Supercomputers and the data centres they live in have an impact on the environment, and it is important for these centres to work to reduce this impact. Choices on cooling methods, data centre location, energy sources, and more, all affect the environmental impact of running these systems and data centres.
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ARCHER2 is the latest iteration of the UK National Supercomputing Service, and enables scientists to simulate the world around us in ways that are often impossible (or far too expensive) to study with physical experiments. ARCHER2 is regularly used to study topics such as how jet engines can be made more efficient, how we can design better nuclear reactors, how new drugs might work, how viruses spread, and the effects of climate change to name just a small few.
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Supercomputers are vast computers that allow us to run large, complex and cutting-edge simulations that can’t be done elsewhere. Our exhibit will showcase the good, the bad and the beautiful about supercomputers.
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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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Supercomputers are composed of very large numbers of computational cores, all working together to solve these challenges. Our hook-a-duck activity is designed demonstrate what a supercomputer is and how they work in parallel - you have 30 seconds to hook as many ducks as you can!
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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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This virtual museum showcases nearly 40 years of supercomputers at EPCC, which hosts and manages ARCHER2 on behalf of UKRI, and how the technology has changed over time.
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Leaflets
We have created a collection of Case Studies highlighting ARCHER2 research
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Download our ARCHER2 Hardware leaflet to learn more about what is inside the cabinets.
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Leaflets
Download our Beautiful Binary leaflet to learn more about how computers store information and perform calcuations.
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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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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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We have created a collection of Postcards highlighting ARCHER2 research - all downloadable as PDF
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You can make our ARCHER2 paper plane.
Print off the template sheet, double sided.
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Challenge yourself
to one of our wordsearches
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We have created a gallery of images and videos, many from the ARCHER2 Image and video competitions.
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ARCHER2 is made of 23 cabinets containing 5,848 nodes. It requires specialist staff and facilities to run, plus a massive power supply - it’s not possible to transport parts of it to science festivals and other events! For that reason, we have created Wee Archie to help teach people of all ages about Supercomputers.
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Supercomputers are often made up of a large number of coupled computer cores – the brains of the computer - all working together in parallel.
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Activities
The parallel sorting game is a simple, group activity to show why parallel computers are needed. It’s very hands-on and does not require a computer or other technology to play. Players complete a sorting task in groups of various sizes, and see how the number of objects sorted changes with the size of group.
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A supercomputer is an extremely fast computer,usually millions of times faster than a normal home computer.
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Supercomputers allow us to understand things that are too difficult to see or measure in real life.
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