Emerging Technologies

Developing pioneering capabilities and digital solutions

We are looking to the future of computing in the UK, helping you to identify the areas where emerging digital technologies might offer the most competitive advantage. We want to enable effective investment decisions to make your business or organisation more resilient and unlock new opportunities for a diverse range of sectors.

 

We collaborate with industry and the research community to lower the risk of investment in emerging technologies, removing potential barriers to adoption while developing pioneering capabilities and digital solutions.

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Success Stories

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Drug discovery with quantum machine learning

Ahead of our quantum workshop at the International Supercomputing Conference, we are sharing research on virtual screening for drug discovery using quantum computing by Stefano Mensa, our Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies Team Leader and IBM Quantum.

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UK Government puts spotlight on emerging digital technologies 

The STFC Hartree Centre recently featured in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology’s National Quantum Strategy and Future of Compute Review, where our case studies demonstrate the potential of emerging digital technologies to enhance productivity and innovation in UK industry.  

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Is the UK ready for exascale computing?

What does the dawn of exascale computing mean for the UK, and how will this change UK industry? Find out what our Director Katherine Royse has to say on the matter.

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Quantum Meets HPC: Quantum computing is the future, but HPC is here to stay.

Stefano Mensa is a HPC Applications Specialist at the Hartree Centre and a quantum computing enthusiast. We caught up with him after the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2022 to talk about his perspective on the role of quantum computing and what this means for the world of high performance computing (HPC).

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A new collaboration for industry engagement with exascale computing

Introducing the new collaboration between the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) and Graphcore.

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Case Studies

Using blockchain for greater finance transparency

As part of the ERDF-funded LCR 4.0 programme, we helped peer-to-peer car finance company BLOCKTRACK to turn an idea into a demonstrator, enabling the adoption of a novel technology.

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