DAFNI Newsletter – January 2022 | Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure

Happy New Year to our DAFNI community! This year holds exciting things to come.

In this newsletter, we detail our recent event with Dr Juste Raimbault where we discussed OpenMOLE, an open source scientific workflow engine, and research on urban systems dynamics by Denise Pumain of Université Paris, while Romain Reuillon of ISC-PIF Complex Systems Institute / OpenMOLE spoke on OpenMOLE and simulation models.

Development on DAFNI still continues apace and we are developing a number of features which have been principally driven by OpenCLIM and CReDO Project Partners. These will significantly enhance the power of the workflows which we can offer in the modelling service (NIMS) on the platform.

We are very pleased that more users have joined the DAFNI platform in the last 4 weeks and numbers are steadily growing. Details of how to apply for our account are on our new webpage.

Our regular technical training events are available for booking, click here to find out more and secure your date.

Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Project Lead

Events news

DAFNI technical training

Our regular technical training events on DAFNI are available to book via Eventbrite.

2nd March 2022
18th May 2022
20th July 2022
7th September 2022
2nd November 2022

To attend the event you will need experience of entering code through a command line interface, for more information please refer to our booking page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/dafni-31793198351.

Apply for a DAFNI account

Would you like to apply for a DAFNI account?

We have a ‘light-weight’ application account to gain access to DAFNI. To request your account, please go to our DAFNI website.

Apply now

DAFNI Conference, July 2022

We are planning a face-to-face event in Manchester in July 2022 with the theme “Environmental Impacts”. This will be a working conference and we will shortly be inviting papers for Workshops and Poster Presentations from researchers who are developing their research on the DAFNI Platform.

There will also be time during the conference to meet the DAFNI Technical Team and learn more about how to use DAFNI.

News from our central team

Roadshow UCL – Urban model OpenMOLE now on DAFNI

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

Professor Michael Batty, UCL, gave an introduction to models of urban infrastructure and transport: https://youtu.be/56VN0JEtcJ4
Dr Brian Matthews, DAFNI Project Lead, gave an overview of the work of DAFNI: https://youtu.be/xurg_L5oCzU
Dr Juste Raimbault, Research Fellow, UCL demonstrated the MATSim model on DAFNI: https://youtu.be/dAIovAB_2VE
Tom Gowland, DAFNI Technical Lead, demonstrated the DAFNI platform range of tools and workflows: https://youtu.be/KvwGnKVKsOA
Keynote: Denise Pumain, Université de Paris spoke on ‘How validation through model exploration empowers theories of spatial complexity: example of urban systems’: https://youtu.be/-zAdca5fZ2U
Keynote: Romain Reuillon, ISC-PIF Complex Systems Institute OpenMOLE, spoke about ‘a workflow system for the exploration and validation of simulation models’: https://youtu.be/7SLX_TmGFzI

Case study on DAFNI’s role in OpenCLIM

We’re delighted that DAFNI was chosen recently by SES – Science & Engineering South, a hub of world-leading universities, as their featured case study discussing DAFNI’s role in the OpenCLIM (Open Climate Impact Framework) initiative.

Click here to read the case study.

DAFNI Newsletter – January 2022