Earlham Institute plans supercomputer switch to Iceland to slash energy costs 70 per cent

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Research institute plans to harness Iceland's abundant supply of geothermal and hydroelectric power to cut carbon footprint and energy costs of its data centres

The Earlham Institute (formerly The Genome Analysis Centre) operates two high performance computing (HPC) data centres on its campus in Norwich, which it uses to conduct biotechnology research including assembling...

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