Swansea runs a national supercomputer
- Supercomputing Wales
- Around two petaflops
- 30,000 processing cores
- A line back to Ferranti Atlas
How Swansea grew
The short version, in order. Pick a year.
A line from Atlas
David Aspinall left Manchester for a chair at Swansea, having worked on components of Ferranti’s Atlas — for a period the most powerful computer in the world.
Supercomputing Wales
Wales runs its national research computing on two hubs, and one of them is at Swansea University. Between them they hold over thirty thousand processing cores and deliver around two petaflops, used for everything from climate analysis and weather forecasting to particle physics.
There is an older thread too. In 1970 David Aspinall left Manchester for a chair at Swansea, having worked on components of Ferranti’s Atlas — for a period the most powerful computer in the world. The line from Manchester’s early machines runs through here.
For a city better known for copper smelting and coastline, that is a quietly serious amount of computing power.
What that means if you trade in Swansea
Swansea serves a long stretch of coast and valleys, and its businesses routinely cover far more ground than the city itself — Gower on one side, Neath and Llanelli on the others.
It is also bilingual territory, which raises the same question as Cardiff: whether your website should speak Welsh, and whether doing it badly is worse than not at all.
What Swansea businesses ask us for
Map your patch
Gower, Mumbles, Neath, Llanelli. Distances here are real and customers ask first.
Decide about Welsh
A bilingual heading and contact section signals belonging. Half-done translation does the opposite.
Show the work
A coastal, seasonal market buys on evidence. Photographs of finished jobs earn their place.
How well do you know Swansea?
Five quick questions. Get all five right and you win a 10% off discount code for your website. Every answer is somewhere on this page, so have a read if you get stuck.
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What does Swansea University host for Wales?
Common questions
The simplest one-page site starts at £15 a month, with the website build included and nothing to pay up front. Every plan and its price is published on the pricing page before you speak to anyone.
Sign-up takes about 3 minutes and the build questionnaire about 5. Most sites are then designed and built within 21 hours, and live within days of the brief being answered.
No setup fee and no hidden extras. Your monthly plan covers the website build and hosting. Done-for-you plans have a 12-month minimum term, then you can cancel any time from your dashboard.
Yes — you can upgrade at any time as your business grows, with no need to start over.