HECToR will help Britain's scientists to carry out simulations that require massive amounts of computing power.
The government is giving £52m to a project to build one of the world's fastest supercomputers in the UK.
Lord Sainsbury, science minister, announced last Friday that the government was providing financial backing to the HECToR (High-End Computing Terascale Resource) project.
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