Building Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructure at Imperial

About the Event

Research Computing Services (RCS) at Imperial College London is a central IT function tasked with providing and supporting a range of research focussed products to underpin the end to end research lifecycle.
 
High Performance Computing is a key component of the service provided but today data drives the end-to-end research lifecycle from the creation through analysis to publication. To support this data centric view all aspects of research computing need to evolve and mature to ensure that services and products provided enable and enhance research, not just ensure compliance with often different funding body requirements. This has led RCS to adopt and use the FAIR data principles, for example, to drive the data agenda. To set the ambition for Imperial to support at scale the collection, creation, analysis, retention and publication of data. As a STEMB university research computing demand comes from across the university, from individual researchers, groups and in-house facilities. To an extent the whole university can be envisaged as large, multi-faceted research facility with compute and data challenges like many national and international research facilities.
 
This talk addresses the challenge in meeting these wide-ranging research needs, the infrastructure developments in place and underway, and the challenge of sustainability from developing the next generation of research technology professionals through to ensuring Imperial meets its net zero target of 2040.