Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure to advance UK infrastructure research
About DAFNI
DAFNI is a computing platform which aims to support advanced research into national infrastructure, including transport, water, and energy and city scale modelling. It represents an £8 million investment from the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) to provide world leading infrastructure systems research capabilities and enhance the quality of outputs.
DAFNI aims to improve the efficiency, reliability and sustainability of infrastructure through better sharing and use of data, exploitation of simulation and optimization techniques, and engagement with stakeholders through visualisation. DAFNI allows researchers to scale and integrate their computational models to explore the social and environmental impacts of changes in infrastructure with much greater coverage and detail, and to deposit, share and use data collected in research projects and generated in models.
An overview of DAFNI
How DAFNI is helping to support and transform Infrastructure Research in the UK.
DAFNI Conference 2023
How DAFNI is helping researchers better understand and model the resilience of the UK’s infrastructure network.
DAFNI, providing users with comprehensive computing support for infrastructure research projects
High Throughput Compute capability
DAFNI provides computing resources that enable users to get the most out of their models and data, allowing users to carry out large scale analyses.
Docker Support and Workflow Building
DAFNI fully supports models as docker containers, providing legacy support for models. DAFNI also provides tools that allow users to construct workflows based on models that are available in the DAFNI ecosystem.
Visualisation Support
DAFNI provides users with full notebook support, with R and Python, which allows flexible and easy access to data analysis tools and the straightforward visualisation of data on the platform.
A Community of Infrastructure Research
One of DAFNI’s main goals is to build up a community of infrastructure researchers on the platform, providing users with a rich set of models that can be combined to maximise the utility of modelling on DAFNI.
Interested in collaborating with DAFNI?
If you would be interested in using DAFNI, would like to access Data on DAFNI or involve us in a new project, we would like to hear from you. Please complete your details on the contact form using the link and we will be in contact with you by email.