The UK National Grid Service (NGS) is a national consortium of computational and data resource that makes use of defined open standard grid interfaces to provide
services to academia.

Further information about the NGS can be found at the NGS web site (www.ngs.ac.uk).

The mission of the National Grid Service is to provide coherent electronic access for UK researchers to all computational and data based resources and facilities required to carry out their research, independent of resource or researcher location.

The National Grid Service, funded by JISC, EPSRC and STFC (formerly CCLRC), was created in October 2003 and the service entered full production in September 2004. The NGS entered its second phase in October 2006.

The core sites of the NGS are:

• Oxford
• Manchester
• White Rose Grid at Leeds
• STFC-RAL

NGS Partners and Affiliates currently include: Belfast, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh Glasgow, HPCx, Imperial College London, Keele, Lancaster, NeSC, Reading, Southampton, Westminster. 

Support for NGS is through the NGS Support Centre. The support centre can be contacted by email at support@grid-support.ac.uk. If your issue is specific to Oxford's resources, then you can email the local support email address ngs-help@oerc.ox.ac.uk For information as to how to register for NGS see our registration information.