World-class research

Academic areas supported by the Supercomputing Wales facilities include Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, including Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry and Biology; as well as Environmental, E-Science, Health, Medical and the Social Sciences.The Supercomputing Wales Research Software Engineers (RSEs) work with established research teams across

a range of disciplines within the consortium universities to help deliver software engineering solutions and algorithms that harness multi-core computing for data-driven simulation, translating specific research needs into high performance computing applications, either by porting existing code or designing and developing new software from scratch, as appropriate for each specific problem.

Collaboration with Industry

There are a number of routes for collaborative research and innovation projects between research teams within the Supercomputing Wales consortium universities and the private sector to undertake innovative research projects that use the supercomputing facilities, strengthening opportunities for wide reaching impact.This is consistent with the research impact agenda that has emerged from the UK research assessment exercise, which judges the Higher Education sector on the extent to which research impacts on the world beyond academia, with opportunities for Welsh companies to be part of these developments that will benefit the wider economy.

Target research areas for Supercomputing Wales include:

Nano scale materials and advanced engineering
Energy and the environment
Life sciences and health
The Digital Economy

All areas offer significant opportunity for collaboration with industrial partners, potentially increasing employment opportunities and supporting economic regeneration in the knowledge economy in Wales.