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ARCHER - Supercomputers
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| ARCHER | |
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| General Info | |
| Sponsors | EPSRC |
| Designers | Cray |
| Operators | EPSRC |
| Introduction | March 2014 |
| Retired | November 2019 |
| Peak FLOPS | 2.6 petaFLOPS |
| Price | £43,000,000 |
| Succession | |
ARCHER (Advanced Research Computing High End Resource) is HECToR's successor, a petascale x86 supercomputer serving as the UK's primary academic research supercomputer. ARCHER begun operations in March 2014 becoming the most powerful system in UK and the 19th most powerful on the TOP500 at the time. ARCHER is expected to be succeeded by ARCHER 2 in 2020.
Facts about "ARCHER - Supercomputers"
| designer | Cray + |
| discontinuation date | November 2019 + |
| introductory date | March 2014 + |
| logo |  + |
| main image |  + |
| name | ARCHER + |
| operator | EPSRC + |
| peak flops (double-precision) | 2.6e+15 FLOPS (2,600,000,000,000 KFLOPS, 2,600,000,000 MFLOPS, 2,600,000 GFLOPS, 2,600 TFLOPS, 2.6 PFLOPS, 0.0026 EFLOPS, 2.6e-6 ZFLOPS) + |
| release price | $ 53,086,419.75 (€ 47,777,777.78, £ 43,000,000.00, ¥ 5,485,419,753.09) + |
| sponsor | EPSRC + |
