High Performance Computing

Accelerating research and innovation in your organisation​

High performance computing is one of the many tools we use to help UK businesses and public sector organisations to drive forward productivity and make processes more efficient.

Our systems and platforms

Scafell Pike | Bull Sequana X1000

  • Tightly coupled Intel and Nvidia architectures
  • Includes 24,960 Intel “Skylake” cores
  • Integrated DDN Exascaler storage appliance​
  • Mellanox InfiniBand interconnect​
  • Direct liquid-cooled compute nodes

Quasar | Atos Quantum Learning Machine

  • Quantum software development service, comprising two Atos Quantum Learning Machines, each capable of simulating up to 38 quantum bits (qubits)

Key scientific areas include:​

  • ​Complex logistics and routing problems
  • Life Sciences ​
  • Physics & Engineering  ​
  • Chemistry

Immersive, connected visualisation and VR capabilities for anything from the exploration of big data to testing engineering designs. ​​

Key scientific areas include:​

  • Data analytics
  • Virtual engineering and simulation
  • Molecular modelling and materials science

SUCCESS STORIES

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Blog

Hartree Centre on Tour | SC23 Round Up

In November 2023, the Hartree Centre joined over 14,000 attendees at the world’s biggest international supercomputing conference, SC23.

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Case Studies

Accelerating the development of unique materials using computer modelling

Funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Bridging for Innovators programme, the Hartree Centre worked with material specialists Lucideon to accelerate the development of novel ceramics.

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Case Studies

Improving personal care products with advanced simulation

We’re working with Unilever, using advanced in-silico modelling capabilities to drive understanding into antimicrobial peptide interactions for future product development.

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Getting the picture of emulsion flows

Along with Unilever, we are employing computational modelling to study detailed dynamics of emulsions to optimise innovative manufacturing processes.

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Computational formulation for polymers

We worked with Johnson Matthey, using computational techniques to automate and accelerate the process of identifying properties of novel chemical formulations.

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Designing novel antimicrobial peptides

Ingenza is working with researchers based at the Hartree Centre on molecular simulation techniques with the potential to reduce the time and costs associated with bringing new drug designs to market.

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UPCOMING TRAINING

Mon 12 May 2025 – Mon 08 Sep 2025 EXPLAIN

Practical Guide to Cloud Computing

Aimed at intermediate learners, this course gives you the opportunity to secure the knowledge learned in the Beginner’s Guide to Cloud for Industry with a practical hands-on tutorial led by experts.

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Tue 03 Jun 2025 – Tue 03 Jun 2025 EXPLAIN

Fundamentals of Quantum Computing

Do you want to learn how calculations are performed on quantum computers, with practical examples on simulators and real hardware?

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Thu 12 Jun 2025 – Thu 12 Jun 2025 EXPLAIN

Fundamentals of Exascale Computing

Aimed at independent users, this one day course will present Novel portable programming models for heterogeneous computer architectures (where the computer architecture uses more than one instruction set and so requires different programs to be written for each).

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Tue 01 Jul 2025 – Tue 01 Jul 2025 EXPLAIN

Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

Aimed at independent users, this course in Reinforcement Learning (RL) will take you through some of the practical considerations to make when looking at how Reinforcement Learning can be used as a decision-making tool in your business.

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Wed 09 Jul 2025 – Wed 09 Jul 2025 EXPLAIN

Fundamentals of Cloud Computing

Aimed at Independent Users, this course will take you through the full lifecycle of “model to service”, starting off with an open-source language model and going through the steps to go from a model to a fully usable deployed cloud-hosted application

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Tue 29 Jul 2025 – Tue 29 Jul 2025 EXPLAIN

Fundamentals of Performance Analysis

Have you ported your applications to supercomputers and found they are not as fast as you expected? Do you want to know which sections of the application are limiting performance?

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