Science and Engineering South explained

Science and Engineering South
Formation:2013
Type:Consortium
Region Served:Southeast of England
Membership:Imperial College London
King's College London
University of Oxford
Queen Mary University of London
University of Southampton
University College London
University of Cambridge

Science and Engineering South (more commonly known as the SES, and previously SES-5[1]) is a consortium of 7 public research-intensive universities in the Southeast of England, who pool their resources and facilities[2] to further research in the fields of science and engineering.[3] Its members accounted for a third of all EPSRC spending in 2013, when the consortium was formed.[4] King's College London joined the consortium in 2016, becoming the sixth member institution.[5] By March 2017, Queen Mary University of London had joined the consortium. The University of Cambridge, one of the founder institutions, rejoined in 2019 after leaving in 2017.[6]

SES enables a network of high-performance computers available for research and scientific calculations across all its member universities, such as the 12,000 core IRIDIS Intel Westmere supercomputer cluster.[7]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: SES-5 article on UCL website. 9 May 2013 . 9 May 2013.
  2. Web site: Equipment sharing.
  3. Web site: SES-5 article on UCL website. 9 May 2013 . 9 May 2013.
  4. Web site: Research heavyweights deny ganging up. 9 May 2013 . 9 May 2013 .
  5. Web site: King's College London Joins SES. SES. 1 March 2016. 5 August 2016.
  6. Web site: About. SES. 13 March 2017.
  7. Web site: Science and Engineering South. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150512141309/http://www.cfi.ses.ac.uk/. 2015-05-12.