At the beginning of 2009, the UK’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council together with the Scottish Funding Council have provided funds to establish this centre as a joint venture of the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and the University of Strathclyde. The total budget of NAIS is £7.5M and the duration of the grant is 5 years, with first spending from August of 2009.
What is the purpose of NAIS? NAIS will bridge the gap between numerical analysts, computer scientists and HPC software developers by developing new systems of code annotation, new compilers and efficient implementations for application-oriented computational methods such as adaptive finite elements, multiscale modelling, molecular simulation and optimization.
Who is involved in NAIS? NAIS is a partnership of the Schools of Mathematics and Informatics and the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) at the University of Edinburgh, and the Departments of Mathematics at Heriot-Watt and Strathclyde Universities. In addition, NAIS will include collaborations with researchers in the sciences and engineering at the three universities, and a network of collaborations with other institutions including, so far, the University of Cambridge, the University of Warwick, and Wales Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science. A programme with CERFACS in Toulouse will provide for joint workshop and training activities. Industrial collaborations are to be established with IBM, Schlumberger, D.E. Shaw, SGI, Cray, Orange/France Telecom, SAS.
An international advisory committee has been established including: