Research Computing Services


Research Computing Services, provides the focus for the University of Manchester's activities in supercomputing or high-performance computing, grid computing or e-science and computational science. Research Computing Services activities include services, training and research & development.

Supercomputers

The University of Manchester has been home to many supercomputers, starting from the 1948 Manchester Baby - the world's first stored program computer. Others have included CDC7600, a CDC Cyber 205, VP1200, VPX and 240/10. The CSAR service supercomputers included a 576 PE Cray T3E-1200E, and SGI Origin 3000 and Altix systems. More recently some large clusters have been installed.

National Computing Services

Research Computing Services and its predecessors have been providing computing services nationally in the UK since the 1970s. Manchester Computing operated the UK's 1998-2006 national supercomputer service with SGI and CSC Ltd. It currently operates other national computer services in the UK, including the Access Grid Support Centre and, as part of consortia, the and .

Research Centres

Research Computing Services is a part of several research centres including , and the UK's .