by Angela Guess

A recent press release reports, “Global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. today announced the Company will provide a Cray® Urika®-GX system to the Alan Turing Institute through a collaboration between Cray, Intel, and the Institute. Hosted at the University of Edinburgh in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the Cray Urika-GX system will provide researchers at the Alan Turing Institute with a dedicated analytics hardware platform, enabling the development of advanced applications across a number of scientific fields including engineering and technology, defense and security, smart cities, financial services and life sciences.”

The release continues, “The Alan Turing Institute is the United Kingdom’s national institute for data science, and brings together researchers from a range of disciplines to tackle core challenges in data science theory and application. The Institute is named in honor of Alan Turing, whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering, and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising data science. With the addition of the Cray Urika-GX system, the Institute’s researchers will have access to Cray’s agile analytics platform, which fuses supercomputing technologies with an open, enterprise-ready software framework for big data analytics.”

Sir Alan Wilson, CEO of the Alan Turing Institute, noted, “The Alan Turing Institute was created to advance the world-changing potential of data science… Our researchers require powerful computing technology in order to enable their research, and the Cray system, based in the University of Edinburgh, one of our founding university partners, will be an important addition to the Turing’s data science toolkit. We look forward to opening it up to our community of researchers and enabling their innovation to thrive.”

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