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BlueCrystal Phase 4

• BlueCrystal Phase 4 is here. Read the University's press release about the new supercomputer, ranked 301st in the world.

Press coverage about BlueCrystal Phase 4

BlueCrystal Phase 4 launch and Best of BlueCrystal Awards - Wednesday 24 May, 2017

The launch of BlueCrystal Phase 4 coincides with 10 years of BlueCrystal at the University of Bristol. To mark this occasion, we hosted a celebration launch event that demonstrated the range of research that BlueCrystal has supported over the years.

We also invited submissions from the BlueCrystal user community for the most innovative and exciting research that has been undertaken using BlueCrystal,and to support teaching and improving the student experience. A number of prizes were presented at the launch, by Professor Guy Orpen, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Bristol. We are very grateful to Lenovo, who have supplied the Phase 4 compute nodes, for the donation of 3 Lenovo tablets as prizes.

The winners of the Lenovo tablets, Simon McIntosh-Smith, James Price, Dr Robin Corey and Professor Paul Valdes, with Professor Guy Orpen and Matt Ziegler, Director of HPC, Lenovo.
Image courtesy of Dave Pratt.

News

• The University of Bristol is one of the key academic partners in a new collaboration announced by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) on Monday 16 April to accelerate the adoption of supercomputers in the UK.

• The GW4 Alliance, together with Cray Inc. and the Met Office, has been awarded £3m by EPSRC to deliver a new Tier 2 high performance computing (HPC) service for UK-based scientists. Read the full story here.

• Researchers from the University of Bristol have used state-of-the-art computer simulation to test a theory from the 1950s that when atoms organise themselves into 3D pentagons they suppress crystallisation.

BlueCrystal on the University's news pages:

• BlueCrystal used to simulate the climate of Game of Thrones.

• BlueCrystal used to shed light on the origins of the chloroplast.

• BlueCrystal used in increasing understanding of the glass transition.

• BlueCrystal used in study showing how Ebola evolved during the outbreak in West Africa

• BlueCrystal used in identifying whether glass is a true solid

• BlueCrystal used to compare how bat and human cells respond to viruses

• Scientific breakthrough will help design the antibiotics of the future

• Bristol joins Intel Parallel Computing Center to collaborate on parallel computing

• BlueCrystal used by local schools to design and race a virtual supersonic car.

HPC related talks

• Talk given by Simon McIntosh-Smith entitled 'It's the end of the world as we know it' at EPSRC on the future of HPC, 20 March 2015.

• "Optimising the Mantevo benchmark suite for multi- and many-core architectures" by Simon McIntosh-Smith at St John's College, Oxford on 18 March 2015

HPC Report 2014

We have put together a report showcasing some of the exciting research being undertaken on BlueCrystal. A pdf copy is here. If you would like a paper copy, please contact Caroline Gardiner.

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News Archive

An archive of news stories and events is available here.