A group of companies based in Scotland have clubbed together with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) to build a new type of supercomputer. Unlike the supercomputers which mostly use off-the-shelf microprocessors from companies such as Intel, this new design dispense with the fixed instruction sets of those processors. Instead, it works with software algorithms that are converted into hardware form: in a sense, the algorithms become the core instructions of this new computer. The Scottish supercomputer is made up of 64 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The value of most FPGA technologies is that the devices can be reconfigured to handle a new task as many times as required.