"There's no university or pharmaceutical company that has the compute capability they need to deal with our data or anyone else's genomic data," he said.
That means it has the compute, storage, networking, management and platform as a service (PaaS).
Parallel computers have the computing power needed to simulate biologically accurate neuronal network models.
"When it was designed they didn't have the computing powers they have now".
Live video may seem straight out of the Jetsons, but I have the computing skills of Fred Flintstone.
In the 1990s, only governments had the computing muscle to break such keys.
Most recently, of course, we've had the computing fiasco at Nats, when the planes were stacked in the sky above Heathrow like a swarm of circling bees.
After turning to volunteer computing, they now have the computing power of up to 15,000 desktops working simultaneously.
But does the UK have the computing skills, the drive and staying power to create global tech companies?
