Project leader Professor Jason Reese of the University's Department of Mechanical Engineering, stated: "Our new HPC - and a newly appointed HPC Officer to support its users - will be central to a wide range of pioneering research projects, including the simulation of fluids at the nanoscale, the prediction of welding distortion, and the aerodynamics of future space re-entry vehicles. This state-of-the-art facility will help us perform engineering and scientific modelling to a level of detail that would not be possible using physical experiments. The investment reflects Strathclyde's vision to be a leading international technological university."

With 1,088 computing elements (cores) writing to a 100TB high performance disk storage area across a state-of-the art Quad Data Rate Infiniband network, the HPC is designed for a peak performance of almost 13 TeraFlops - or thirteen thousand billion mathematical operations per second.