HECToR
HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resource) was a British academic national supercomputer service funded by EPSRC, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and BBSRC for the UK academic community. The HECToR service was run by partners including EPCC, Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG).
| Active | October 2007 – March 2014 |
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| Sponsors | EPSRC, NERC and BBSRC |
| Operators | Partners including EPCC, STFC and NAG) |
| Location | University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Architecture | Cray XE6, 90,112 cores |
| Operating system | Cray Linux Environment |
| Memory | 90 terabytes |
| Storage | >1 petabyte |
| Speed | 800 teraflops |
| Purpose | UK academic community use |
| Website | www |
The supercomputer itself (currently a Cray XE6) was located at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The first phase came on line in October 2007, and, by the time it was decommissioned, it had been upgraded to Phase 3 configuration, with a peak performance of over 800 teraflops. Its successor is called ARCHER.
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