"its 8,000 cores will enable it to run at around 74 trillion calculations (74 teraflops) a second"

Will it be powerful enough to run Windows Vista?

But can it run Quake?

It'll make a change from the flood0damaged SP2 they used to have in the basement.

I would have loved to have played with something like this when I was there.

Perhaps they could set up some kind of social enterprise to rent out some spare computing time for the local population, as part of a local Digital Britain initiative.

E.g.

- for local film makers and animators to do rendering and effects quicker than their desktop

- real-time analysis of local data mining to produce some useful mashup applications - any ideas?

- local chess and other game competitions versus the computer

The university and its students could always do more to work with the local community for mutual benefit.

Who knows how this could enhance the local digital media/technology economy?

what a waste putting it in Scumhampton!!!!

this system will be 0wned in little time purely to run rainbow crack tables and MD5 collisions