Posted by s.hettrick on 17 August 2011 - 11:54am

Today, the NGS announced that JISC will continue to fund the service until 31July 2012. This will allow the NGS to carry on supporting its broad user base across the UK and to strengthen their links into Europe and beyond.

In addition to supporting users, the NGS will be looking to further develop the essential relationship that they have with their member institutions. This will include further roadshows, and outreach activities at universities and research institutions that have a significant current or prospective user base, including current user experiences and training events for getting started with the NGS.

David Wallom, Technical Director of the NGS, said “This extension is a further demonstration of the importance of a core research computing service available at a national level, supporting projects from the large international infrastructures through to the small single researcher activity. The NGS supports the federation of resources between institutions and the central services which are essential to avoid duplication of effort in larger projects.”

For more information, see the NGS website.