High Performance Computing
Our High Performance Computing (HPC) service is a £2 million investment, which demonstrates the importance of computational research.
About Rocket
The high-performance computer, also known as Rocket, is used for modelling and solving complex research problems. It helps support many computationally intensive research areas, including:
- sea level change and climate change analysis
- infrastructure modelling
- bioinformatics
- fluid dynamics
- medical statistics
- computational chemistry
Rocket is equipped with:
- more than 5,000 cores
- 123 compute nodes
- an InfiniBand connection
- 500TB of storage
Our on-campus provision complements the Tier 2 HPC we can access through the N8 Research Partnership and the national Archer2 facility.
Rocket is available to all staff and students. Doctoral and early-career researchers can use it for research and career development.