UK’s Next National Supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh | EPCC

Powering the UK’s next wave of discovery

The UK’s next national supercomputer – owned by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and hosted at the University of Edinburgh – will deliver world-leading high-performance computing to researchers and innovators across the UK.

Why do we need a new supercomputer?

The new machine is expected to be around 50 times more powerful than the UK’s current national supercomputer, ARCHER2. It will be able to carry out incredibly complex calculations in seconds and minutes instead of years.

This will help make previously near-impossible calculations routine.

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From designing aircraft engines and MRI scanners to developing the materials inside our mobile phones and modelling extreme weather events, supercomputers touch our everyday lives in ways we don’t always realise.

Professor Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC, explains why investing in supercomputing is important and how the UK’s next national supercomputer will be used to transform medicine, engineering and climate science, benefiting society and the planet.

Discover how the team at EPCC are putting sustainability at the heart of planning, and why hosting it in Scotland helps to keep water and energy use to a minimum.

What will it allow us to do?

The UK’s next national supercomputer will power high-impact research and innovation across the country, supporting a range of priority fields.

By enabling modelling, simulation and scientific testing at an unprecedented scale, it will help researchers and partners deliver faster insights and highly accurate results. This increased capability will strengthen the UK’s national research base in the following key areas: