The White Rose Grid e-Science Centre brings together those researchers from the Yorkshire region and their national and international partners who are engaged in the development and use of innovative digital technologies, including grid computing, e-Science and cloud computing.

The EPSRC funded Centre is part of the successful White Rose Grid (WRG) initiative, which was established in 2002 to support research communities of the three major research Universities in Yorkshire – Leeds, Sheffield and York.
The White Rose Grid operates under the auspices of the White Rose University Consortium. This is a collaborative venture of computer scientists, academic ICT service providers (Leeds ISS and Sheffield CICS) and commerial IT partner Esteem Systems.