It was funded by two governmental bodies, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).

[2] NES services are based on the Globus Toolkit for job submission and the Storage Resource Broker for data management.

The science and research ranged from the permeation of drugs through a membrane to the welfare of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom.

[11] As an example use of NES, "The motivation, methodology and implementation of an e-Social Science pilot demonstrator project entitled: Grid Enabled Micro-econometric Data Analysis (GEMEDA).

This used the NES to investigate a policy relevant social science issue: the welfare of ethnic minority groups in the United Kingdom.