. . .the nature of computational research changed — FLS/MHS came joined the party. . .

FLS/MHS people kept breaking things!

Huge growth in IO-bound and high-memory work

• dominated by life and medical sciences (FLS and MHS);
• huge amounts of RAM and also fast storage required;
• serial and SMP.

DPSF

• Address thse issues;
• SCRE@M has previously lacked capability in this area.