Manchester gets supercomputing

University takes on system to do complex simulations

The University of Manchester is installing a supercomputer to carry out advanced experiments and physical process simulations.

The Bull Novascale system will have 208 Itanium 2 processors and will be capable of a peak performance of 1.33 trillion calculations a second.

Experiments such as climate change simulations and molecular modelling will be quicker and cheaper to conduct on the new computer, says Terry Hewitt, Manchester University’s director of research computing.

‘In things such as molecular modelling the computer can do in days what would take years to do in reality,’ he said.

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