High Speed Hector
Posted by Jason on
January 21, 2008
Hats off to HECToR, now officially the fastest super computer in the UK. Hector or to its close friends, High End Computing Terrascale Resource is has been built for the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility and is capable of processing 63 trillion calculations or teraflops each second, rising to 250 teraflops later next year. Even at it’s current modest top speed it has the equivalent processing power of more than twelve thousand desktop PCs, which may go some way to explaining the £130 million price tag. A number of big computing jobs have been lined up for Hector, including forecasting climate change, developing new medicines and tracking disease outbreaks, it probably plays a mean game of Solitaire as well…
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