Supercomputers deliver £500,000 savings for BAE Systems
New supercomputers recently installed at BAE Systems Warton site – each with 100 times the capacity of a top-of-the range PC – are set to save half a million pounds per year in running costs alone.
The company is using its new systems to significantly uprate its engineering simulation capabilities, and to reduce physical testing of aerospace prototypes.
Tim Amphlett, IT support manager at BAE Systems, says: “Our previous computers were around 10 years old and had limited capability. The new facility has over 10 times the capacity of its forerunner and is used for complex calculations in structural, aerodynamic and electromagnetic engineering.”
Tim added, “What’s even more important, is that we have more than enough capacity to be going on with, and the machines are upgradeable. As demand grows, the capacity of the computers can be increased to cope.”
