University of Warwick to offer High Performance Computing to businesses

10.09.2011
The University of Warwick is planning to sell High Performance Computing (HPC) power to businesses through OCF's enCORE service.

OCF, the data processing, management and storage provider, , an on-demand service that allows any UK business to use processing power from universities' HPC facilities, last December.

Warwick is currently developing the capability to offer the commercial service, with the intention to launch it as soon as possible.

The university joins the Science and Technology Facilities Council's Daresbury Laboratory, which was one of the first organisations to sign up to the service.

at its Centre for Scientific Computing (CSC) in November 2010.

The server and storage cluster was built using IBM hardware, including the IBM System x iDataPlex server. It uses 274 IBM System xiDataPlex dx360 M3 servers each with two Intel Xeon X5650 2.66 GHz 6 core processors.