A MIDLANDS CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (HPC) SERVING REGIONAL INDUSTRY AND ACADEMIA - 'HPC MIDLANDS'

高性能计算（HPC）技术用于为需要高级计算机能力的挑战性问题提供解决方案。它可以比个人计算机更快地执行模拟数量级，从而将所需时间从数月减少到数天甚至数分钟。高性能计算技术现在已经渗透到我们的日常生活中，例如从金融交易、飞机引擎的设计到动画电影的制作。在拉夫堡大学和莱斯特大学的工程和物理科学领域，HPC迄今已被专门用于应对全球挑战，包括能源、制造、可持续发展、医疗保健、交通。该提案将在中部地区拉夫堡大学和莱斯特大学之间建立新的合作伙伴关系，通过组建HPC提供HPC-中部地区中心的研究人员在中部地区的高等教育机构，并超越，以支持优秀的科学和工程研究。它还将发展其重要的工业相关研究组合，并使工业合作伙伴能够访问其世界一流的设施，以造福英国经济。还将重点关注该地区的小型公司，为他们提供目前无法获得的技术，从而为创新，增长和创造财富提供重要机会。

High performance computing (HPC) technology is used to provide solutions for challenging problems which require advanced computer power. It can perform simulations orders of magnitudes quicker than an individual Personal Computer, resulting in a reduction in the time taken from months to days or even minutes. There is an associated capability to be able to generate, move about, and analyse very large quantities of data exceptionally quickly.High performance computing technology now pervades our everyday lives, for example from financial transactions, the design of aircraft engines, through to animated film production. In the Engineering and Physical Sciences at Loughborough University and the University of Leicester, HPC has to date been specifically used to address global challenges including Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Healthcare, Transport.This proposal will create a new partnership in the Midlands between Loughborough University and the University of Leicester for the delivery of HPC through the formation of the HPC-Midlands Centre to researchers in Higher Education Institutes in the Midlands, and beyond, to support excellent scientific and engineering research. It will also grow its significant portfolio of industrially relevant research and enable industrial partners to access its world-class facilities to benefit the UK economy. There will also be a focus on smaller companies in the region to provide access for them to technologies which are currently beyond their reach, and therefore provide significant opportunities for innovation, growth and wealth creation.