The National e-Science Centre 2006-2008

在过去的几年里，e-Science这个术语已经渗透到许多研究学科的工作中。电子科学可以被定义为计算方法的发明和应用，以扩展我们在任何研究领域的能力。E-Science包括管理和利用快速增长的数据集、科学数据库、使用高级计算模型、支持科学协作以及使用强大的计算基础设施(如网格)的新方法。爱丁堡大学和格拉斯哥大学在电子科学方面表现突出，并被选为联合主办国家电子科学中心，负责在全国范围内发展、促进和支持电子科学。国家科学中心提供国家领导和协调，在国际上代表英国电子科学计划的重点，区域扩展，并参与发展国家基础设施。国家科学中心还加强(和利用)大学内许多已经很强大的资产，包括广泛的电子科学项目组合，高性能计算设施，与计算机科学的广泛学科接触的精神，以及各种精选研究数据和计算密集型研究应用程序。这项建议寻求在目前的赠款于2006年7月到期后，将国家服务合同再延续两年。

The term e-Science has pervaded the workings of many research disciplines in the last few years. E-Science can be defined as the invention and application of computing methods to extend our capabilities in any research discipline. E-Science includes pioneering new methods for managing and exploiting the rapidly growing collections of data, scientific databases, the use of advanced computational models, the support of scientific collaboration, and the use of powerful computational infrastructures such as the Grid. The Universities of Edinburgh and Glasgow have been prominent in e-Science and were chosen to jointly host the National e-Science Centre , charged with developing, promoting and supporting e-Science nationwide. The NeSc provides national leadership and coordination, a focus for representing the UK e-Science programme internationally, regional outreach, and participation in developing the national infrastructure.The NeSC also augments (and leverages) many already strong assets within the Universities, including an extensive portfolio of e-Science projects, high-performance computing facilities, an ethos of engaging with a wide range of disciplines in Computer Science and a diverse range of curated research data and computationally intensive research applications. This proposal seeks the continuation of the NeSC for a further two year period following the expiry of the current grant in July 2006.