Creating a federated cloud-based TRE to facilitate consortium-based research and interoperability between existing institutions/TREs

我们建议利用SnowflakeTM多云数据结构创建一个技术演示器，以展示多研究所、多理事会生态系统如何利用同一平台加速协作研究，同时仍遵守严格的访问和安全管理。我们对下一代可信研究环境（TRE）的愿景是创建一个适用于大多数研究人员的通用功能，在大多数情况下，明确地从以前的离散、单一环境的概念转向分布式“数据结构”，它在任何现有的机构投资之间提供“粘合剂”。我们认为必要的关键创新是：·转向“原地计算”模型，远离当前主导许多TRE基础设施的“下载和在别处计算”的范例。·提供“开箱即用”的工作流程，以加快国际多方联盟的创建和管理，保证遵守国内数据主权和DPR立法·在学术界、公共部门机构（特别是NHS）和行业之间架起桥梁·解决整个研究生态系统中计算和存储环境访问的不对称性，允许人才贡献，而不是机构财富

We propose to create a technology demonstrator utilising the SnowflakeTM multi-cloud data fabric to show how a multi-institute, multi-council ecosystem can utilise the same platform for accelerating collaborative research, whilst still observing rigorous access and security management.Our vision for the next generation of Trusted Research Environments (TRE) is to create a general purpose capability which works for the majority of researchers, the majority of the time, expressly moving away from previous concepts of discrete, monolithic environments, to a distributed ‘data fabric’ which provides the ‘glue’ between any existing institutional investments.The key innovations we see as necessary are:• Moving to a ‘compute in situ’ model, away from the current paradigm of ‘download and compute elsewhere’ which dominates many TRE infrastructures• Creating a modular architecture, which creates generic services for processes such as research access management• Providing ‘out of the box’ workflows to expedite the creation and management of international, multi-party consortia, guaranteeing compliance with in-country data sovereignty and DPR legislation• Providing a bridge between academia, public sector bodies, especially the NHS, and industry• Resolve asymmetry of access to computing and storage environments across the research ecosystem, allowing contribution by talent, not wealth of institution