Meet Hector, the new super pc

Defra has decided to spend £52 million on a new HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource). High end computing is already needed for 16 fields of scientific research: atomic, molecular and optical physics; computational chemistry; materials simulations; nanoscience; computational engineering; biomolecular sciences; health sciences and bioimaging; radiation biology; particle physics; environmental modelling; earth sciences; cosmology; astrophysics; solar system science; plasma physics; disaster simulation and emergency response.

The new HECToR will start work in 2007.