So by reckoning if you use all the cores it's £7,439.04 per hour. It will have paid for itself in 134 hours (just over a week). Doesn't sound like a bargain.
Edinburgh University to flog its supercomputer for £0.0369 per core hour
The University of Edinburgh's supercomputer, Cirrus, is now being rented to businesses for their mega-performance computing needs. Cirrus is housed at the University's Advanced Computing Facility at Easter Bush, which also hosts the UK's national supercomputing service, ARCHER, although it doesn't really compare to ARCHER's …
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Wednesday 5th October 2016 17:04 GMT wikkity
Re: Edinburgh gets in quick before the Met Office!
Say what you want about the met office, the forecasts for a particular location are good. The TV broadcasts are rubbish as you have to expect with a country where it's possible to drive out of a fog covered town into clear sunny weather and into rain all within a few miles. Just slapping on a generalised cloud or sun for several counties is just that, generalised.
Their climate models on the other hand, seem to predict whatever they get more money more to plough into research. At least this appeared to be the case 5+ years ago, not looked at them for a long time.
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Wednesday 5th October 2016 15:03 GMT Korev
Information security etc?
Have they got people prepared to work with Industry regarding information security, lifecycle etc. We [big pharma] have a lot of rules* that we have to follow and the academic institutions I've worked with usually are surprised by this.
*Some are sensible eg patient confidentiality