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Science and Engineering South

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Science and Engineering South
Formation2013
TypeConsortium
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
Websitewww.ses.ac.uk Edit this at Wikidata

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]

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  1. ^ "SES-5 article on UCL website". 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  2. ^ "Equipment sharing".
  3. ^ "SES-5 article on UCL website". 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  4. ^ "Research heavyweights deny ganging up". 9 May 2013. Retrieved 9 May 2013.
  5. ^ "King's College London Joins SES". SES. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
  6. ^ "About". SES. Retrieved 13 March 2017.
  7. ^ "Science and Engineering South". Archived from the original on 12 May 2015.