HECToR, the Edinburgh-based supercomputer used by UK researchers to tackle science's more thorny mathematical problems, is having petabytes of disk and tape storage installed in a massive storage expansion. HECToR stands for the High End Computing Terra Scale Resource and has been built in several phases. It is a Cray-built …

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Friday 27th July 2012 08:50 GMT Anonymous Coward

"Massive Array of Idle Disks"

This is publicly funded computing, obviously.

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Friday 27th July 2012 09:02 GMT g e

Hector?

Wasn't that the insane robo-mech-thing in Saturn 3 ?

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1. Friday 27th July 2012 09:26 GMT Christine Hedley
  
  Re: Hector?
  
  I prefer to think of the eponymous hero of Hector's House.
  
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Friday 27th July 2012 09:42 GMT Bill Fresher

"HECToR stands for the High End Computing Terra Scale Resource" (HECTSR).

Instead of a massive storage upgrade perhaps they should have first got around to installing a spell-check.

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1. Friday 27th July 2012 10:02 GMT Destroy All Monsters
  
  These Terrans think their scale is high end!
  
  laughing_reticulans.jpg
  
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Friday 27th July 2012 09:54 GMT K

Supercomputing wiring hell: HECTOR cabling.

Nah.. thats tidy, you should see my racks!

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Friday 27th July 2012 09:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Maybe

It was certainly the angry space-dust planet-enveloping mega-computer from THHGTTG that decided that destroying the entire universe would be a good move.

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Friday 27th July 2012 10:47 GMT Purlieu

OK

... gets out a copy of Crysis ..............

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Friday 27th July 2012 11:04 GMT jon 72

That's a relief

It's not just me then that gives the servers geeky Sci-Fi related names..

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Friday 27th July 2012 18:28 GMT Mr Young

Now they guys sound like they know how to make things happen!

Unlike the nonsense from Doug Mueller further down the page:-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/27/it-departments-are-teenagers/

Also - wtf is “gamification”? Is it part of real life? Enquiring minds etc

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Sunday 29th July 2012 22:57 GMT Disgruntled of TW

Son of EMAS?

Anybody else remember EMAS? Filesystem on that was certainly not separate, nor easily portable to any other head-end.. How times have changed.

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1. Monday 30th July 2012 15:59 GMT PCar
  
  Re: Son of EMAS?
  
  I remember EMAS and the problems I encountered connecting a BBC Micro to upload data for number crunching.
  
  It was an REH MRC contract which paid me more for a Saturday's work than I was earning per week as a programmer for a now gone insurance company.
  
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