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Posted on 5 March 2012

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Build better scientific software - dCSE funding available for UK University/regional HPC codes

Posted by n.chuehong on 5 March 2012 - 5:04pm

University distributed CSE (dCSE) support is an award to support scientific software development to help facilitate UK scientific research. Awards are given to employ specialist help for improving an existing scientific code so that it can make better use of the capabilities of the computing facilities located at regional or university level.

The award is to be used entirely for software development in order to increase code performance and/or utility, and hence to deliver further science. It does not cover scientific research. It does, however, allow the implementation of improved algorithms or methodologies if they have been proven to perform better than existing ones. It can also be used to extend existing codes to solve more complex or general cases of the problems that they address; this should essentially be an implementation exercise with a high probability of success. The overall aim of the dCSE programme is to enable codes to make better use of existing resources, or to scale up to resources which they are currently unable to exploit, which fits very much with the philosophy of the Software Sustainability Institute.

University distributed CSE (dCSE) support is available only to support applications designed to address areas within EPSRC's remit since this call is supported by EPSRC only. In addition, only individuals who are eligible to hold a full EPSRC grant can apply to the University dCSE.

A dCSE support contract will fund up to 12 months of personnel costs, and the project must be completed inside a calendar year. This can cover one or more people working either part- or full-time. Staff can be employed by the applicant's institution, be seconded from the NAG CSE team, or contracted from a suitable third party (e.g. the SSI partners in the case of projects looking at code improvement). The only other eligible costs are for travel to support the project. No funds are available to cover software licenses, machine cycles, or other consumables. Please note that funding will not be provided via a research grant, but through a contract with NAG, who administer this programme on behalf of EPSRC.

The closing date for the current round of applications is the 30th April 2012.

For more details, please visit: http://www.hector.ac.uk/cse/distributedcse/universitydcse/

If you are interested in putting in an application to the University dCSE programme in collaboration with the SSI, please contact info@software.ac.uk in the first instance.

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