UK's top computer is right here!

THE STFC Daresbury Laboratory, near Warrington is home to the most powerful supercomputer in the UK – and that’s official.
The IBE Blue Gene/Q – known as Blue Joule – has been ranked number one in the UK and number 13 in the world in the Top 500 list of supercomputers.
It is capable of more than a thousand trillion calculations per second.
Blue Joule, which is on average eight times more energy efficient than most other supercomputers, forms part of STFC’s new future software research centre at Daresbury.
The facility was announced in March this year following £37.5m investment by the Department of Business Innovation and Skills into high performance computing (HPC) in the UK, as part of its e-infrastructure initiative.
One of the world’s foremost centres in software development, the facility was formed following the start of a three year collaboration with IBM as a direct result of this investment.
Blue Joule achieved its first major milestone this week as it became the first system in the UK to run a Petaflop application – one thousand trillion calculations per second, the equivalent of a million laptops.
This represents a thousand-fold increase in supercomputing performance in the UK in 10 years, since the last such milestone, the Teraflop, was first achieved back in 2002.
Breakthroughs in HPC could result in finding cures for serious diseases or significantly improving the prediction of natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
Professor John Bancroft, head of STFC’s Campus Centre Projects, said: “Blue Joule forms a major part of our brand new HPC facility at Daresbury. “Supercomputers have become essential to the modern world, aiding research and innovation, and enabling companies to compete effectively in a global market.
“I therefore invite academic researchers and industry to come to STFC and to design and test their solutions to highly complex problems on what is now officially the UK’s largest supercomputer.”