The University of Bristol has taken the wraps off a £7m supercomputer known
as 'BlueCrystal' which will assist research on climate change, drug design and
aerospace engineering.
BlueCrystal is capable of more than 37 trillion calculations a second, and is
the result of a collaboration between various companies including IBM and
ClearSpeed.
The supercomputer will support 160 researchers across the University, and
help climatologists in the school of geographical sciences to monitor ice sheets
in the Antarctic.
Other beneficiaries include technicians in the department of biochemistry
searching for anti-cancer drugs aimed at preventing secondary tumours developing
from breast cancer.
Computational modelling should help the department's researchers save time by
screening for suitable compounds, rather than undertaking exhaustive screening
processes in the laboratory.
"Serious research in many disciplines can no longer be undertaken without
high performance computing, and the University has recognised this through its
investment in BlueCrystal," said Dr Ian Stewart, director of Bristol's advanced
computing research centre.
"HPC-based research contributes significantly to University research income
and will play an increasingly important role in teaching."
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