NRP: National eScience Centre Research Platform

来自国家电子科学中心（NeSC）电子科学核心计划的核心资金使我们能够成为电子科学方法和技术发展的领导者，以促进所有学科的研究。我们自己的研究特别关注/改进技术，以利用日益增长的分布式科学数据和知识财富。这些数据可以通过实验、模拟、专门的传感器和人类互动来获得。开发涉及从获取和索引数据到使用它来检验假设或发现模式以创造知识的每一步。我们的工作使各种学科的研究人员在利用规模和复杂性不断增长的数据时更加富有成效。这项研究是通过与苏格兰、英国和国际大学内的应用领域进行深入合作来补充的，以推动我们的理解、方法、算法、架构和技术。然后，我们整合结果，并通过NeSC研讨会、eSI、OMII-UK、EGEE、NextGRID、OGF、Grid Computing Now等渠道向更广泛的社区提供服务！以及联合研究出版物。支持的案例包括几个现有合作的例子，我们将继续进一步发展。通过提供核心支持和灵活性，该平台赠款将使我们能够继续和扩展我们的战略计划和合作关系。我们将继续通过联合拨款对每个贡献领域进行研究，以解决明确确定的技术挑战。根据过去的经验，我们认识到，这通常是通过这些领域的初始参与和原型工作来促进的。该平台赠款提供的资源将支持这些筹备性探索。平台团队中指定员工和调查人员的综合知识和参与将使我们能够利用我们合作项目之间的协同作用，否则这是不可实现的。平台赠款提供的连续性将使我们能够承诺与我们的科学伙伴进行为期五年的合作。支持的案例提供了许多目前正在开发的合作研究项目的实例，这些项目基于现有的工作并得到了支持信的确认。我们的研究策略超越了这些合作，扩展到跨学科和基础研究，这将使许多学科在许多地理尺度上受益：在两所大学内，整个苏格兰，整个英国和国际。这项研究将由研究人员根据应用论坛定期会议的反馈和建议进行指导。NeSC对应用社区的支持将利用大学和苏格兰丰富的研究环境。我们的支持将通过易于使用的高级工具在可靠和灵活的资源生态系统上运行。这些资源可以在本地由研究机构和互联网云提供。一个渐进的、务实的和经验的方法是必要的，以确保我们满足研究人员的真正需求。我们将发现为特定目标利用数据或计算的机会，然后将成功的经验整合起来，为多个应用领域提供一个日益高效的研究环境。NeSC研究计划必须满足研究人员的要求，并熟练地调整支持系统，以获得协同、共享、可靠性和准确性。通过不同应用程序之间的细化和交叉融合，持续的参与显著增加了这种方法的力量。

The core funding from the e-Science Core Programme for the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) has enabled us to be leaders in the development of e-Science methods and technology to facilitate research in all disciplines. Our own research has a particular focus / improving techniques for exploiting the ever-growing wealth of distributed scientific data and knowledge. This data may be obtained through experiment, simulation, specialised sensors and human interaction. Exploitation involves every step from obtaining and indexing data to using it to test hypotheses or discover patterns in order to create knowledge. Our work enables researchers in a wide variety of disciplines to be more productive as they exploit data that is growing in scale and complexity.This research is complemented by engaging in intensive collaboration with application domains within our universities, in Scotland, in the UK and internationally to drive forward our understanding, methods, algorithms, architectures and technologies. We then integrate the results and provide services to a wider community through channels such as NeSC workshops, eSI, OMII-UK, EGEE, NextGRID, OGF, Grid Computing Now! and joint research publications. The case for support includes several illustrations of existing collaborations which we will continue to develop further.By providing core support and flexibility, this platform grant will enable us to continue and extend our strategic programme and collaborative relationships. We will continue to undertake research into each contributing domain through joint grants that address explicitly identified technical challenges. Through past experience we recognise that this is often facilitated through initial engagement and prototyping work with those domains. The resources provided by this platform grant will support these preparatory explorations. The combined knowledge and engagement of the named staff and investigators on the platform team will enable us to exploit synergies between our collaborative projects, which would not otherwise be feasible. The continuity provided by the platform grant will enable us to commit to five year's collaboration with our science partners. The case for support provides many illustrations of collaborative research projects currently in development, based on existing work and confirmed by letters of support. Our research strategy extends beyond these collaborations to interdisciplinary and fundamental research that will benefit many disciplines at a number of geographic scales: within the two universities, across Scotland, throughout the UK and internationally.The research will be steered by the investigators with feedback and advice from regular meetings of an applications forum. The NeSC's support for application communities will draw on the rich research environment in the universities and in Scotland. Our support will be delivered through easy-to-use high-level tools operating over an ecosystem of dependable and flexible resources. These resources may be provided locally, by research organisations and in the internet cloud .An incremental, pragmatic and empirical approach is necessary to ensure that we meet researchers' real needs. We will spot opportunities to exploit data or computation for specific goals then integrate the successes to provide an increasingly productive research environment for multiple application domains. The NeSC research programme must deliver what researchers require and adroitly adapt the supporting systems to obtain synergy, sharing, dependability and precision. Sustained engagement significantly increases the power of this approach through refinement and cross-fertilisation between the different applications.