E-Mail IMAGE: Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny of the University of Sussex School of Engineering and Informatics. view more Credit: Stuart Robinson/University of Sussex University of Sussex academics have established a method of turbocharging desktop PCs to give them the same capability as supercomputers worth tens of millions of pounds. Dr James Knight and Prof Thomas Nowotny from the University of Sussex's School of Engineering and Informatics used the latest Graphical Processing Units (GPUs) to give a single desktop PC the capacity to simulate brain models of almost unlimited size. The researchers believe the innovation, detailed in