What role does your organization, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, play with respect to HECToR?
Nicholson: We’re one of seven research councils in the UK. EPSRC serves as the agent for procuring High End Computing academic services for three of the research councils: EPSRC, BBSRC and NERC. We run the procurement and provide a large share of the funding. EPSRC was formed in 1993 as an evolution of a previous research council called the Scientific and Engineering Research Council. Together, the seven UK research councils are roughly equivalent to America’s NSF and NIH. The EPSRC itself is governed by a council consisting of leading researchers and industrialists in the UK. They act like a board of directors. Officially, the EPSRC is a nondepartmental government body. In sum, we’re a government body that serves as a funding agency. HPCwire: The initial system is a 63-peak-teraflop Cray XT4 that will morph in stages to a 250-teraflop system. Can you shed more light on that? Nicholson: First, the Cray XT4 system is fully installed and working. It was installed in the August 2007 perio
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