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Here are some Q&As on the HPC Wales high performance computer project (see earlier posts on this blog for more information) - What are the key benefits to Wales? HPC Wales will bring a broad range of benefits across industry and academia. 1) It will support a broad portfolio of research and development in high-impact sectors bringing in an additional economic impact of £2.72m pa - £22.8m over 10 years. 2) It will support industrial engagement, innovation and commercial activity which is anticipated to develop a significant amount of employment in industry across Wales with an economic impact of £16.25m. 3) The core HPC operations of the initiative. The direct initial impact of this activity is £2.67m per annum plus a direct economic impact of some £20.15m over 10 years. 4) Linkages within supported organisations and their supply chains will create additional in direct benefits across the wider economy. 5) Anticipated it will create 405 high quality jobs. 6) It will provide opportu...

Here are some Q&As on the HPC Wales high performance computer project (see earlier posts on this blog for more information) - Can’t industry access existing HPC facilities in Wales? Some of the business in Wales will have their own in house HPC facilities, but may want to use HPC Wales for further staff training and skill development or for specific research projects using academic expertise. They are almost the easy targets for HPC Wales A great many more need help in understanding what HPC could do for them in terms of efficient product development and innovation. Access for business to the main UK HPC facilities such as HECToR or the Met Office is available but many would not know how to access the processes and applications and in reality these major UK facilities mainly cater for Academic researchers. HPC Wales will be unique in helping to open up HPC facilities to a wide range of business who would not be able to access from their current knowledge and experience base. The t...

Here are some Q&As on the HPC Wales high performance computer project (see earlier posts on this blog for more information) - What are the main objectives of HPC Wales? HPC Wales principle objective is to accelerate academic research and speed up innovation into markets. It will boost and support innovation and enterprise and provide the essential infrastructure, services and develop the high level skills to meet the needs of research and innovation in businesses. What sectors will it support? HPC Wales will help to meet the high performance computing capacity and skills needs of those priority research sectors identified by the Welsh Assembly Government (Digital and Creative industries, ICT, Environment and Energy, Bio and Life sciences, Advanced material and manufacturing, Financial and Professional Services), acting as a catalyst to bring technology to market quicker and to speed up economic development. It will also provide a cross cutting technology and research platform supp...