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Northern Ireland is to get what's touted as its first HPC service, courtesy of a deal between Fujitsu and HPC Wales. Extending a collaboration that's been in place since 2012, HPC Wales says the vendor will sling £1.1 million towards the service, and seek collaborations from Irish business and academic partners. HPC Wales has …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    Scottish Power in Wales

    This is good news for Wales. We do have Scottish Power who took over Manweb running the electricity supply here in North Wales.

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    1. Semtex451
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      WTF?

      Re: Scottish Power in Wales

      Are you in the right place?

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  2. Phil O'Sophical Silver badge
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    Times change

    This sort of remote arrangement isn't new, when I was at Queen's University in Belfast at the end of the 70's any "supercomputing" needs were handled by submitting jobs to the CDC 7600 at Daresbury in Cheshire. You could burn up a month's computer allowance in minutes. Today I probably have more computing power on my mobile phone!

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