UKCRIC Event: Discover DAFNI: High-performance computing for national infrastructure

Date: 27 March 2023
Time: 10:30- 16:00 GMT
Location: Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0QX

Find out how to increase your research impact, collaborate with other modellers, and secure the legacy of your work by using DAFNI, a hybrid high-performance computing platform.

Hear about the Building a Secure and Resilient World Grant Theme and learn how you can apply for grant funding through DAFNI. Meet the team behind DAFNI’s development and have a tour of the Data Centre where DAFNI is situated.

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DAFNI Centre of Excellence for Resilient Societies Funding call Info Event

Date: 16 March 2023
Time: 14:00- 15:30 GMT
Location: Online Event

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) hosted a virtual town hall meeting to introduce the funding opportunity, to support a new Centre of Excellence for Resilient Infrastructure Analysis on DAFNI. This is part of the UKRI Building a Secure and Resilient World programme.

DAFNI Conference 2022 – Environmental Impacts

Date: 5 July 2022
Time: 9:30- 17:00 GMT
Location: Hybrid Event

We shared all the research that our community is involved in, particularly looking at climate adaptation and developing a greater understanding of how we might influence the path of climate change.

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DAFNI Roadshow UCL – Urban model OpenMOLE now on DAFNI

Date: 22 Noviembre 2021
Time: 14:00- 17:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

At this event attendees learnt more about DAFNI, OpenMOLE and the importance of model integration; workflow engines to construct complex models by coupling modular components. 

Digital Twins – How can they help the South West to decarbonise?

Virtual Event, 12 July 2021 – organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers

Could the use of Digital Twins aid and accelerate the net zero transition in South West England?

During this exciting workshop participants had the opportunity to discuss how digital representations of the physical world might unlock new opportunities for the decarbonisation of infrastructure in the region.

DAFNI Conference 2021 – Official launch event

Virtual Event, 5 July 2021

Following 4 years of intense development effort, we were delighted to unveil to the wider community the exciting advancements within the facility and how it will relate to and revolutionise infrastructure business and research nationwide.

Scotland DAFNI Roadshow 

Date: 18 May 2021
Time: 14:00- 17:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

Join this event to see live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research.

DAFNI Roadshow – Focus on Transport Research

Date: 24 March 2021
Time: 09:00- 11:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event showed examples of how members of the Universities Transport Studies and other transport researchers can make use of DAFNI.

DAFNI Digital Twin Roadshow at University of Sheffield

Date: 26 February 2021
Time: 10:00- 13:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event showed an overview of the digital twin research at the University of Sheffield and DAFNI plans for accommodating and connecting full-scale digital twins.

Cristian Genes, University of Sheffield and DAFNI champion, talked about his Transport Digital Twin on DAFNI 

UKCRIC & DAFNI Roadshow at Southampton University

Date: 8 February 2021
Time: 14:00- 17:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

Atttendees leanr about UKCRIC’s vision to deliver world-class infrastructure, and saw live demos of the DAFNI platform, discovering tools and capabilities to support your research.

DAFNI Roadshow at Cranfield University

Date: 4 February 2021
Time: 09:30- 12:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event showed live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research at Cranfield University.

NISMOD meets DAFNI

Date: 21 January 2020
Time: 10:00 – 13:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event showed how to use the National Infrastructure Systems Model (NISMOD) on DAFNI.

Participants had the opportunity to see demos of NISMOD workflows on DAFNI.

DAFNI Roadshow at Imperial College London

Date: 15 December 2020
Time: 14:30 – 17:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

At this event we had the opportunity to see presentations on Imperial’s Infrastructure schools and live demos of the DAFNI platform tools: data discovery and model upload.

Digital Twins and Data Ontologies

Date: 2 December 2020
Time: 09:30 – 12:30 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event shared exciting work on Digital Twins and Ontologies as well as enabling facilities and ways of thinking. It covered the ontology work from CDBB Information Management Framework, and the findings of the DAFNI champions team working on Infrastructures Research Ontologies.

The event counted with the participation of ARUP, Costain, CDBB, UCL and DAFNI.

DAFNI Roadshow at Oxford University

Date: 30 September 2020
Time: 12:00 – 14:00 GMT
Location: Virtual Event

This event showed live demos of the DAFNI platform and how it could support research at Oxford University. 

DAFNI Virtual Roadshow – UCL Researchers

Date: 26th June 2020
Location: Zoom Webinar

Demonstrating DAFNI’s tools and capabilities to researchers across UCL’s departments.

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DAFNI and Sheffield Urban Observatory Hackathon

Date: 11 – 13 February 2020
Location: Venue TBC, Sheffield

We will be taking data from the Sheffield Urban Observatory and running analytics on it as part of a collaboration between DAFNI and the researchers in Sheffield.

UKCRIC Observatory and DAFNI integration workshop

Date: 3 December 2019
Location: Friends House, London

The workshop will identify opportunities for collaboration between infrastructure observatories and the modelling capabilities in DAFNI.

DAFNI Conference 2019

Date: 10 – 11 June 2019
Location: The Royal Society, London

Two day event

Day One – showcase event comprising of a series of keynote talks from representatives who are influencers and policy makers within the UK’s National Infrastructure sector. The afternoon will see a series of workshops demonstrating results from DAFNI pilot projects and showcasing DAFNI’s capability.

Day Two – will be a ‘Hackathon’ aimed at academics and developers to get involved in using DAFNI to understand how to visualise data and models.

If you would be interested in sponsoring this event, please contact Marion Samler, DAFNI Partnerships Manager, Email: marion.samler@stfc.ac.uk or call Marion directly on (01235) 567217.

DAFNI Seminar Edinburgh: Real Time Flood Modelling on DAFNI

Date: 22 March 2019
Location: Royal Observatory, Edinburgh

A seminar to provide an opportunity to interact with a new flood resilience capability developed during a recent collaboration between DAFNI (Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) and the Newcastle University Urban Observatory and Spatial Analytics and Modelling Lab. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities.

This is an important milestone for both DAFNI and Newcastle University and will demonstrate for the first time integration of the UKCRIC Observatory programme with DAFNI to support infrastructure resilience modelling.

DAFNI Seminar London: Real Time Flood Modelling on DAFNI

Date: 11 March 2019
Location: Geovation Centre, London

A seminar to provide an opportunity to interact with a new flood resilience capability developed during a recent collaboration between DAFNI (Data Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) and the Newcastle University Urban Observatory and Spatial Analytics and Modelling Lab. DAFNI is funded by EPSRC as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities.

This is an important milestone for both DAFNI and Newcastle University and will demonstrate for the first time integration of the UKCRIC Observatory programme with DAFNI to support infrastructure resilience modelling.