We would like to highlight that the UKRI access to high performance computing facilities: autumn 2025 opportunity is now live on the UKRI funding finder.

This opportunity provides an open and flexible route to computational support for high quality projects across the entire UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) remit.

We particularly encourage applications that:

• involve early career researchers
• onboard and train new users
• significantly push the boundaries in computational research using high performance computing (HPC) in your field

This application process is purely for compute resource for up to 12 months. No funding is available to successful applicants.

We are looking to support a portfolio of projects across the HPC ecosystem, including but not limited to:

• extended feasibility or proof of concept studies (at a larger scale than is possible in pump priming projects)
• computational projects which may not warrant a full grant application
• computational projects linking consecutive grant applications or aiding the preparation of a full grant or fellowship application
• large amounts of compute for ambitious, computationally intensive simulations and calculations
• collaborations with industrial and international partners
• increase the development of computational science skills, such as allowing students to work jointly with project leads to achieve the aims of the proposed research, leading to improved software and coding skills, and career paths

The HPC services available are:

• ARCHER2, Tier-1 national supercomputer service: EPSRC-remit research only, NERC-remit research should follow the separate established process
• Isambard 3, Tier-2 HPC service (UKRI-remit)
• other Tier-2 HPC services (UKRI-remit): Baskerville, Bede, Cirrus, CSD3, Jade, NI-HPC, Sulis.

The closing date is 6 November 2025 4:00pm UK time.

For any queries about this opportunity, please contact researchinfrastructure@epsrc.ukri.org