Sci-Tech Daresbury

13 June 2013

STFC works with NVIDIA to increase UK computer performance by 1,000 times

The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has today (13 June 2013) signed an agreement with NVIDIA, the world leader in visual and high-performance computing, to develop GPU-based supercomputers that aim to be a thousand times more powerful than any in the UK today. These powerful computers will provide a step-change for researchers and industry in areas such as climate modelling, stress analysis, materials modelling, molecular modelling, and numerical weather simulation.

Leveraging NVIDIA’s expertise in high-performance computing, STFC will develop the software necessary to enable the exascale-class supercomputers which will contain hundreds of thousands of graphics processing units (GPUs) capable of performing a million trillion calculations per second.

The agreement between NVIDIA and STFC follows a £37.5m investment in March last year by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in High Performance Computing at Daresbury Laboratory as part of its UK e-infrastructure initiative. (read more)

15 April 2013

Dare to dream

Transformational Projects don’t have to be new. Sci-Tech in Daresbury, one of two National Science and Innovation Campuses established in 2006, has roots back as far as 1962 when the government opened a research laboratory on the site. A joint venture company comprising the Science and Technology Facilities Council, Halton Borough Council and property developer Langtree now runs Sci-Tech as it was renamed in 2012. (read more)

10 April 2013

SewerBatt aids in underground pipe work

Acoustic Sensing Technology has developed the SewerBatt system, which features a small speaker that can be inserted down a manhole cover, where it plays a quiet tone for 10 seconds that reverberates several hundred meters along the sewer. (read more)

19 March 2013

Materials and Manufacturing North West Launchpad briefing event

More than sixty companies came together to attend a briefing morning for the Technology Strategy Board’s (TSB) Materials and Manufacturing Launchpad at Daresbury Laboratory, Sci-Tech Daresbury on 19 March 2013. The event provided potential applicants with crucial information and advice on the Launchpad competition and the application process, as well as introducing SMEs to business support and investment suppliers. (read more)

1 February 2013

£30 million to lead global computing technology

A major new £30 million government investment was announced, 1 February 2013, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rt. Hon George Osborne, as he visited the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s Daresbury Laboratory. (read more)

24 January 2013

Shaping future success

Cheshire’s Sci-Tech Daresbury is widely regarded to be one of Britain’s leading centres for scientific excellence and innovation. (read more)

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