SAVE the National Service for comp. chem. software

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   Name: Peter B. Karadakov on Aug 5, 2008

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   Name: Anonymous on Sep 1, 2008

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   Name: Dr Paul Hodgkinson on Sep 1, 2008

   Comments: Putting everything into responsive mode is barmy. The whole point of strategic investments, such as the National Services, is that they provide shared facilities which save money that would be otherwise wasted on duplicated facilities.

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   Name: David Hodgson on Sep 1, 2008

   Comments: The massive cost effectiveness of such services is undeniable, so why get rid of something that is (relatively) cheap given the impacts these services have on the underpinning of physical sciences in the UK

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   Name: Hendrik Nahler on Sep 1, 2008

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   Name: P.W. Dyer on Sep 2, 2008

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   Name: Martyn P Coles on Sep 2, 2008

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   Name: Alan Kenwright on Sep 2, 2008

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   Name: PROFJUDITH A K HOWARD, FRS on Sep 2, 2008

   Comments: This service has been essential for underpinning the research of many groups over many years and has evolved to keep pace with modern methods, providing up to date IT services as well as the computational power and interfaces needed by research staff and training students/PDRAs. The UK needs to 'up' its skills set. Closing down widely used national services such as NSCCS will not support the recent pleas from CBI, employers and educationalists, who compare our trained manpower adversely to other countries. Cutting funding to individual researchers [EPSRC Chemistry panels recent success rates 4-10% !!] has demotivated staff across the board and maintaining central facilities/services becomes even more important if there are no resources available to these academics locally. The EPSRC should re-think its policies and look to longer term strategic issues if previously ring fenced, crucial, under-pinning support activities are to be curtailed without warning.

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    Name: Chris Greenwell on Sep 2, 2008

    Comments: Keep this service and invest in it, including advertising it!

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    Name: Prof John N Hay on Sep 4, 2008

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    Name: Steve Lamond on Sep 5, 2008

    Comments: The loss of such a well-used service will put UK research at a disadvantage with respect to other countries. Perhaps more worrying is that other nationally funded services may also be similarly affected.

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    Name: Carmen Domene on Sep 8, 2008

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    Name: Neil Berry on Sep 8, 2008

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    Name: Richard Thompson on Sep 10, 2008

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    Name: Chris Jeynes on Sep 10, 2008

    Comments: This course of action by EPSRC is equivalent to terminating the Facility since it is impossible for a national service to rank highly enough in the categories suitable for responsive mode grants. Such a course of action runs aounter to EPSRC's declared policy

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    Name: Dr Eckart Wrede on Sep 16, 2008

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    Name: Donna Blackmond on Sep 28, 2008

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    Name: Prof Stephen Neidle on Sep 28, 2008

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    Name: Georgina Aitken on Sep 28, 2008

    Comments: The nsccs is an invaluable tool for any chemist who needs to learn and use computational chemistry software but may not have the personal resources to run the sometimes expensive calculations. Nsccs can offer a wide variety of people the chance to run such calculations at reasonable cost.

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    Name: Andy Wilson on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Robin Westacott on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Jennifer Green on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Dr M. A. Carroll on Sep 29, 2008

    Comments: The service has been critical in supporting our EPSRC funded research

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    Name: B L Sharp on Sep 29, 2008

    Comments: My group are first time users of the the NSCCS service having commenced our current project in July 2007. The training/support and access to high level software has had a major impact on a number of our projects and improved the quality of our science. I find it hard to understand the logic of stopping this national service which is a highly efficient way of providing access to computational chemistry.

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    Name: David Nutt on Sep 29, 2008

    Comments: The NSCCS provides an invaluable resource to the academic community in the UK, particularly those who do not have the resources to design, buy, run and maintain their own computer cluster and associated software. It is therefore an essential service, available to everyone, for performing high quality computational research.

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    Name: William O George on Sep 29, 2008

    Comments: The facility has been crucial in providing opportunities to staff and research students. High standards have been achieved by the excellent support of the teams at Imperial College and RAL Didcot. The interactions have been inspirational

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    Name: Wynne Evans on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Jonathan Goodman on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Jonathan Goodman on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Ian Williams on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Paul Mulheran on Sep 29, 2008

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    Name: Henry Rzepa on Sep 30, 2008

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    Name: Dr J. Robin Fulton on Sep 30, 2008

    Comments: The continuation of NSCCS and other national services is vital for the health of UK research, keeping the UK competitive at an international level, as well as ensuring that the next generation of UK scientists have enough support to start and continue their research careers.

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    Name: Martin Grayson on Sep 30, 2008

    Comments: The service is so useful, by providing access to the many programs which chemists need to use. If one had to implement, and maintain all the programs oneself it would take most of the year. This is not to mention the training and documentation service.

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    Name: Rhobert Lewis on Sep 30, 2008

    Comments: This service is unique in that it offers supercomputer support for theoretical calculations within computational chemistry to institutions irrespective of geographical location and computer facilities within the organisation. This is particularly valuable with smaller institutions which are not based in cities. It is difficult to see where equivalent support will be provided once the facility terminates.

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    Name: Dr Lawrence Davies on Sep 30, 2008

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    Name: Stephen H. Ashworth on Sep 30, 2008

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    Name: Anonymous on Oct 5, 2008

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