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HECToR
hector phase3.jpg
General Info
SponsorsEPSRC,
NERC,
BBSRC
DesignersCray
OperatorsEPCC
IntroductionOctober 2007
RetiredMarch 24 2014
Peak FLOPS829 teraFLOPS
Price$85,000,000
Succession

HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) was terascale x86 supercomputer serving as the UK's primary academic research supercomputer. HECToR has been superceded by ARCHER.

Overview

HECToR was a UK academic national supercomputer service funded by NERC, EPSRC, and BBSRC for the academic community.

designerCray +
discontinuation dateMarch 24 2014 +
introductory dateOctober 2007 +
logoFile:hector phase3.jpg +
nameHECToR +
operatorEPCC +
peak flops (double-precision)829,000,000,000,000 FLOPS (829,000,000,000 KFLOPS, 829,000,000 MFLOPS, 829,000 GFLOPS, 829 TFLOPS, 0.829 PFLOPS, 8.29e-4 EFLOPS, 8.29e-7 ZFLOPS) +
release price$ 85,000,000.00 (€ 76,500,000.00, £ 68,850,000.00, ¥ 8,783,050,000.00) +
sponsorEPSRC +, NERC + and BBSRC +