The Centre for Computational Science

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The CCS is concerned with many aspects of theoretical and computational science, from chemistry and physics to materials, life and biomedical sciences as well as informatics. We explore these domains through high performance, data intensive, supercomputing and distributed (grid/cloud) computing.

Our different computational techniques span time and length-scales from the macro-, through the meso- and to the nano- and microscales. We are committed to studying new approaches and techniques that bridge these scales.



Latest News

  • UCL is now hiring for a Reader or Chair in Computational Physiology, and a Reader or Chair in Biomolecular Modelling across Multi-scales, see the vacancies page for details of these posts and instructions on how to apply.

  • The INBIOMEDvision project (http://www.inbiomedvision.eu) has produced reports on two of the project's think tank sessions. The reports have been requested by the European Commission in order to ascertain the status of the bioinformatics/biomedical informatics interface today within Europe and globally; future funding will benefit from the opportunities and gaps identified within these reports. You can read more and download the reports at the following link. Please contact Nour Shublaq for more information.

  • View the e-Health: Building the UCL Community report and programme, or read our blog post on the UCL events blog

  • Call for Abstracts: The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) will hold the second of the series of VPH Conferences, (VPH 2012), on 18th – 20th September 2012. For more information, please see the website.

  • "Virtual Physiological Human: Forthcoming EU research funding" is an Informative event to be held at Tottenham SB5, University College London, 188 Tottenham Court Road, London, on 12th December 2011 from 13:00 to 16:45 [and networking afterwards]. For more information, please download the flyer

  • October 3rd 2011: £145 million boost to improve Britain’s e-infrastructure was announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. For more information see the following website. The allocation of these sums is in part due to the eSI minitheme and associated activities, outlined below: ...
    • Peter Coveney recently discussed the future of computational science at the Durham University workshop Research Achievement through Advanced Computing. You can view the video through the following link in S3D, you can deactivate the 3D perspective in the video options.
    • The final version of the "Strategy for the UK Research Computing Ecosystem" is now available. A printed version of the Strategy for the UK Research Computing Ecosystem is now available on request (contact h.s.martin "at" ucl.ac.uk).
    • Prof Peter Coveney has accepted an invitation to join an Editorial Board being assembled by UK Government Department of Business, Innovation & Skills to prepare a Report at the behest of the Right Honourable David Willetts MP, Minister for Science & Universities. This report is intended to lay out a grand strategy for e-infrastructure across the whole of UK academe, industry and commerce and aims to influence UK government policy and thinking from the autumn onward. The Board will be chaired by Dominic Tildesley, VP for the Discover Platform at Unilever. Prof Coveney is the sole academic member of the Board, others being drawn from funding agencies and industry.

  • A podcast from the University of Warwick's A Symposium on Time event featuring Peter Coveney has been published online

  • The CCS has been awarded 50,000 node hours at the National Resource for Biomedical Supercomputing (NRBSC), located within the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC). The project is entitled "Unraveling the Structure – Dynamics – Function Relationship of Human Histone Deacetylase 8". See our projects page for more information.

  • The CCS has been awarded 40.5M CPU hrs on PRACE's JUGENE (> 1 petaflops machine in Jülich) between 1 May 2011 and 30 April 2012 for work in the nanomaterials domain, based on the use of large scale molecular dynamics.

  • The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence (VPH NoE) will hold the second of the series of VPH Conferences on 18th – 20th September 2012.



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