Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has launched the most powerful Shared Memory SUPERCOMPUTER in Europe.
Hawking anticipates that the COSMOS supercomputer manufactured by Silicon Graphics,Inc (SGI) and the first system of its kind,will open up new windows on the University release said.
During the launch which is part of the Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop at the Centre for Mathmatical Sciences at the University of Cambridge,Hawking said "We have made spectacular advances in Cosmology and particle Physics recently".
"Cosmology is now a Precision Science,so we need machines such as COSMOS to reach out and touch the Real Universe,to investigate whether our Mathematical models are correct.,"
The COSMOS supercomputer is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council DiRAC High Performance Computing facility,a national service for the UK cosmologists,astronomers and particle physicists,as well as non academic users.The Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop,supported by Intel,has drawn together leaders in computational Cosmology with technological innovators.
However,this will not end our quest for a complete understanding,Hawking said "Even if we do find the ultimate theory,we will still need supercomputers to describe how something as big and complex as the Universe evolves,let alone why human behave the way they do"
The COSMOS consortium's current programme of research aims to advance the understanding of the origin and structure of the Universe,primarily through the scientific Exploitation of the Cosmic micro wave sky.
Jeremy Yates,the project Director for DiRAC,said:"The COSMOS super computer allows the UK cosmology and Extra-Solar planet research communities to understand the composition of the atmospheres of Extra-solar planets,"
Hawking anticipates that the COSMOS supercomputer manufactured by Silicon Graphics,Inc (SGI) and the first system of its kind,will open up new windows on the University release said.
During the launch which is part of the Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop at the Centre for Mathmatical Sciences at the University of Cambridge,Hawking said "We have made spectacular advances in Cosmology and particle Physics recently".
"Cosmology is now a Precision Science,so we need machines such as COSMOS to reach out and touch the Real Universe,to investigate whether our Mathematical models are correct.,"
The COSMOS supercomputer is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council DiRAC High Performance Computing facility,a national service for the UK cosmologists,astronomers and particle physicists,as well as non academic users.The Numerical Cosmology 2012 workshop,supported by Intel,has drawn together leaders in computational Cosmology with technological innovators.
However,this will not end our quest for a complete understanding,Hawking said "Even if we do find the ultimate theory,we will still need supercomputers to describe how something as big and complex as the Universe evolves,let alone why human behave the way they do"The COSMOS consortium's current programme of research aims to advance the understanding of the origin and structure of the Universe,primarily through the scientific Exploitation of the Cosmic micro wave sky.
Jeremy Yates,the project Director for DiRAC,said:"The COSMOS super computer allows the UK cosmology and Extra-Solar planet research communities to understand the composition of the atmospheres of Extra-solar planets,"
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