vice chairs of Work Packages and tasks
- Around 100 experts who contribute through the project tasks and working groups.
The University of Manchester is a public research university located in Manchester, United Kingdom. In 2007/08, the University of Manchester had over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes and more than 10,000 staff, making it the largest single-site university in the United Kingdom. The University of Manchester had a total income of £787.9 million in 2009/10 (the third-highest of any university in the UK after Cambridge and Oxford), of which £194.6 million was from research grants and contracts. The University of Manchester has a long history and international reputation in High Performance Computing, having developed the first stored memory computer (1947); hosted several HPC facilities including the UK National HPC Service CSAR (1998-2006); run the UK Access Grid Support Centre (2006-2010) and partnered in the provision of the UK National Grid Service.
Personnel involved in EESI
Dr. Lee Margetts, Dr Robin Pinning, as Service Manager, Dr Michael Bane, as Senior Consultant and Ms Mary McDerby, as Consultant.
