Pro-vice chancellor Kelvin Everest said it would widen the reputation, profile and strength of the university.
"No one has done anything like this before, " says Macquarie University pro-vice chancellor Professor Tony Adams.
"Academics have always refreshed their expertise, " said Professor Ian Lesley, a pro vice-chancellor at Cambridge University.
Trevor Davies, UEA's pro-vice chancellor for research, said the potential for damaging relations was still a concern.
Paul Inman, pro vice-chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, said Swindon was "one of those areas that desperately deserves success".
The supercomputer is part of The Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research, named in recognition of a former pro-vice chancellor and his contribution to both Swansea University and the field of environmental science.
Professor Adam Tickell, pro-vice-chancellor for research and knowledge transfer at the University of Birmingham said that universities were hugely supportive of the move toward the new model of scientific publishing.
Stung by criticism that the government lacked a strategy for boosting the economy, the British chancellor described his budget as pro-growth and made a further reduction to corporation tax.
Moreover, his current actions will not only lead to losing status in the United States but also in the developed world, particularly Europe which is siding more and more with Washington, as is demonstrated in the new pro-American foreign policies of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, and German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.
First Minister Carwyn Jones has called on the chancellor to give Wales tax-raising powers to help defeat the pro-independence lobby in Scotland.
This is the first visit to Serbia by a German chancellor in several years and is intended to encourage Serbia's government to maintain its pro-EU path, our correspondent says.
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