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. ___________________________________________________________ Joy Davidson Associate Director Digital Curation Centre (DCC) HATII, University of Glasgow 11 University Gardens Glasgow G12 8QJ Tel: 0141 330 8592 Email: joy.david...@glasgow.ac.uk http://www.dcc.ac.uk http://www.gla.ac.uk/hatii
