HPC威尔士以200万英镑的欧洲资金增长

At an event highlighting the impact of research enabled by High Performance Computing (HPC) in Wales, data experts, technology suppliers and policymakers gathered at the University of Cardiff’s new Abacws building, heard Economy Minister Vaughan Gething MS announce the provision of a further European Regional Development Fund of £2m to support HPC facilities and software engineering teams across all four Supercomputing Wales (SCW) universities: Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor. Available through the Welsh Government this has brought the total funding to £11.9M for the period 2015-2022, with University partner investment topping up the programme value to £19.6M.

Gething部长说：“研究，科学和技术在解决我们时代的主要全球问题方面从未如此重要。一个完美的例子是超级计算在全球大流行期间的宝贵作品，在建模COVID-19在威尔士和测序Covid-19基因组中的传播建模。超级计算威尔士不仅仅是计算基础架构，而且是一个重要的研究软件工程师，技术人员和研究人员的重要社区，旨在为科学，我们的大学和威尔士取得实质性成果。

“高性能计算和软件工程将在未来十年的学术和工业研究中发挥至关重要的作用。威尔士政府自豪地支持超级计算威尔士，以寻求在数据收集和分析方面建立研究专业知识。这将使经济，公共服务，教育和医疗保健有益于改善我们未来的福祉，并解决我们这个时代的一些主要全球问题。”

加的夫大学的超级计算威尔士学术总监兼专业研究，创新和企业副校长罗杰·惠特克（Roger Whitaker）教授说：“我们很高兴欢迎包括经济部长沃恩·沃恩（Vaughan Gething）在内的各种代表和演讲者参加我们的展示柜。大规模数据现在很丰富，该活动旨在庆祝HPC和软件工程在帮助处理，分析和理解塑造威尔士，英国及其他地区创新的数据方面的作用。”

Guest speakers also included Professor Mark Wilkinson, Director of DiRAC which provides distributed HPC services to the Science and Technology Facilities Council theory community.Mike Gravenor, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at Swansea University’s Institute of Life Science and Dr Anna Price, a Research Software Engineer in Cardiff’s School of Biosciences focused on the role played by Supercomputing Wales in data analysis to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

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