ESNW : A Centre for Collaborative Multidisciplinary e-Research in the North West

该建议是在西北电子科学（ESNW）现有成功的基础上建立一个多学科合作研究中心。ESNW的建立是为了支持该地区的网格和电子科学活动，并为建立英国国家网格提供努力。ESNW还在生物医学电子科学方面拥有强大的专业知识。我们已经成功地从大学和西北地区获得了大量的额外资金，现在正在寻求进一步的资金，以提供一个可持续的中心，这将是在英国的国家和国际电子科学活动的永久部分过渡。我们还打算利用这笔资金促进知识转移，从我们目前的项目组合转移到新的应用领域和学科的新项目。我们正在大学建立一个虚拟校园，将研究人员与解决研究前沿问题的工具和基础设施联系起来。研究数据的庞大数量和格式范围以及对模拟和数据分析的巨大计算能力的需求是e-Science的识别领域，因此我们的提案在强大的软件工程方面投入了大量资金。我们还希望在将e-Science技术转让给西北地区的行业和其他利益相关者方面发挥关键作用。因此，我们的建议包括业务经理的活动，以提供这种联络，安排研讨会，讲习班和技术演示。我们将利用我们在Access Grid方面的世界级专业知识，更广泛地传播我们的课程和研讨会，并提供国际合作伙伴提供的其他课程和研讨会。我们在世界大学网络中的参与将在这里发挥杠杆作用。我们的生物医学电子科学将增长，ESNW将负责从这些项目中提取网格中间件和技术的共性，并与英国开放中间件基础设施计划等组织联络，使这些项目更加强大和广泛。因此，我们将增加英国网格中间件堆栈。我们与英国电网运营支持中心密切联系，并提供努力和咨询，作为国家支持工作的一部分。我们是西北电网的创始成员，并将利用我们的联系和项目，以确保这是有效地用于增长知识经济在西北地区。

This proposal is to build a centre for collaborative multidisciplinary research building on the existing successes of e-Science North-West (ESNW). ESNW was established to provide support for Grid and e-Science activities in the region and to provide effort in building a UK National Grid. ESNW also has a strong specialism in bio-medical e-Science. We have succeeded in gaining substantial additional funding from the University and the North-West region and are now seeking further funding to provide a transition to a sustainable centre that will be a permanent part of the national and international e-Science activities in the UK. We are also intending to use the funding to promote knowledge transfer from our current portfolio of projects to new projects in new application areas and disciplines. We are establishing a Virtual Campus at the University linking researchers to tools and infrastructure for solving problems at the frontiers of research. The sheer volume and range of formats for research data and the need for massive computing power for simulation and data analysis are the identifying areas of e-Science so our proposal invests heavily in effort for robust software engineering.We also wish to play a key role in technology transfer of e-Science techniques to industry and other stakeholders in the North-West. Consequently our proposal includes the activities of a business manager to provide this liaison, arrange seminars, workshops and demonstrations of technology. We will utilise our world-class expertise in Access Grid both to diffuse our courses and seminars more widely and to make available other courses and seminars given by international partners. Our participation in the World Universities Network will be leveraged here. Our bio-medical e-Science will grow, and ESNW will be responsible for extracting commonality of Grid middleware and techniques from these projects and liaising with organisations such as the UK Open Middleware Infrastructure Initiative to make these robust and widely available. Thus we will augment the UK Grid middleware stack. We liaise closely with the UK Grid Operations Support Centre and provide effort and consultancy as part of this national support effort. We are founding members of North-West Grid and will use our contacts and projects to ensure that this is productively used to grow the knowledge economy in the North-West.