UK university consortium gets £3.7m for HPC innovation centre
Four British universities are sharing computing resources to encourage use of HPC
By Sophie Curtis | Techworld | Published: 15:00, 26 March 2012
http://news.techworld.com/data-centre/3346980/uk-university-consortium-gets-37m-for-hpc-innovation-centre/
The universities of Southampton, Bristol, Oxford and University College London have joined forces with the e-Science Centre at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories, to form a new Centre of Innovation for the application of High Performance Computing.
The consortium of universities will share computing resources including hardware, software applications, support services and skills to encourage wider use of HPC in both academia and industry. It has been awarded a total of £3.7 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the creation and operation of the centre.
The lion's share of the funding (£2.2 million) has been awarded to the University of Southampton, to upgrade its Iridis3 supercomputer. A 12,000-core Intel Westmere-based architecture is now being installed, doubling its original performance and enabling more than 115 trillion calculations per second.
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