Supercomputing Case Studies

Supercomputing Support for Research

The Oxford Supercomputing Centre is a University-wide resource that can be used by researchers from all disciplines.

We can help you to develop research proposals and applications and enable you to undertake research that you may not have thought was possible. We are very approachable, just round the corner ( in Keble road) and we are used to dealing with new supercomputer users. Contact us for an initial conversation and see how we can help you.

Case studies below provide an insight into some of the exciting OSC-supported research that has taken place or is in progress. We will be adding to these shortly.

To stimulate thinking about potential research, particularly in the Humanities and Social Sciences we have also added some mini-case studies and links to interesting projects in other universities around the world to illustrate how supercomputing has either been essential to research projects or has enabled ground breaking research. 

We make no claims about the quality of the research - our interest is in the application of supercomputing!

Humanities & Social Sciences mini case studies & links

The Virtual World Heritage Laboratory

The following, more detailed case studies provide information about some of the research, supported by supercomputing,  that has taken place at Oxford. The case studies describe the hardware, software and the support given by OSC staff.

Geography and the Environment - Transport Studies Unit

Case Study  :

 The largest ever study of European airports supported by the Oxford Supercomputing Centre

Biology Case Study :

These case studies are downloadable in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) which may require a viewer to be installed.

If you are interested in using High Performance Computing to support your research please get in contact.