University of Edinburgh buys French supercomputer The University of Edinburgh is to buy a BullSequana XH2000 supercomputer from Atos of France. “The system will constitute the extreme scaling service of the UK’s DiRAC HPC facility,” according to Atos. “The platform will allow scientists across the STFC theory community to drive research in particle physics, among other areas, using Nvidia GPUs and AMD processors.” DiRAC (distributed research utilising advanced computing) combines high-performance computing resources hosted by the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge, Durham and Leic...