The machine is designed to enable discoveries in globally significant fields such as aircraft engineering, extreme weather events and drug discovery for cancer.
The machine marks a step-change in the country鈥檚 compute power and aims to cement the UK鈥檚 status as a leader in supercomputing.
Edinburgh was selected as the home for the project based on its prior expertise, hosting ARCHER2, which was used in Covid drug discovery and by companies like Rolls-Royce. But Scotland's cooler climate also helps cut cooling costs and carbon impact.
Excess heat from the new computer, already more energy efficient than its predecessors, will be used to warm university buildings, with plans in place to research its use in local home heating, by warming water in disused mines.
Site demolition has been kept to a minimum to reduce environmental impacts and a number of sustainability projects are planned with the construction team, including tree planting, protecting ancient trees, and conservation projects for local wildlife.
Construction work on the building, which is around the size of a supermarket, is being carried out by Robertson 萝莉原创 Central East.
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