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NCBI - National Centre for Biotechnology

NCeSS - National Centre for e-Social Science (Manchester)

NCSA - National Center for Supercomputing Applicatons (USA)

NEES - Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

NERC - Natural Environment Research Council

NERC is one of the seven UK government Research Councils The NERC aims to support high quality basic, strategic and applied research, survey, long-term environmental monitoring and related postgraduate training in terrestrial, marine and freshwater biology and Earth, atmospheric, hydrological, oceanographic and polar sciences and Earth observation. It supports research through its research establishments, through grants to individual scientists and through support for post graduate students.

NeSC - National e-Science Centre (Edinburgh)

The National e-Science Centre, located in Edinburgh. A joint venture between the University of Edinburgh and The University of Glasgow.

NHGRI - National Human Genome Research Institute

NGI - Next Generation Internet (US federal research agencies)

NIC - Network Interface Card

NICHEF - The National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High Energy Physics (Netherlands)

NIeES - National Institute for Environmental e-Science (Cambridge)

NIS - Network Information Service

NMI - NSF Middleware Initiative

NPACI - National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (USA)

NREN - National Research and Education Network (USA). Also NASA Research and Education Network

NSF - National Science Foundation (USA)

NTP - Network Time Protocol

NVO - National Virtual Observatory (USA)

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Acknowledgments:

Some original material is from the GridPP Web site maintained by Joe Foster, University of Manchester. Additions by Rob Allan, Dharmesh Chohan, Adrian Fish and Audrienne Cutajar Bezzina.

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