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。它可以比个人计算机更快地执行数量级的模拟，从而将所需时间从几个月减少到几天甚至几分钟。高性能计算技术现在渗透到我们的日常生活中，例如从金融交易、飞机发动机设计到动画电影制作。到目前为止，在拉夫堡大学和莱斯特大学的工程和物理科学领域，高性能计算被专门用于应对包括能源、制造、可持续发展、医疗保健、交通运输在内的全球挑战。这项提议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，通过成立高性能计算-米德兰兹中心，向中部和其他地区的高等教育机构的研究人员提供高性能计算，以支持优秀的科学和工程研究。它还将扩大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级设施，使英国经济受益。还将把重点放在该区域的较小公司上，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.