Gold Academic team and industrial involvement
The GOLD project brings together expertise from computing science, chemical engineering, chemistry and business management from
leading academic centres. Industrial participants are the Specialised Organic Chemicals Sector Association (SOCSA, Unisys, a major
software company; Britest; CPACT; and the RDA ONE North East Centres of Excellence in Process Innovation and in Digital Media. This
high level of industry engagement in the GOLD project will ensure that the technologies developed are both meaningful and widely applicable
across a range of business sectors.
The consortium is uniquely positioned to develop the entire lifecycle Grid structure and supporting enabling technologies, and to take on the
roles of clients and providers in a virtual organisation for proof of concept demonstration.
Industrial Involvement
SOCSA (Specialised Organic Chemicals Sector Association)
The business context, domain expertise and field testing will be provided by SOCSA, the
leading UK trade body for the speciality chemicals industry sector comprising 57 member
companies.
Industry requirements for Grid technologies
Shaping, resorcing and validating the industrial demonstrator
Dissemination across chemicals industry
Professor Julian Morris (PI)
Head of School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Newcastle upon
Tyne
Professor Santosh Shrivastava
Aim for Gold – to enable a global competitive advantage for UK chemical industry
Unisys
Unisys is a global IT services organisation with 36,000 staff and a presence in over 110
countries. Their Life Sciences practice focuses on developing integrated solutions to
provide process efficiencies and enable virtual enterprises. Solutions Director, Philip Moore
will be part of the GOLD project steering group.
School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Allen Wright
School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Professor Paul Watson
Architecture design and validation
Technical consultancy on workpackages
NE Region e-Science Centre
Shaping, resorcing and validating the industrial demonstrator
Mr Rob Smith
Software licences
NE Region e-Science Centre
Britest
Professor Peter Ryan
The impact that Grid technologies will have on Business Intensification will be explored
with Britest, a consortium of chemical and pharmaceutical companies with three
internationally recognised university groups, UMIST (Chemical Engineering), Imperial
College (Process Systems Engineering) and Newcastle.
School of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Dr Paul Dunning-Lewis
Management School, University of Lancaster
Business intensification requirements
Professor Elaine Martin
Dissemination across chemicals industry
School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
ONE North East Centres of Excellence
The RDA ONE North East Centre of Excellence for Process Innovation will also support
the demonstration and exploitation of the generic Grid technologies and dynamic virtual
organisation developments through their remit to exploit step-change technologies for
process innovations. The RDA ONE North East Centre of Excellence for Digital Media
(Codeworks) have funded a Regional Grid Testbed facility, hosted by NEReSC, which will
be made available for development and testing of Grid services.
Test bed cluster + additional post doc funding to support technology uptake
Shaping business intensification and lifecycle requirements
CPACT
The Foresight Centre for Process Analytics and Control Technology (CPACT) will also
support the demonstration and exploitation of the generic Grid technologies and dynamic
virtual organisation developments
Skill sets
Dissemination across chemicals industry and its vendors
Project Management
Tools Development
GRID Software
engineering
Experience
Trust and
Security
Lifecycle
Chemical R&D
Business
Intensification
Expertise
Information Management
Support for additional post doc to support technology uptake
Management structure
Paul Lewis
Allen Wright
Julian Morris
Industrial Advisory Panel
Project Steering
Committee
Exploitation
Committee
Santosh
Shirivistava
Peter Ryan
Paul Watson
Project Management Team
Rob Smith
Elaine Martin
Hugo Hiden (RA)
Software Development
Team
Business Research
Team
Chemical R&D Project
Team
WP 2,3,4,5
WP1
WP5
Unisys
SOCSA
Britest