Formation 2013 Website www.ses.ac.uk | Region served Southeast of England | |
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Type Consortium of United Kingdom-based universities Membership Imperial College London
King's College London
University of Oxford
Queen Mary University of London
University of Southampton
University College London | ||
Science and Engineering South (more commonly known as the SES, and previously SES-5) is a consortium of 6 public research-intensive universities in the Southeast of England, who pool their resources and facilities to further research in the fields of science and engineering. Its members accounted for a third of all EPSRC spending in 2013, when the consortium was formed. King's College London joined the consortium in 2016, becoming the sixth member institution. By March 2017, Queen Mary University of London had joined the consortium and the University of Cambridge, one of the founder institutions, had left.
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.