The University of Bristol has opened a £7m supercomputer
facility to support research in areas such as climate change, drug
design and aerospace engineering.
BlueCrystal is one of the fastest and largest computers of its
kind in the UK, and can carry out more than 37 trillion
calculations a second.
The system is a result of the university's collaboration with
various companies, including ClusterVision, IBM and ClearSpeed.
Ian Stewart, director of the university's
Advanced Computing Research
Centre, said, "Serious research in many disciplines can no
longer be undertaken without high-performance computing [HPC] and
the university has recognised this through its investment in
BlueCrystal.
"HPC-based research contributes significantly to university
research income and will play an increasingly important role in
teaching."
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