The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Topics at Data and Compute: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
GCRI · In development · service level R0
The Data and Compute topics are the eight subject dossiers of its field, among them public interest data infrastructure, high performance computing, and cloud and edge systems. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. It is not a regulator, and it does not certify, license or approve; its findings carry their methods and uncertainty.
The topics run from public-interest data infrastructure and computing capacity through chips, rights and reproducibility to the energy and water costs of compute and access to research infrastructure.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Official statistics | Statistics produced by national statistical systems under professional and legal standards. |
| Capability computing | Using a large share of a supercomputer for a single, very large job. |
| Hyperscale cloud | Very large cloud platforms operated by a few providers across many regions. |
| GPU | A graphics processing unit, widely used as an accelerator for simulation and AI. |
| Five Safes | A framework for safe data access covering safe projects, people, settings, data and outputs. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
Dataspaces and interoperable evidence.
TopicHPC/GPU workloads and scientific compute.
TopicHybrid, local and sovereign computing options.
TopicCritical compute hardware and supply chains.
TopicData access, licencing and privacy.
TopicPipelines, models and experiment provenance.
TopicInfrastructure impacts and sustainability.
TopicCost and governance of scientific facilities.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.