Grid and Pervasive Computing Group

Grid computing is about large scale distributed computation, large scale data and large scale collaborations - applied to solving large scale problems. It is the enabling infrastructure for exciting new developments across various subject domains including science, engineering and medicine. Grid computing enables us to tackle problems by bringing together distributed resources, to be used cooperatively to solve problems which may require an enormous amount of computing power.

Pervasive computing (also known as "ubiquitous" or "ambient") is about distributed computing devices in the physical world, such as personal devices, wearable computers, devices embedded in everyday objects and sensors in the environment - it is about both the devices and the infrastructures needed to support pervasive computing applications. Both Grid and Pervasive computing share many computer science research challenges, requiring coordinated behaviour within large scale distributed systems.

The Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC) Group has a wide portfolio of projects funding by government, companies and the European Union. These projects span the Department, including the IT Innovation Centre and the Centre for Pervasive Computing in the Environment.

Research Topics

• Service-based Grid and Pervasive computing
• Engineering of Grid middleware and applications
• Pervasive computing in e-Science applications
• Application of Semantic Web technologies to Grid and Pervasive Computing
• Management of intrusiveness by pervasive computing devices
• Real time collaborative systems - linking smart spaces
• Integration of Digital and Physical worlds
• Advanced Specialization and Analysis for Pervasive Systems
• Peer to Peer computing mdoels
• Sensors and Sensor networks
• IPv6 deployment and transition, ad hoc networking
• Pervasive information fabric and Knowledgeable Devices
• Service description and composition, aaptive distributed resource management
• Programmable networks
• Autonomic Computing, self organisation and programming models for large scale distributed systems
• Simulation for large scale distributed systems

Research Projects

Grid Computing

Pervasive Computing and Networks