8. HPC Midlands
– hpc-midlands.ac.uk
– Centre of Excellence in High
Performance Computing
• £1m seed funding from EPSRC/BIS
– Remit is to make Supercomputing
Accessible to Industry
• Working with startups and leading firms
such as Airbus, E.ON, Rolls-Royce,
RWE npower and Tata Steel
• Flexible licensing from ISVs including
ANSYS, CD-adapco and MSC Software
15. What’s in Scope?
– Bias towards industrially
linked R&D work
– Majority of use to date has
been science and engineering
– Interest from biotech sector
– Links to big pharma and
startups/spinouts