A Common Cloud Platform for STFC Science

-----STFC支持天文学、天体物理学、宇宙学、核物理学、粒子物理学和太阳系科学领域的科学项目，并支持国家分析科学设施，包括钻石光源、ISIS和中央激光设施。这些科学计划和设施活动都是数据密集型的，需要非常大容量的计算和数据处理设施，这些设施通过高性能网络与其他全球设施（统称为电子基础设施）连接。在本提案中，我们要求150万英镑的资金来支持一系列工作包，这些工作包将在三个关键领域为STFC电子基础设施的发展提供进展：云基础设施开发-软件生态系统开发-共享环境中的数据利用。我们将创建的设施将增强现有的良好验证和有效的电子基础设施。并在项目理事会和科技资助委员会科学计算部的支持下，提供给科技资助委员会内的所有科学领域。该设施还将使我们能够与RCUK的其他研究领域建立具体联系，并进一步参与研究的国家电子基础设施（NeI）的开发。

Summary-----STFC supports science programmes in the areas of Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, Nuclear Physics, Particle Physics and Solar System science, and supports the national analytic science facilities including the Diamond Light Source, ISIS, and the Central Laser Facility. These science programmes and facilities activities are all data intensive, requiring very large capacity computing and data handling facilities connected by a high performance network to other global facilities (collectively called the e-Infrastructure).In this proposal, we request £1.5M of funding to support a set of work packages which will deliver progress towards the development the STFC e-Infrastructure in three key areas:-Cloud infrastructure development-Software ecosystem development-Data exploitation in a shared environmentThe facility we will create will augment existing well proven and effective e-Infrastructures, and be made available to all science areas within STFC supported by the Programmes Directorate and the STFC Scientific Computing Department.The facility will also allow us to build concrete links with other RCUK research areas, and to participate further in the development of a National e-Infrastructure (NeI) for research.