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。它可以比个人电脑更快地执行数量级的模拟，从而将所需的时间从几个月减少到几天甚至几分钟。有一种相关的能力，能够生成、移动和分析非常快速的大量数据。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（Loughborough University）和莱斯特大学（University of Leicester）的工程与物理科学学院，高性能计算迄今已被专门用于解决全球挑战，包括能源、制造业、可持续性、医疗保健、交通运输。该提案将在拉夫堡大学和莱斯特大学之间建立一个新的合作伙伴关系，通过HPC-米德兰兹中心的形成，为米德兰兹高等教育机构的研究人员提供HPC，以及其他地方，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使用其世界一流的设施，从而使英国经济受益。还将重点关注该地区的小型公司，为它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.