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£52 Million Govt Funding for New UK Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the more-flops-a-good-thing dept.

Lancey writes "The BBC reports that the UK government has contributed £52 million towards the building of the High-End Computing Terascale Resource to replace two existing supercomputers currently in use by British scientists. The story claims a maximum speed of 100 teraflops, although it is unlikely that the machine will ever be pushed to this limit. Some of the government funding will also be used to train scientists and programmers to develop software capable of exploiting the machine's potential."

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  1. Thinking ahead. by RatOfTheLab · · Score: 5, Funny

    Preparation for the release of Vista, no doubt.

  2. Tony Blair a BOINC freak? by Arkham79 · · Score: 5, Funny

    wait til you see the average credit this thing gets on SETI@Home - there'll be a TBlair@10DowningSt account at the top of the list before you know it.

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  3. Let's just get this out of the way, shall we? by Black+Copter+Control · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of <kick> OW!

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  4. That's great but . . . by 02bunced · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would still take a good 10 seconds to start up OpenOffice.org

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