📋 Tender Overview
Funded Value4688822Funded PeriodApr 19 - Sep 27FunderEPSRCProject StatusActiveProject CategoryTraining GrantProject ReferenceEPS0234451This CDT will train a cohort of 60 students to have the skills and experience that enables them to become leaders in Distributed Algorithms capitalising on Future Computing Systems to move Towards a Data-Driven Future.Commodity Data Science is already pervasive. This motivates todays pressing need for highly-trained data scientists. This CDT will empower tomorrows leaders of data science. The UK and world needs data scientists that can best exploit tomorrows computational resources to harvest the new oil the information present in data.As our graduates careers progress many cored architectures will become increasingly commonplace. We anticipate millions more cores in tomorrows desktops than todays. This core count will challenge the assumption made by current Big Data middleware e.g. Spark and TensorFlow that the details of future computing systems can be decoupled from the development of data science tools and techniques. More specifically it will become imperative that data scientists understand how to design algorithms that can operate effectively in environments where data movement is the key performance bottleneck.To meet this need we will provide training that ensures we generate highly-employable individuals who have both an understanding of the design of future computer hardware as well as an understanding of how and when to flex the algorithmic solutions to best exploit the computational resources that will exist in the future.From the outset the students will be embedded in a computing environment that anticipates the hardware resources that will arrive on their desks after they graduate not the hardware that exists today. The cohort of students provides the critical mass that motivates engagement with internationally-leading supercomputing centres STFCs Hartree Centre is an integral part of the team links we have established with IBM Research in the US will provide students with access to state-of-the-art computing hardware. This anticipation of future computing capability will ensure our graduates are highly employable but also help motivate end-user organisations to engage with the CDT.We have identified such end-user organisations that span two themes defence and security manufacturing. Organisations in these themes are driven by performance demands and efficiency requirements respectively.We will align the training we provide with the needs of the cohort the theme and the individual. Each studentship will have two academic supervisors one aligned with the Future Computing Systems and one aligned with moving Towards a Data-Driven Future and at least one supervisor from a project partner. This supervisory team will co-define the scope of each studentship. Once the high quality student has been selected and recruited
