Bridging the gap between academic research, data analysis and strategic infrastructure planning
The UK's next generation platform to support the development of essential infrastructure services, revolutionising the UK's ability to adapt to a changing climate and technological landscape.
DAFNI
Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure
DAFNI will become the National Platform to satisfy the computational needs in support of data analysis; infrastructure research; and strategic thinking for the UK’s long term planning and investment needs. The platform will support academic research that is aiming to provide the UK with a world leading infrastructure system that is more: efficient, reliable, resilient and affordable. It will achieve this by enabling the research community to conduct research that is able to generate new insights at a higher level of detail and accuracy than ever before.
DAFNI will revolutionise the UK’s ability to remain at the forefront of infrastructure research and innovation. Its state-of-the-art compute power will provide analytics and simulation across all infrastructure domains and its next generation visualisation will provide detailed information to better inform decision making. This will not only provide a greater understanding of the infrastructure needs for services for every household in the UK, but enable greater research into demand and therefore ensuring that the UK has an infrastructure that is both resilient and able to respond to an unpredictable future.
Samuel Chorlton, DAFNI Project Lead
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DAFNI takes pivotal role in shaping the development of Digital Twins
DAFNI team leader, Samuel Chorlton, takes a leading role in shaping the Digital Twin Hub (DT Hub) and will address the many challenges and opportunities it will encounter along the way.
DAFNI developers help form winning team at Geospatial Hackathon
Three members of STFC’s DAFNI development team journeyed to London on 12th February to take part in the two-day ‘Know Your Infrastructure Neighbours Hackathon’ hosted by the Infrastructure Projects Authority (IPA) and Geospatial Commission.
Flooding in our cities – How the Newcastle Urban Observatory is preparing for a rainy day
With extreme weather events on the rise, DAFNI teams up with Newcastle’s Urban Observatory in initiating a new wave of flood defence planning.
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