King's e-Research

e-Research is a group that is focused on providing King’s College London's researchers with infrastructure and support for conducting research using software development, computational and data analysis methods.

Getting support

For support enquiries on any of the topics doumented on this site email e-research@kcl.ac.uk. Our support hours are 10:00 to 16:00 Monday to Friday.

When publishing your work…

For research that has made use of CREATE, please see the Acknowledging page.

King's CREATE

King's Computational Research, Engineering and Technology Environment (CREATE) is a tightly integrated ecosystem of research computing infrastructure hosted by King’s College London.

System	Status	Description
CREATE Cloud	Live	a private cloud platform to provide flexible and scalable hosting environments, allowing researchers greater control over their own research computing resources using virtual machines
CREATE HPC (High Performance Computing)	Live	A compute cluster with CPU and GPU nodes, fast network interconnects and shared storage, for large scale simulations and data analytics
CREATE RDS (Research Data Storage)	Live	A very large, highly resilient storage area for longer term curation of research data
CREATE TRE (Trusted Research Environment)	Live (long onboarding times expected due to demand)	Tightly controlled project areas making use of Cloud and HPC resources to process sensitive datasets (e.g. clinical PIID) complying with NHS Digital audit standards (DSPT)
CREATE Web	Live	A self-service web hosting platform for static content (HTML/CSS/JS) and WordPress sites