A national federation of large-scale computing resources can boost research efficiency, accessibility and collaboration.
This Network-Plus will unite diverse communities to create strategic roadmaps, leveraging existing services and technologies to build a coordinated, interoperable and inclusive computing infrastructure across the UK.
National Federated Compute Services Network Plus Autumn Conference 2025
Registration now open
Are you a Digital Research Infrastructure user or provider wondering where you'll be on 22–23 September?
If you're interested in helping us shape a national federation of compute services and the opportunities this will create, then join us at our second national event.
This will be a stimulating combination of expert plenaries and focussed experience sharing and problem-solving across a broad agenda including:
- Edge federation
- Data movement and management
- Inter/transnational collaboration
- The transition from laptop to cluster
- Identity and access management
- HPC for non-traditional users
- and more
The Conference will also provide an opportunity for partnership building for the programme's second call for DRI Roadmap projects.
Second flexible
funding call
Following a successful first call where 13 projects were funded, we are looking to support more projects that will further:
- Collect relevant evidence and documentation to contribute to the development of the NFCS roadmap.
- Contribute to building the DRI community around NFCS.
This funding call is open until 5 October.
Projects can run from 1 December 2025 to 31 July 2026, and funds can be awarded to any UKRI eligible organisation to a maximum of £120K.
We are particularly interested in areas not yet covered by the projects funded in the first call. A summary of these - as well as the guidance document and application form - are available for download.