This Town Hall meeting will engage the research and innovation community in UKRI’s plans for the Next National Supercomputing Service (NNSS) and the new National Compute Resources (NCRs), building on the UK Compute Roadmap (July 2025) vision for a world‑class, federated compute ecosystem. This includes the planned investment of up to £750 million in a new national supercomputer service in Edinburgh and £76 million in four new NCRs.

The event will provide opportunities to:

• Discuss the vision and implementation of the NNSS, including its contribution to national research and innovation Grand Challenges, access routes, software, and user support.
• Discuss the approach to creating Community Centres of Excellence as a new consortia‑based mechanism for accessing NCRs and supporting the development of research and innovation platforms.
• Explore the development of a federated UK compute ecosystem and identify future requirements for associated Digital Research Infrastructure.

This is an interactive, user‑focused event, designed primarily for prospective users of the NNSS and NCRs. It is not primarily targeted at service directors or those managing compute services and facilities.

Please complete this form to register your interest [forms.office.com] in attending this meeting.

Registration deadline: Wednesday 20 May, 12 noon

Please note that capacity is limited; if oversubscribed, registrations will be reviewed and attendance capped. All registrants will be notified after the closing date. If you do not receive a confirmation email, unfortunately you have not been allocated a place due to limited capacity.

If you are planning on attending this event, please let us know so we can ensure that the University is represented and so we can gather your feedback post-event.