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UK crashes out of global top 50 supercomputer ranking


The U.K. has dropped outside the top 50 in global supercomputing ranking for the first time, shortly after government pulls funding.

The U.K. no longer has a supercomputer in the top 50, according to new data from the Top500 project, which ranks the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems globally. This downward trajectory comes shortly after the new Labour government shelved plans by the previous government to invest £800 million (around $1 billion) in a new “ exascale ” supercomputer at the University of Edinburgh. “We can’t be a country the scale of Britain without a supercomputer,” he said in an interview with the Financial Times.

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