£52 Million Govt Funding for New UK Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 3, 2006 @06:27AM 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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Re:Born Yesterday? by zippthorne · 2006-04-03 06:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

TFA stated that it is only so capable for "short bursts" but why the overclocked speed of the machine would even be mentioned is a mystery to me. Intel doesn't sell chips based on how fast they could be overclocked, do they?

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