HECToR

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HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is a supercomputer procured by EPSRC for the UK academic community. It is located at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The first phase came online in October, 2007, and has a peak performance of around 60 TeraFLOPS. The HECToR service will be run by a consortium including EPCC - the University's supercomputing centre, STFC and Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG). The second phase is planned for October 2009, with a peak performance around 250 TeraFLOPS, and the third phase is planned for 2011.

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[edit] Hardware

At start of operations, HECToR featured 60 Cray XT4 cabinets connected to 576 Tbs of backing storage. HECToR is scheduled to be upgraded in September, 2008, with the addition of a Cray Black Widow supercomputer. Backing storage is planned to increase to 934 Tbs by the end of the first phase.

[edit] Software

HECToR's operating system is UNICOS/lc. A variety of applications, compilers and utilities are available to users.

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