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Virtual Tour

ARCHER2, the UK’s National Supercomputing Service, stands as a world-class advanced computing resource for UK researchers. Powered by the HPE Cray EX supercomputing system, ARCHER2 boasts an estimated peak performance of 28 Pflop/s. With 5,848 nodes, each housing dual AMD EPYCTM 7742 64-core processors clocked at 2.25GHz, the machine contains a total of 750,080 cores. Running ARCHER2 requires specialist staff and facilities, along with a massive power supply. The system is capable of over eleven times the scientific throughput of its predecessor, ARCHER.

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Deep Dive

Download our Deep Dive leaflet to find out about the parts that make up a Supercomputer, and why Supercomputers are super!

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Sensational Switches

Download our Sensational Switches leaflet to learn more about switches, transistors, logic, sensors and more, and you can even try building your own circuits to try things out.

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Postcards

We have created a collection of Postcards highlighting ARCHER2 research - all downloadable as PDF

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Paper plane

You can make our ARCHER2 paper plane.

Print off the template sheet, double sided.

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Word Searches

Challenge yourself

to one of our wordsearches