{"id":2961,"date":"2010-10-27T13:56:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T12:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2961"},"modified":"2010-10-27T13:56:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-27T12:56:08","slug":"whats-happened-to-big-box-hpc-in-uk-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=2961","title":{"rendered":"What’s happened to big-box HPC in UK Universities?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was having a quick browse through the current Top-500 supercomputer list<\/a> and it appears to me that UK Universities hardly feature at all.\u00a0 We’ve got Hector at Edinburgh University in at number 26 but that’s the UK’s National <\/strong>facility so we’d expect it to be good.<\/p>\n

Other than that, we have The University of Southampton at Number 83, The University of Bristol at Number 378 and that seems to be about it (please correct me if I’m wrong).\u00a0 There are a few more UK-based installations in the top-500 but none of them are in Universities as far as I can tell.<\/p>\n

I’m a little surprised by this since I thought that we (UK academia) would give a better account of ourselves.\u00a0 Does it matter that we don’t have more boxes in the top-500 within UK Academia?\u00a0 Is everyone doing research on smaller scale Beowulf clusters<\/a>, condor pools<\/a>, GP-GPUs<\/a> and fully tricked-out 12 core desktops these days?\u00a0 Is the need for big boxes receding?\u00a0 Any insight anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was having a quick browse through the current Top-500 supercomputer list and it appears to me that UK Universities hardly feature at all.\u00a0 We’ve got Hector at Edinburgh University in at number 26 but that’s the UK’s National facility so we’d expect it to be good. Other than that, we have The University of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walking-randomly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-LL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2965,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2961\/revisions\/2965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}