West of Scotland Supercomputing Centre for Academia and Industry (Recurring)

该提案是为苏格兰西部的一个高性能计算（HPC）区域中心提出的，该中心将设在斯特拉斯克莱德大学。参与该联盟的其他大学是格拉斯哥、格拉斯哥喀里多尼亚、苏格兰西部和斯特林。该中心将在学术界与国家和国际工业界最有效地合作的社区内提供HPC服务，通过合作研究和工业产品设计和仿真带来增强的商业竞争力和创新机会。我们战略的一个关键组成部分是在本地提供一个完全集成的HPC资源、支持和培训服务包，以便行业更直接地被吸引到正在执行工作的地方，并可以与HPC专家和相关支持进行互动。随着关系的成熟，个人互动对于最初的参与和长期战略合作伙伴关系的发展至关重要，建立对学术专业知识的信任和信心以及从访问HPC功能中获得的好处。该中心将在制造、能源、健康技术和物理科学优先领域建立新的、附加的大学合作和产学研究伙伴关系。在这些领域工作的行业和其他组织将受益于对HPC设施的服务提供访问，以及需要高性能计算的联合研发机会。我们认识到“一刀切”的方法无法实现工业用户参与，因此我们将采取灵活的方法，在HPC中心托管和优先处理一次性/泵启动合同研究，并就各种问题建立长期合作研究关系。此外，中心亦会鼓励有共同兴趣的其他机构（例如中小型企业、企业及经济发展机构）组成联盟，共同参与中心的工作。中心的管理架构可确保咨询委员会内的主要业界及学术界人士直接参与中心的运作。该中心将能够灵活地修改其准入和业务计划，以及其国家方案文件和外联活动，以确保它继续专注于实现其目标。这种灵活性在受到根深蒂固的做法和竞争战略优先事项阻碍的大型行动中不容易实现。该中心的主任和业务团队将促进伙伴学术界和工业界之间的合作，确保为所有工业需求提供适当的技能和专门知识，而高-新的和现有的工业用户都可以立即看到用于设计和创新的性能计算。该中心的使命是确保最好的科学和工程研究与开发部署到通过与学术界和行业合作伙伴的密切合作，充分发挥社会效益。中心与这一使命保持一致，保证了其可持续性，东道大学及其合作伙伴的持续承诺将确保中心在实现其宗旨和目标方面取得长期成功。

This proposal is for an academia-industry High Performance Computing (HPC) regional centre for the West of Scotland that will be based at the University of Strathclyde. The other universities involved in the consortium are Glasgow, Glasgow Caledonian, West of Scotland and Stirling. The centre will provide a step-change in HPC provision within a community where academia collaborates most effectively with national and international industry, bringing enhanced business competitiveness and innovation opportunities through collaborative research and industrial product design and simulation. A key component of our strategy is to provide a completely integrated package of HPC resource, support and training service locally, so that industries are more directly attracted to where the work is being performed, and can interact with the HPC experts and associated support. Personal interactions are crucial to both the initial engagement and for the development of longer-term strategic partnerships as relationships mature, building trust and confidence in the academic expertise and the benefits derived from access to HPC capability. New, additive university collaborations and industry-university research partnerships in the Manufacturing, Energy, Health Technologies, and Physical Sciences priority areas will be made possible by the centre. Industries and other organisations working in these sectors will benefit from service provision access to the HPC facilities, as well as from opportunities for joint research and development that requires high performance computing. In recognising that a "one size fits all" approach to industrial user engagement will not work, we will adopt a flexible approach to hosting and prioritising one-off/pump priming contract research in the HPC Centre, as well as develop long-lasting collaborative research relationships on a variety of problems. Participation in and by consortia involving other organisations with common interests (e.g. SMEs, and enterprise and economic development agencies) will also be strongly encouraged.The management structure of the centre ensures that key industrial and academic stakeholders on the Advisory Board will be directly involved in steering the centre. The centre will have the agility to modify its access and operational plans, as well as its CPD and outreach activities, to ensure it remains focused on achieving its goals. This agility is not easily achieved in larger operations encumbered by entrenched practices and competing strategic priorities. The Centre's Director and operational team will facilitate cooperation between partner academics and industrialists, ensuring the right skills and expertise are brought to bear on all industrial needs, and that the advantages of high-performance computing for design and innovation are immediately apparent to both new and existing industrial users.The centre's mission is to ensure that the best scientific and engineering research and development is deployed to full societal benefit by working closely with academic and industry partners. The alignment of the Centre to this mission guarantees its sustainability, and the continuing commitment of the host University and its partners will ensure long-term success in delivering its aims and objectives.