The head of the £800mn supercomputer project cancelled by the Labour government has warned the UK risks stifling “science and innovation” by not investing in the advanced technology.
Mark Parsons, supercomputing professor at Edinburgh university whose exascale venture had its funding scrapped over the summer, said it would be a “disaster” if the UK did not restart efforts to build next-generation capabilities.
“We can’t be a country the scale of Britain without a supercomputer,” he told the Financial Times. “It would block the advancement of UK science and innovation.”
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