Science and Engineering South (more commonly known as the SES, and previously SES-5) is a consortium of 7

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research-intensive universities in the Southeast of England, who pool their resources and facilities to further research in the fields of

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and

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. Its members accounted for a third of all

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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,

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had joined the consortium. The

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, one of the founder institutions, rejoined in 2019 after leaving in 2017. 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.

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