HEFCE funding for Jisc national data centre

A new data centre, funded with £900,000 from HEFCE, will open up high-performance computing at a reasonable price to a consortium of universities and research institutes under a five-year agreement.
By joining forces, and with Jisc acting as broker, the six partners will get a better deal, giving them access to the first shared-services data centre for academic and medical research in the UK. The initial partners in this project are University College London, Kings College London, the Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, the London School of Economics and Political Science and Queen Mary University of London. More...