NRP: National eScience Centre Research Platform

来自国家电子科学中心(NSC)的电子科学核心计划的核心资金使我们能够成为开发电子科学方法和技术的领导者，以促进所有学科的研究。我们自己的研究有一个特别的重点/改进技术，以利用不断增长的分布式科学数据和知识的财富。这些数据可以通过实验、模拟、专门的传感器和人类交互来获得。利用包括从获取和索引数据到使用它来测试假设或发现模式以创造知识的每一步。我们的工作使不同学科的研究人员在利用规模和复杂性不断增长的数据时能够更有效率。这项研究通过与我们的大学、苏格兰、英国和国际上的应用领域进行深入合作来补充，以推动我们的理解、方法、算法、架构和技术。然后我们整合结果，并通过NSC研讨会、ESI、OMII-UK、EGEE、NextGRID、OGF、网格计算等渠道向更广泛的社区提供服务！和联合研究出版物。支持案例包括几个我们将继续发展的现有合作的插图。通过提供核心支持和灵活性，这一平台赠款将使我们能够继续并扩大我们的战略计划和合作关系。我们将继续通过联合赠款对每个贡献领域进行研究，以应对明确确定的技术挑战。根据过去的经验，我们认识到，这通常是通过与这些领域的初始接触和原型工作来促进的。这笔平台赠款提供的资源将支持这些预备性探索。平台团队中被点名的工作人员和调查人员的综合知识和参与将使我们能够利用我们的合作项目之间的协同效应，否则这是不可行的。平台赠款提供的连续性将使我们能够致力于与我们的科学合作伙伴进行五年的合作。支持案例提供了许多关于目前正在开发的合作研究项目的说明，这些项目以现有工作为基础，并得到了支持函的确认。我们的研究战略超越了这些合作，扩展到跨学科和基础研究，这些研究将在许多地理范围内造福于许多学科：在两所大学内、在苏格兰各地、在整个英国和国际上。研究将由调查人员指导，并从应用程序论坛的定期会议上获得反馈和建议。NSC对应用社区的支持将利用大学和苏格兰丰富的研究环境。我们的支持将通过在可靠和灵活的资源生态系统上运行的易于使用的高级工具提供。这些资源可以在本地、由研究机构或在互联网云中提供。为了确保我们满足研究人员的真正需求，有必要采取循序渐进、务实和实证的方法。我们将发现利用数据或计算实现特定目标的机会，然后整合成功，为多个应用领域提供一个日益高效的研究环境。NSC研究方案必须提供研究人员所需的内容，并灵活调整支持系统，以获得协同、共享、可靠性和精确度。持续参与通过改进和不同应用程序之间的交叉受精显著增强了此方法的威力。

The core funding from the e-Science Core Programme for the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) has enabled us to be leaders in the development of e-Science methods and technology to facilitate research in all disciplines. Our own research has a particular focus / improving techniques for exploiting the ever-growing wealth of distributed scientific data and knowledge. This data may be obtained through experiment, simulation, specialised sensors and human interaction. Exploitation involves every step from obtaining and indexing data to using it to test hypotheses or discover patterns in order to create knowledge. Our work enables researchers in a wide variety of disciplines to be more productive as they exploit data that is growing in scale and complexity.This research is complemented by engaging in intensive collaboration with application domains within our universities, in Scotland, in the UK and internationally to drive forward our understanding, methods, algorithms, architectures and technologies. We then integrate the results and provide services to a wider community through channels such as NeSC workshops, eSI, OMII-UK, EGEE, NextGRID, OGF, Grid Computing Now! and joint research publications. The case for support includes several illustrations of existing collaborations which we will continue to develop further.By providing core support and flexibility, this platform grant will enable us to continue and extend our strategic programme and collaborative relationships. We will continue to undertake research into each contributing domain through joint grants that address explicitly identified technical challenges. Through past experience we recognise that this is often facilitated through initial engagement and prototyping work with those domains. The resources provided by this platform grant will support these preparatory explorations. The combined knowledge and engagement of the named staff and investigators on the platform team will enable us to exploit synergies between our collaborative projects, which would not otherwise be feasible. The continuity provided by the platform grant will enable us to commit to five year's collaboration with our science partners. The case for support provides many illustrations of collaborative research projects currently in development, based on existing work and confirmed by letters of support. Our research strategy extends beyond these collaborations to interdisciplinary and fundamental research that will benefit many disciplines at a number of geographic scales: within the two universities, across Scotland, throughout the UK and internationally.The research will be steered by the investigators with feedback and advice from regular meetings of an applications forum. The NeSC's support for application communities will draw on the rich research environment in the universities and in Scotland. Our support will be delivered through easy-to-use high-level tools operating over an ecosystem of dependable and flexible resources. These resources may be provided locally, by research organisations and in the internet cloud .An incremental, pragmatic and empirical approach is necessary to ensure that we meet researchers' real needs. We will spot opportunities to exploit data or computation for specific goals then integrate the successes to provide an increasingly productive research environment for multiple application domains. The NeSC research programme must deliver what researchers require and adroitly adapt the supporting systems to obtain synergy, sharing, dependability and precision. Sustained engagement significantly increases the power of this approach through refinement and cross-fertilisation between the different applications.