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    Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    SuperPOD machine inauguration is today. It wIll mainly be used for life science research.
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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    Sounds great, until you remember the fact that the 'UK's most powerful supercomputer' is firmly in the little leagues compared to others.

    ..and I'm not just talking about the USA & China, but some countries in the EU, who can't compete with the UK's University base, have more powerful examples.

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    More government investment would help but, Tory governments, over the last 11 years, have been completely unable to grasp the importance of education and scientific research. As long as Eton is doing OK, nothing else matters...

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    I am reliably informed it can play Crysis.

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    Quote Originally Posted by Friesiansam View Post
    More government investment would help but, Tory governments, over the last 11 years, have been completely unable to grasp the importance of education and scientific research. As long as Eton is doing OK, nothing else matters...
    Yawn

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    Quote Originally Posted by Bagpuss View Post
    Sounds great, until you remember the fact that the 'UK's most powerful supercomputer' is firmly in the little leagues compared to others.

    ..and I'm not just talking about the USA & China, but some countries in the EU, who can't compete with the UK's University base, have more powerful examples.
    But is it even needed?

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    Quote Originally Posted by ultrasbm View Post
    But is it even needed?
    It is - if you look at biomedical base its one of the strongest in the world,and bioinformatics is a key part of it. I remember seeing the amount of computer power needed for the Human Genome Project - in Cambridge there were floors of server infrastructure needed for it.

    Then the other aspect is also for things such as physics - in many countries supercomputers are used to model the nuclear reactions,needed for weapons and energy research.

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    I would like to think that the name was inspired by the Science of Cambridge MK14 (I couldn't find a FLOPS rating for it).

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    Re: Nvidia Cambridge-1 is the UK's most powerful supercomputer

    Quote Originally Posted by Friesiansam View Post
    More government investment would help but, Tory governments, over the last 11 years, have been completely unable to grasp the importance of education and scientific research. As long as Eton is doing OK, nothing else matters...
    They did just announce the Advanced Research and Invention Agency about a month a go.

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