- 1988: IBM 3090-200E with 2 processors and 1 vector facility
- IBM offered a 3-year deal:
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Upgrade machine to 6 processors and 6 vector facilities
- Upgrade to maximum memory
- RAL provide numerically intensive prestigious peer-reviewed projects with:
- Able to take advantage of the vector, parallel and large memory features of the 3090
- Represent a wide variety of scientific and engineering applications
- 15 Projects chosen
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Host a seminar at the end on achievements:
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CFD in 3D: air flow in hypersonic aircraft design
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Drug Design: designing bioreductive anti-cancer drugs
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Structural Integrity: how tough materials fail in engineering applications:aircraft, engines, gears, oil-rigs, pipelines
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Artificial Comets: model to explain the AMPTE artificial comet: 998 Mbytes, 175 reduced to 75 hours on the 3090
