Connecting Infrastructure, Connecting Research

Summer School on Grid and Cloud Workflows and Gateways

Summer School on Grid and Cloud Workflows and Gateways

1-6 July 2013, Budapest, Hungary

Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop 2013

Software Sustainability Collaborations Workshop 2013

The Collaborations Workshop 2013 will be held at Merton College, University of Oxford on 21-22 March 2013

Research Associate Wanted

Research Associate Wanted

Can you contribute to research in Distributed Computing?

New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform

New versions of WS-PGRADE/gUSE and the CloudBroker Platform

provide extended cloud access for science gateways

Call for students/young ambassadors

Call for students/young ambassadors

participate in ICT 2013 Conference - Deadline 5 JUNE!

Application Porting Workshop

Application Porting Workshop

Application Porting Workshop between 19-22 March at the University of Westminster.

About Us

The NES: Who we are and what we do

The National e-Infrastructure Service (NES) aims to facilitate UK research by providing access to a broad range of computational and data based resources.

The goal of the NES is to deliver a production quality e-infrastructure to support academic research across all Higher Education Institutes  (HEIs) in the UK.

We provide core services to enable collaborative access to computing and data resources in support of UK researchers.

The NES ensures that UK researchers can efficiently exploit computing facilities all across the globe. To make this possible we have developed partnerships with infrastructures in Europe, the USA, and elsewhere  in the world.

The EU Competitiveness Council has identified provision of e-Infrastructure as crucial to the future success of EU economies in a global market place. To meet this demand the NES has established itself as the foremost provider of international e-infrastructure for the UK. 

The NES is funded by JISC and EPSRC, and is led by the STFC e-Science Department. The e-Science department works in close conjunction with the University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Leeds (White Rose Grid Consortium), and the University of Oxford.

During the European Grid Infrastructure Technical Forum in Prague, Czech Republic, Steve Tuecke, deputy director of the Computation Institute at Argonne National Laboratory, US, talked about a crisis in IT represented by the ‘dark data’ on the long tail of science.

The EGI Writing Prize has two categories:

  • Researchers: PhD students and early career scientists (up to seven years after finishing PhD) who have used or are using grid computing for their research. We'll consider all fields of research from humanities to geology, or anything else. See the FAQs for Researchers
  • Writers: This category includes everyone with an interest in science writing (bloggers, freelancers, journalists), science communication students we're looking at you. See FAQs for Writers

The event will be hosted by the departments of IT Services and Particle Physics, University of Manchester, UK between 8-12 April 2013.

The forum will be held at University Place, a purpose-built conference centre in the heart of the University of Manchester's main campus in Oxford Road, only minutes away from the city centre. Manchester is the second largest city in the United Kingdom and it has a long tradition in the history of Science and Computers. Just across the road from the venue, Ernest Rutherford devised the nuclear model of the atom, Hans Geiger built his first radiation counters and Marie Stopes began her academic career. It was also in Manchester's campus that Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn developed Manchester Mark 1 (the first stored-program computer) and that Alan Turing pondered the prospect of machine intelligence.

The name change is in recognition of the evolution of the project over its eight year history to reflect its core business today. From a proof of concept computing grid with mid-range CPU and data resources its focus has transformed into providing the essential services for building a federated e-infrastructure, whether that be grid, cloud, data or other services. Aligned with this change, we have released a new version of our website targeted at the different audiences we serve. To ensure a smooth transition you will still find us at www.ngs.ac.uk

Syndicate content