News archive for February 2007
University signs contract for supercomputer
A multi-million pound contract for a huge computer system which will benefit academic research across the whole of the UK is to be signed by staff from the University of Edinburgh today (Thursday February 22nd).
HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is a vast computing facility worth £113m over six years. The computer will be made […]
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HECToR: High Performance Computing Steps up Another Gear
EPSRC have signed two contracts, worth £113 million, to provide the next generation UK High End Computing service. The contracts are with UoE HPCX Ltd and NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) Ltd. UoE HPCX Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh.
HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is the latest national high […]
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BBC: Teraflops chip points to future
A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflops) has been unveiled by Intel.
…Dr Mark Bull, at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre, said multi-core chips were forcing a sea-change in the programming of desktop applications.
…”It is going to require quite a revolution in software programming.”
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