Proposal for a Tier 2 Centre - HPC Midlands Plus

高性能计算(HPC)技术用于为具有挑战性的问题提供解决方案，这些问题需要更高的计算机能力。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。在整个联盟的工程和物理科学中，HPC迄今已被专门用于应对包括能源、制造、可持续发展、医疗保健和运输在内的全球挑战。展望未来，我们正在研究如何发展高性能计算，以在新兴领域产生影响，例如量子技术。这项建议将建立在中部地区和与玛丽女王的伙伴关系基础上，通过成立高性能计算中心，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。支持这一点的是大学承诺支持开发能够最大限度地利用该系统的软件。

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 across the consortium, HPC has to date been specifically used to address global challenges including Energy, Manufacturing, Sustainability, Healthcare and Transport. Moving forwards we are looking at how we can develop HPC to have an impact in emergent areas, such as Quantum Technologies.This proposal will build on partnerships in the Midlands and with Queen Mary for the delivery of HPC through the formation of the HPC Midlands Plus 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. Underpinning this will be a commitment from the Universities to support the development of software that can make the optimal use of the system.