The facility’s website is the best way to find how to access the facility, but this web page can help you find the facility or resource you need, and check how to use it.
You do not always need EPSRC funding to use EPSRC’s facilities and resources. Some are also available to businesses, organisations and researchers without EPSRC funding.
If you’re applying for EPSRC research funding
Discuss your research proposal with the facility or service you want to use before submitting your application. You usually need confirmation that you can use the facility or resource. You might also need a technical assessment that includes a costing for the value of using the facility or resource, to include in your application.
Check the funding application for more information about including facilities in your application.
Including major national or international facilities in your application
You usually need to apply directly to major UK or international facilities, as well as including them in your funding application.
Including high-performance computing services in your application
You can include computational time from the following services in your EPSRC funding application:
- Archer2 – tier one service (for simulations and calculations that need parallelised processing cores)
If you want to include tier two services in your application, you need to discuss your research proposal with EPSRC before applying.
Discuss your proposal with EPSRC
Email: researchinfrastructure@epsrc.ukri.org
End of ARCHER2 service
The ARCHER2 service ends on 21 November 2026.
High performance computing (HPC) provision for ARCHER2 is not guaranteed after this date.
If you need HPC provision after November 2026, you need to explore alternative provisions, such as other UKRI provisions or commercial HPC services.
Where you are seeking to use other UKRI provisions, you must adhere to the relevant access process. Where you are seeking to use commercial HPC services, the full cost of access to commercial HPC services must be included in your application.
Applying for high-performance computing resources only
EPSRC invites applications for access to HPC services. You do not have to be an EPSRC grant holder to apply. The deadlines for applying are usually every six months.
You can also check other ways to apply for:
- ARCHER2 tier one services
- tier 2 high performance computing services.