• Question: where/ how did you get your super computer?

    Asked by iwant2bapilot to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 29 Jun 2012.
    • Photo: James Pope

      James Pope answered on 29 Jun 2012:

      Hi iwant2bapilot,

      The supercomputer I use was funded by the University of Leeds, and we pay money to use it and for it to be maintained and run for us. If I wasn’t using the one here in Leeds (called ARC1) I’d be using either the Met Office supercomputer, which is also used to do our weather forecasts or the UK National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) supercomputer called HeCtoR, which is in Edinburgh.

      Supercomputers are really just like getting all the processors from thousands and thousands of home PC’s and linking them together to make a really powerful, fast computer.

    • Photo: Nuala Carson

      Nuala Carson answered on 2 Jul 2012:

      Hey iwant2bapilot,

      I use a supercomputer that is owned by the National Oceanography Center and is based here in Liverpool. The bought it with money the government gave them. Any scientist would works for or with the National Oceanography Center can access and use the super computer to help with their research.

      There are a couple of super computers in the UK. One of the biggest is in the Met office. I saw it once and it is hundreds of computers the size of me lined up in a room!

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