A gem of a computer boosts research base 11:00am Wednesday 4th July 2012 in News A SUPER COMPUTER capable of helping combat swine flu and finding new planets was unveiled in Oxfordshire yesterday. The million-pound machine called Emerald will be used by researchers to crunch medical research data on Tamiflu, create software for the worlds most powerful radio telescope and see how human action is likely to affect the climate. Continue reading →