The Mission

The collaboration is the handiwork of Drs. Mike Griffiths and Deniz Savas of White Rose and Dr. D. E. (Steve) Stevenson of Clemson. Our goal is to enhance each organization's capability to conduct computational science (e-science) and expand educational capabilities.

• The two organizations will research ways to take advantage of the time difference between England and the East Coast.
• We will engage researchers in social networking to produce virtual organization support.
• We will develop academic programs, starting with an MS degree, that makes use of all possibilities at the different universities
• Does not just mean STEM.
• Includes pre-university studies

The White Rose Grid

The White Rose Grid project operates under the auspices of the White Rose University Consortium,  which is an affiliation of the three Yorkshire Universities of Leeds, Sheffield, and York and Universities. This is a collaborative venture between the White Rose Universities and its IT partners: Esteem Systems, Sun Microsystems, and Streamline Computing.  The project has also received funding from the  UK e-Science Core Program,  Esteem Systems, and the White Rose Universities. 

The White Rose/SC3 collaboration in primarily interested in cyberinfrastructure (known as e-science) and in distance learning (e-learning), and a comprehensive list of Grid activities is available.

South Carolina Computing Consortium

The South Carolina Computing Consortium (SC3) is a partnership of the major research institutions in the state of South Carolina. The mission of SC3 is to deploy and showcase cyberinfrastructure resources to enhance and enable research, education, outreach and economic development in South Carolina. The  institutions are 

• Clemson University

• University of South Carolina

• Savannah River National Lab

• Hollings Marine Lab

• Medical University of South Carolina

• College of Charleston

Clemson Computing and Information Technology (CCIT) provides cyberinfrastructure resources and high performance computing capabilities through its Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration (CITI) group. Clemson is a member of the Open Science Grid (OSG) and a member of the InCommon Federation.

CITI's mission objectives are to develop

• An advanced knowledge infrastructure through integration of high performance computing and networks, data perceptualization and visualization, storage architecture and middleware.
• A well-established, highly successful group of faculty and technical staff with an international reputation for leading research in areas such as high performance computing applications, high throughput computing, high performance networking, data access and interpretation, including visualization, and software environments for cyber-communities.
• A “palmetto cluster” with 46 TF peak performance using 772 nodes; 8 cores per node, which is now 76 TF and ranked 60th (Nov 2008 list) on the Top 500 list;
• A campus grid linking over 1700 machines distributed across 27 locations on campus providing a high throughput computing resource for all faculty and students in need of a loosely coupled computer system to run thousands of jobs. Applications from civil engineering, economics and chemistry have already benefited.

Institute for Modeling and Simulation Applications

The Institute for Modeling and Simulation Applications (IMSA) is an umbrella organization patterned after the Fraunhofer Insitute. The role of IMSA in this collaboration is as liaison between the two organizations. The mission of IMSA is to develop new approaches to education in computational science.