Description
The purpose of the UKQCD Collaboration is to procure and jointly exploit computing facilities for lattice field theory calculations whose primary aim is to increase the predictive power of the Standard Model of elementary particle interactions through numerical simulation of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD).
In 2001, UKQCD created a distributed-data repository (often referred to as a data grid) to help in the management of the large volumes of raw data that are generated by lattice QCD calculations. The data grid spans the main institutions of the UKQCD Collaboration, at Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Southampton, and Swansea. It is powered by an application called DiGS, which is developed by a team at EPCC in the University of Edinburgh.