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Distributed supercomputer DiRAC gets a £20m upgrade
New funding will be used to boost performance and make the HPC system much more energy efficient
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The DiRAC high-performance computing (HPC) facility has been given £20m funding to upgrade its supercomputer to support science simulation.
The new systems will be between three and five times more powerful than the existing DiRAC machines. This will provide crucial computing capacity that can be used to address immediate or emerging issues, such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
DiRAC is a distributed facility supported by the Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC). It uses computing resources hosted by the Universities of Cambridge, Durham, Edinburgh and Leicester and is overseen by the Project Office at University College London.
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The Science & Technology Facilities Council is a partner organisation within UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). UKRI is an entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, and a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
The UK has invested £99m in the
National Satellite Test Facility, in construction at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Harwell. This facility will provide a world class set of co-located families for the assembly, integration and testing of space payloads and satellites. The facility will have the capability to conduct Vibration, Acoustic, Thermal, Pyroshock, Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) and antennae testing for payloads up to 7 tonnes within clean room conditions. The NSTF is currently in the early construction phase, anticipated to finish construction in 2020, and moving into facility commissioning in 2020/21.