E-Infrastructure Interconnectivity EPSRC - Chris Taylor

该提案是为建立一个高性能计算中心提供资金，由N8研究伙伴关系共享，N8研究伙伴关系是英格兰北部（达勒姆、兰开斯特、利兹、利物浦、曼彻斯特、纽卡斯尔、谢菲尔德和约克）的研究密集型大学组成的联盟。其目的是支持世界一流的科学和工程研究，这些研究越来越多地利用大规模建模、模拟和大规模数据分析，以及理论和实验。新设施将具有成本效益，因为它将由8所大学共享，而不是每所大学都有一个类似的设施，而且它将使比目前可能的更复杂的模拟和分析能够日常运行。除了支持世界一流的研究外，该设施将引起工业界的极大兴趣，并可能导致大学和企业之间的新研究和创新合作。

The proposal is for funding to establish a high performance computing centre to be shared by the N8 Research Partnership - a consortium of the research-intensive universities in the North of England (Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York). The aim is to underpin world class research in science and engineering, which increasingly makes use of large scale modelling, simulation and scale data analysis, alongside theory and experiment. The new facility will be cost effective, because it will be shared by 8 universities rather than each of the universities having a similar facility, and it will enable much more complex simulations and analyses to be run routinely than is currently possible. As well as underpinning world class research, the facility will be of great interest to industry, and is likely to lead to new research and innovation collaborations between the universities and business.