West of Scotland Supercomputing Centre for Academia and Industry (Capital)

苏格兰西部学术界和工业界超级计算中心（首都）

• 批准号: EP/K000586/1
• 负责人: David Littlejohn
• 金额: $ 165.65万
• 依托单位: University of Strathclyde
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FK000586%2F1
• 关键词: West; Scotland; Supercomputing; Centre; Academia; West; Scotland; Supercomputing; Centre; Academia

This proposal is for an academia-industry High Performance Computing (HPC) regional centre for the West of Scotland that will be based at the University of Strathclyde. The other universities involved in the consortium are Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, West of Scotland and Stirling. The centre will provide a step-change in HPC provision within a community where academia collaborates most effectively with national and international industry, bringing enhanced business competitiveness and innovation opportunities through collaborative research and industrial product design and simulation. A key component of our strategy is to provide a completely integrated package of HPC resource, support and training service locally, so that industries are more directly attracted to where the work is being performed, and can interact with the HPC experts and associated support. Personal interactions are crucial to both the initial engagement and for the development of longer-term strategic partnerships as relationships mature, building trust and confidence in the academic expertise and the benefits derived from access to HPC capability. New, additive university collaborations and industry-university research partnerships in the Manufacturing, Energy, Health Technologies, and Physical Sciences priority areas will be made possible by the centre. Industries and other organisations working in these sectors will benefit from service provision access to the HPC facilities, as well as from opportunities for joint research and development that requires high performance computing. In recognising that a "one size fits all" approach to industrial user engagement will not work, we will adopt a flexible approach to hosting and prioritising one-off/pump priming contract research in the HPC Centre, as well as develop long-lasting collaborative research relationships on a variety of problems. Participation in and by consortia involving other organisations with common interests (e.g. SMEs, and enterprise and economic development agencies) will also be strongly encouraged.The management structure of the centre ensures that key industrial and academic stakeholders on the Advisory Board will be directly involved in steering the centre. The centre will have the agility to modify its access and operational plans, as well as its CPD and outreach activities, to ensure it remains focused on achieving its goals. This agility is not easily achieved in larger operations encumbered by entrenched practices and competing strategic priorities. The Centre's Director and operational team will facilitate cooperation between partner academics and industrialists, ensuring the right skills and expertise are brought to bear on all industrial needs, and that the advantages of high-performance computing for design and innovation are immediately apparent to both new and existing industrial users. The centre's mission is to ensure that the best scientific and engineering research and development is deployed to full societal benefit by working closely with industry and academic partners. The alignment of the Centre to this mission guarantees its sustainability, and the continuing commitment of the host University and its partners will ensure long-term success in delivering its aims and objectives.

该建议是针对苏格兰西部地区的学术界高性能计算（HPC）区域中心，该计算将位于Strathclyde大学。参与财团的其他大学是格拉斯哥，苏格兰西部的格拉斯哥喀里多尼亚人和斯特林。该中心将在一个社区中提供HPC规定的步骤变化，在该社区中，学术界与国家和国际工业最有效合作，通过协作研究以及工业产品设计和仿真，带来了增强的业务竞争力和创新机会。我们策略的关键组成部分是在本地提供完全集成的HPC资源，支持和培训服务的包装，以便行业更直接地吸引着正在执行工作的地方，并可以与HPC专家互动以及相关的支持。个人互动对于最初的参与和发展长期战略伙伴关系的发展至关重要，因为关系成熟，建立对学术专业知识的信任和信心以及获得HPC能力所带来的利益。该中心将使新的，添加剂的大学合作和工业大学的研究合作伙伴关系在制造，能源，健康技术和物理科学优先领域。在这些领域工作的行业和其他组织将受益于对HPC设施的服务提供，以及需要高性能计算的联合研发机会。为了认识到“一项尺寸适合所有”工业用户参与的方法将不起作用，我们将在HPC中心采用灵活的方法来托管和优先考虑一次性/泵启动合同研究，并在各种问题上建立长期的协作研究关系。还将强烈鼓励参与具有共同利益的其他组织（例如中小企业以及企业和经济发展机构）的其他组织的联盟和参与。该中心的管理结构确保顾问委员会的主要工业和学术利益相关者将直接参与转向中心。该中心将具有敏捷性，以修改其访问和运营计划以及CPD和外展活动，以确保其专注于实现其目标。在由根深蒂固的实践和竞争战略优先事项所包围的较大行动中，这种敏捷性并不容易实现。该中心的主任和运营团队将促进合作伙伴学者与工业家之间的合作，并确保将正确的技能和专业知识满足所有工业需求，并且对于新的和现有的工业用户来说，高性能计算的设计和创新的优势都立即显而易见。该中心的使命是确保通过与行业和学术合作伙伴紧密合作，将最佳的科学和工程研究和发展部署为完全社会利益。中心与该任务的一致性确保了其可持续性，而托管大学及其合作伙伴的持续承诺将确保长期成功实现其目标和目标。