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A new Hitachi SR2201 supercomputer will be delivered to Cambridge 51¹ú²úÊÓƵ at the end of September. Each of its 96 nodes has 256 megabytes of memory and performs 300 million floating point operations per second, and a few years ago would have counted as a supercomputer in its own right. The machine will be used by the university's science and engineering departments. The cost to the university, in a keen but somewhat complex deal, will be about Pounds 2.5 million.