Forget Hal, say hello to Alice.

The article looks at the move of several universities in Great Britain to launch state-of-the-art facilities for supercomputing despite the prospect of public funding cuts. Universities in Cardiff and Swansea invested 44 million pounds for the High Performance Computing Wales project. The University...

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Publicado en:Times Higher Education no. 1962; pp. 20 - 21
Autor principal: Jump, Paul
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Publicado: TSL Education Limited 8/26/2010
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Sumario:The article looks at the move of several universities in Great Britain to launch state-of-the-art facilities for supercomputing despite the prospect of public funding cuts. Universities in Cardiff and Swansea invested 44 million pounds for the High Performance Computing Wales project. The University of Leicester claims that its new Alice supercomputer is 10 times more powerful than its predecessor. Meanwhile, Lancaster University invested 4 million pounds for its supercomputing facility.