£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:Tony Blair a BOINC freak? by turgid · 2006-04-03 07:15 · Score: 0, Troll

If he was aware of SETI@home he would be there. Never has a narcisist been truer to their affliction than Mr bliar!
Yes, but how does it prevent terrorism or help him lock people up?

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