General/What is Viper
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Introduction
Viper is the University of Hull's Supercomputer and is located on site with its own dedicated team to administrate it and develop applications upon it.
A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of computing performance compared to a general-purpose computer. It achieves this level of performance by allowing the user to split a large job into smaller computation tasks which then run in parallel, or by running a single task with many different scenarios on the data across parallel processing units.
Like just about all other supercomputers it runs on Linux, which is similar to UNIX in many ways.