ESNW : A Centre for Collaborative Multidisciplinary e-Research in the North West

该建议是在e-Science northwest （ESNW）现有成功的基础上建立一个多学科合作研究中心。建立ESNW的目的是为该地区的电网和电子科学活动提供支持，并为建立英国国家电网提供努力。西南西北大学在生物医学电子科学方面也有很强的专长。我们已经成功地从大学和西北地区获得了大量的额外资金，现在正在寻求进一步的资金，以提供一个过渡到一个可持续的中心，这将是英国国家和国际电子科学活动的永久组成部分。我们还打算利用这笔资金，促进现有项目的知识转移到新的应用领域和学科的新项目中。我们正在大学建立一个虚拟校园，将研究人员与解决研究前沿问题的工具和基础设施联系起来。研究数据的绝对数量和格式范围以及对模拟和数据分析的大规模计算能力的需求是电子科学的识别领域，因此我们的建议在强大的软件工程方面投入了大量资金。我们还希望在向西北地区的工业和其他利益相关者转让电子科学技术方面发挥关键作用。因此，我们的建议包括一个业务经理的活动，提供这种联系，安排研讨会，讲习班和技术演示。我们将利用我们在Access Grid方面的世界级专业知识，更广泛地传播我们的课程和研讨会，并提供国际合作伙伴举办的其他课程和研讨会。我们对世界大学网络的参与将在这里发挥作用。我们的生物医学电子科学将会发展，ESNW将负责从这些项目中提取网格中间件和技术的共性，并与英国开放中间件基础设施倡议等组织保持联系，使这些项目健壮且广泛可用。因此，我们将扩大英国网格中间件堆栈。我们与英国电网运营支持中心保持密切联系，并作为国家支持工作的一部分提供努力和咨询。我们是西北电网的创始成员，并将利用我们的联系和项目，以确保这是有效地用于发展西北地区的知识经济。

This proposal is to build a centre for collaborative multidisciplinary research building on the existing successes of e-Science North-West (ESNW). ESNW was established to provide support for Grid and e-Science activities in the region and to provide effort in building a UK National Grid. ESNW also has a strong specialism in bio-medical e-Science. We have succeeded in gaining substantial additional funding from the University and the North-West region and are now seeking further funding to provide a transition to a sustainable centre that will be a permanent part of the national and international e-Science activities in the UK. We are also intending to use the funding to promote knowledge transfer from our current portfolio of projects to new projects in new application areas and disciplines. We are establishing a Virtual Campus at the University linking researchers to tools and infrastructure for solving problems at the frontiers of research. The sheer volume and range of formats for research data and the need for massive computing power for simulation and data analysis are the identifying areas of e-Science so our proposal invests heavily in effort for robust software engineering.We also wish to play a key role in technology transfer of e-Science techniques to industry and other stakeholders in the North-West. Consequently our proposal includes the activities of a business manager to provide this liaison, arrange seminars, workshops and demonstrations of technology. We will utilise our world-class expertise in Access Grid both to diffuse our courses and seminars more widely and to make available other courses and seminars given by international partners. Our participation in the World Universities Network will be leveraged here. Our bio-medical e-Science will grow, and ESNW will be responsible for extracting commonality of Grid middleware and techniques from these projects and liaising with organisations such as the UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Initiative to make these robust and widely available. Thus we will augment the UK Grid middleware stack. We liaise closely with the UK Grid Operations Support Centre and provide effort and consultancy as part of this national support effort. We are founding members of North-West Grid and will use our contacts and projects to ensure that this is productively used to grow the knowledge economy in the North-West.