Daresbury to benefit from supercomputer investment

DARESBURY Science and Innovation Campus is set to benefit from a £145m plan to improve the Britain’s e-infrastructure.

Universities and science minister David Willetts visited the site yesterday to explain the benefits to campus tenants.

The government has said its announcement builds on details revealed in the budget to improve supercomputing facilities at Daresbury in a bid to put it at the forefront of software research and development.

It added that it hoped the investment would drive growth across a number of sectors which rely heavily on computing including advanced manufacturing, engineering and design.

“Significantly improving computing infrastructure is vital to driving growth and giving businesses the confidence to invest in the UK,” said Mr Willetts.

“It has the potential to significantly improve the design and manufacturing process, encouraging innovation across a whole range of sectors.

“The investment will also be of enormous benefit to our world-class research base. It will enable universities to carry out highly sophisticated research and archive more data, keeping us at the very leading edge of science.”