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The U.K. no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50 , accord to unexampled information from theTop500 project , which rank the 500 most muscular nondistributed computer systems globally .
The country ’s current internal supercomputer system , Archer2 , is come near close - of - life in 2026 . According to the latest fig , it ’s also nowsitting in 62nd placeglobally , down from 49thin Juneand38th last November .
This down trajectory comes shortly after the new Labour governmentshelvedplans by the previous politics to invest £ 800 million ( around $ 1 billion ) in a raw “ exascale ” supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh .
ProfessorMark Parsons , who has worked at the university’sEPCC supercomputer centersince 1994 , said it would be a “ cataclysm ” if the U.K. did n’t reverse line on supercomputing investment . “ We ca n’t be a nation the scale of Britain without a supercomputer , ” he pronounce in aninterview with the Financial Times . “ It would block the advancement of U.K. scientific discipline and creation . ”
