£145 million boost "keeping us at the very leading edge of science"
£145 million boost "keeping us at the very leading edge of science"
Software development will benefit from a £145 million boost to improve Britain’s e-infrastructure, which was recently announced by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
Universities and Science Minister David Willetts said "The investment will also be of enormous benefit to our world-class research base. It will enable universities to carry out highly sophisticated research and archive more data, keeping us at the very leading edge of science."
Investing in software development is a fundamental part of ensuring software sustainability, because it is only through proper software-engineering practices that software can be made robust and flexible enough to survive in the long term.
The investment will benefit other areas of e-infrastructure, such as data storage, and people and skills. It builds on investment announced in the Budget for new supercomputing facilities and draws on work being done Professor Dominic Tildesley from Unilever to identify priority areas for future investment in the UK’s computing infrastructure.
Find out more in the press release from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.