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IBM eServer p5 575 computer cluster, of the type used in HPCx
HPCx was a supercomputer (actually a cluster of IBM eServer p5 575 high-performance servers) located at the Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire , England . The supercomputer was maintained by the HPCx Consortium, UoE HPCX Ltd, which was led by the University of Edinburgh : EPCC , with the Science and Technology Facilities Council and IBM . The project was funded by EPSRC . [ 1]
The HPCx was the flagship UK academic supercomputer from its creation in December 2002, to 2007 when the larger HECToR system was installed.[ 2] The HPCx service ended in January 2010.
References
^ "HPCx - About HPCx" . Retrieved 2007-10-13 .
^ Henty, David; Gray, Alan (2009), "Comparison of the UK National Supercomputer Services: HPCx and HECToR" , Parallel Scientific Computing and Optimization , vol. 27, New York, NY: Springer New York, pp. 115–124, doi :10.1007/978-0-387-09707-7_10 , ISBN 978-0-387-09706-0 , retrieved 2024-10-15
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