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NERC policy on access to ARCHER2: non-NERC or international grants (PDF)
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Details
The Academic Research Computing High End Resource (ARCHER2) access is free at the point of use for the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded science.
NERC is also happy to allow access through the NERC consortia by non-NERC-funded scientists in the NERC remit, where time or resource is available, and such access is consistent with the NERC remit.
This document details the NERC policy on access to the ARCHER2 HPC service for non-NERC and internationally funded grants.
As part of the Comprehensive Spending Review in June 2025 the UK government committed up to £750 million into a new national supercomputer service hosted at The University of Edinburgh.
The new national supercomputer will replace the current ARCHER2 supercomputer, with this service due to end on 21 November 2026.
During the gap between the cessation of ARCHER2 and the new supercomputer coming online researchers are advised to explore alternative provisions such as other UKRI and DSIT provisions or commercial HPC services.
Updates
- 27 August 2025
Details section updated to reflect cessation of ARCHER2 - 19 June 2025
Policy document updated. - 16 June 2025
New paragraph added to the end of 'Details' to reflect availability of ARCHER2. - 26 February 2024
Document replaced with minor updates for clarity.