The MidPlus regional High Performance Computing (HPC) resource was created in January 2012 with an investment of £2 million from EPSRC (through the E-infrastructure Interconnectivity call) and £1.5 million from the four partners – University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, University of Nottingham and Queen Mary, University of London. Access to these facilities is managed by quarterly calls and can provide larger scale compute with dedicated allocation of CPU hours.