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A government-funded machine has become the UK’s mightiest supercomputer, with almost triple the power of thewas constructed at the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility. After being switched on in late November, it is now going through a testing period, but is already working on real science such as modelling volcanic plumes.
The computer is constructed of 5860 nodes, each with two AMD processors containing 64 cores. The machine is one of the world’s fastest general-purpose computers based on central processing units rather than graphics cards, which can excel at certain problems. Itat the University of Bristol, who worked on ARCHER2, says the bulk of the construction has been completed and the machine is now being tested and fettled.
Its predecessor, the ARCHER supercomputer, was due to be replaced in early 2020, but was kept running to work on covid-19. It finally switched off in May 2020 when it was, having tackled everything from fluid dynamics in aircraft engines to wind simulations of the North Sea. Supercomputer development is advancing at a rapid pace. UK research councils are already making plans for the country’s next-generation supercomputer, with the aim of producing an exa-scale machine by 2025. That would mean a computer more than 51 times as powerful as ARCHER2.
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