Science and Engineering South (SES, previously SES-5) is a consortium of seven

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research-intensive universities in the Southeast of England, who pool their resources and facilities to further research in the fields of

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and

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Consortium

Its members accounted for a third of all

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spending in 2013, when the consortium was formed.

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joined the consortium in 2016, becoming the sixth member institution. By March 2017,

Queen Mary University of London Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and formerly Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University ...

had joined the consortium. The

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, one of the founder institutions, rejoined in 2019 after leaving in 2017. 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

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supercomputer cluster.

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