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Speculative Transformation Workshops

By Design Science

Do you work with Digital Research Infrastructure in UK academia, industry or public services? Would you like to shape the future of compute services and the federation of data in the UK? The Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for NFCS project is running free Speculative Transformation Workshops in London, Edinburgh and Daresbury on Inclusive Pathways for the Futures of National … Continued

UKRI research data landscape survey

By Design Science

This NFCS-funded project is exploring the benefits that establishing a federation of national, regional, and institutional computing resources within the UK could provide to researchers and service providers. Towards this end, we are seeking input from those who generate datasets through their research that they may make available through data publishing services, and also from … Continued

Online workshop, 2nd of December 2025: “Exploring the governance requirements for enabling UK DRIs to adopt MyAccessID”

By Design Science

Join the upcoming online workshop held by the NFCS-funded “Exploring the governance requirements for enabling UK DRIs to adopt MyAccessID” project, which will feature talks from the STFC Hartree Centre, UCL, the University of Bristol, and the University of Cambridge. Topics will include an introduction to MyAccessID and its potential as a federated IAM solution. … Continued

New publication by the project: “Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for National Federated Compute Services”

By Design Science

The NFCS-funded project “Inclusive Futures: User stories and mapping pathways for National Federated Compute Services” has published “Inclusive Futures of Federated Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI). A Scoping Review of Cultural Challenges to Federation“, which explores the key cultural challenges to the federation of compute services and data. This report provides: If you’re interested in understanding … Continued

Workshops on Federated HPC-Edge Computing

By Design Science

Join the upcoming workshops on Federated HPC-Edge computing to help shape the future of Edge-HPC workflows. When: 2nd and 3rd December 2025Where: Newcastle University + Online The NFCS-funded project “Federated Edge–HPC architectures for AI workflows in privacy-sensitive and real-time domains“, led by Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd in collaboration with Newcastle University, invites researchers, engineers, … Continued

HPC-SIG Hartree Meeting

By Design Science

The HPC-SIG is hosting a meeting at the Hartree Centre in Daresbury this week, 22nd and 23rd of October. The 3-day agenda is packed with talks on a variety of subjects relevant to both HPC users and providers, many of which are directly relevant to our efforts into creating a roadmap towards a federation of … Continued

Expressions of interest: Workshop on Exploring the Role of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Built Environment

By Design Science

The NFCS funded project “Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design” is looking for expressions of interest for their workshop on Exploring the Role of High-Performance Computing (HPC) in the Built Environment. Organised by: University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)Date: 30 Jan 2026 (9.30 – 16.30)Location: In-person, Conference Aston, Birmingham, B4 7ET This one-day workshop will bring … Continued

Expressions of interest for the “Understanding challenges and enablers to the use of HPC to enhance healthcare research” workshop

By Design Science

The NFCS funded project “Enhancing HPC adoption through user-centred design” is looking for expressions of interest for their workshop “Understanding challenges and enablers to the use of HPC to enhance healthcare research”. Organised by: University of the West of England (UWE Bristol)Date: 17 Dec 2025 (9.30 – 16.30)Location: Wellcome Trust, London This one-day workshop will bring together researchers, … Continued

Results from the first flexible funding call

By chris

We are excited to announce the projects that have been funded during our first Flexible Funding call. These projects will help create the roadmap towards a federated compute service, and we will introduce each project in detail in the months to come. For now, the titles of the projects and the organisations of the project … Continued

Second Flexible Funding call

By chris

Following a successful first call where 13 projects were funded, we are looking to support more projects that will further: This funding call is open until the 5th of October 2025. Projects can run from the 1st of December 2025 to 31st of July 2026, and funds can be awarded to any UKRI eligible organisation … Continued

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