The businessman turned Apprentice star opened a new supercomputer this week – one that runs 10 billion times faster than his original Amstrad.

It needs to. The e-Science cluster at Queen Mary, University of London will help crunch the terabytes of data expected from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider by linking to other computers worldwide in the GridPP project. Its processing power will also be unleashed on biomedical and engineering problems.

Sugar’s company Viglen helped to build the cluster. Sugar commented in a press statement: “At Viglen we have been a leading provider of IT solutions to Higher Education for the last three decades and the development of this computer…will hopefully enable major scientific breakthroughs in years to come.”