Rupert Ford
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Research interests
I am a Research Fellow in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, working in the Centre For Novel Computing (CNC). My interests include performance engineering, performance steering and flexible frameworks for model coupling. I am lucky to have had a long relationship with the Met Office and as a result most of my current work is grounded in Earth System Modelling.Consultancy
I have consulted for Fujitsu, The Met Office, Dell, Sharc and Atmos International.Software
I am a principle architect and developer of the BFG Coupling software. I have developed software which is in use at the Met Office, NAg (in their parallel library), British Aerospace and Sharc.Current Projects
- ISENES : Developing infrastructure for European Earth System Models
- ERMITAGE : Improving the integration of Impact Models
- GungHo! : Investigating the scalability of Atmospheric Dynamics Models
Selected Publications
Earth System Modelling - Volume 5 Tools for Configuring, Building and Running Models Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences Eds: Ford, R., Riley, G., Budich, R., Redler, R. November 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23931-1
The Bespoke Framework Generator, R.W. Ford and G.D. Riley, in: Earth System Modelling - Volume 3 Coupling Software and Strategies Series: SpringerBriefs in Earth System Sciences Eds: Valcke, Sophie, Redler, René, Budich, Reinhard October 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-23359-3
Eric Guilyardi, V. Balaji, Sarah Callaghan, Cecelia DeLuca, Gerry Devine, Sebastien Denvil, Rupert Ford, Charlotte Pascoe, Michael Lautenschlager, Bryan Lawrence, Lois Steenman-Clark, Sophie Valcke, The CMIP5 model and simulation documentation: a new standard for climate modelling metadata. CLIVAR Exchanges Special Issue No. 56, Vol. 16, No.2, pp. 42-46, May 2011 (http://www.clivar.org/publications/exchanges/Exchanges_56.pdf)
S. A. Callaghan, A. Treshansky, M. Moine, E. Guilyardi, A. Alias, V. Balaji, R. Bojariu, A. S. Cofiño, S. Denvil, M. Elkington, R. Ford, M. Kolaninski, M. Lautenschlager, B. Lawrence, L. Steenman-Clark, S. Valcke The METAFOR project: preserving data through metadata standards for climate models and simulations, INTL-DPIF '10: Proceedings of the 1st International Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework Symposium, Dresden, Germany, 2010, ACM, New York, NY, USA, isbn: 978-1-4503-0110-7, DOI: 10.1145/2039263.2039269
C. W. Armstrong, R. W. Ford and G. D. Riley, Coupling integrated Earth System Model components with BFG2, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 21 No. 6, pp. 767--791, 2009, DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1348.
R. Warren, S. de la Nava Santos, N.W. Arnell, M. Bane, T. Barker, C. Barton, R. Ford, H.M. Fussel, Robin K.S. Hankin, Rupert Klein, C. Linstead, J. Kohler, T.D. Mitchell, T.J. Osborn, H. Pan, S.C.B. Raper, G. Riley, H.J. Schellnhuber, S. Winne, D. Anderson. Development and illustrative outputs of the Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS), a multi-institutional modular integrated assessment approach for modelling climate change. In J. Environmental Modelling and Software, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 2008. ISSN: 1364-8152.
C.W. Armstrong, R.W. Ford, T.L. Freeman and G.D. Riley, NOAH, A CSP-based language for describing the behaviour of coupled models. Software Practice and Experience 38, pp. 135--159, 2008 DOI: 10.1002/spe.822
R.W. Ford, G.D.Riley and C.W. Armstrong, Efficient Coupling of Iterative Models. In proc. Twelfth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology. ECMWF, Reading, England, 30th October - 3rd November 2006. World Scientific, pp. 178--190, 2007.
R.W. Ford, G.D. Riley, M.K. Bane, C.W. Armstrong and T.L. Freeman, 'GCF: A General Coupling Framework', Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience 18(2), pp. 163--181, 2006.
R. Delgado-Buscalioni, P.V. Coveney, G.D. Riley and R.W. Ford, 'Hybrid Molecular-Continuum Models under the General Coupling Framework' Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A, 363(1833), pp. 1975--1985, 2005.
C.W. Armstrong, R.W. Ford, J.R. Gurd, M. Lujan, K.R. Mayes and G.D. Riley, 'Performance Control of Scientific Coupled Models in Grid Environments' Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 17(2--4), pp. 259--295, 2005
R.W. Ford and G.D. Riley, Towards the Flexible Composition and Deployment of Coupled Models. In proc. Tenth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology; Realizing TeraComputing. ECMWF, Reading, England, 4-8 November 2002. World Scientific, pp. 189--195, 2003.
David J. Haglin and Rupert W. Ford
The Message-Minimizing Load Redistribution Problem
J.UCS, 7(4), April 2001. pp. 291-306.
R. W. Ford and D. I. A. Poll,
A Parallel Processing Approach to Transition Prediction for
Laminar Flow Control System Design.
Scientific Programming, 4 3 1995.
Contact info
Email: rupert@manchester.ac.ukPhone: +44 61 275 5724
Fax: +44 61 275 6204
Address:
Room 2.50,
Kilburn Building,
School of Computer Science,
The University of Manchester,
Oxford Road,
Manchester M13 9PL,
U.K.