The University of Edinburgh has been announced as the preferred location for the first phase of the new Exascale supercomputer service.
Funding for the new service was announced by Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in the Spring Budget as part of an investment of around £900 million in both Exascale and a separate artificial intelligence (AI) research resource.
Exascale supercomputers are capable of performing a billion billion calculations every second. This enormous power can be used to create computer models of the world around us to test theories, explore ideas and optimise designs.
They have applications across all areas of scientific and industrial research and provide an unrivalled platform for interdisciplinary research and innovation such as drug discovery, designing new materials, and weather and climate prediction.
