The university's Climactic Research Unit (CRU) has been at the forefront of environmental research on climate change since being founded in 1972.

The university wanted to extend usage of its HPC system beyond the scientific disciplines to support research needs within the rest of the university, such as social sciences, arts and humanities. It also required a system that was faster, easier to manage and which provided more power.

UEA brought in systems integrator Viglen. UEA said it needed a system that provided it with more intelligence and features than the Sun Grid Engine and Cluster Vision systems it already had in place.

Viglen deployed Platform Computing's HPC management software to support UEA more than doubling its HPC core capacity from 900 to more than 2,000 cores to meet its needs.

Platform's system offers advanced cluster management and scheduling, lowering the administration burden on the IT department.