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Published online 14 January 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.433
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Britain upgrades its number cruncher
How will Britain's new supercomputer affect researchers?
Britain's whizziest new computer, going by the name of HECToR (high-end computing terascale resource), officially opens today. The computer's 60 teraflops (trillion operations per second) have been up and running since autumn 2007, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling today marks the official start by unveiling a plaque at Edinburgh University’s Advanced Computing Facility.
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