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The University of Bristol and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have received a £225 million grant from the UK government to develop Isambard-AI, the country's fastest supercomputer. Isambard-AI will be 10 times more powerful than the current fastest supercomputer in the UK and will be used for AI-driven research. The supercomputer will be based on the HPE Cray EX system and will feature NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips and HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect. It is expected to be operational in the summer of 2024 and will support various organizations in harnessing the power of AI for applications such as drug discovery and climate research. [Extracted from the article]

Sunak Is Gearing Up to Spend £800 Million on UK Supercomputer Treasury Talks DSIT officials had hoped that the new supercomputer could be announced in time for next week's set-piece, but discussions between the department and the Treasury are ongoing, the people said. (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is weighing proposals to plow £800 million ($946 million) into a new supercomputer as the government seeks to make the UK a global leader in science and technology. [Extracted from the article]

The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab has unveiled the Dawn Phase 1 supercomputer, the fastest AI supercomputer in the UK. Powered by Intel GPUs and CPUs on liquid-cooled Dell servers, Dawn combines AI and high-performance computing technology to support complex research in various fields, including bioscience, fusion energy, and climate modeling. The supercomputer was developed through a partnership between the University of Cambridge, UK Atomic Energy Authority, UK Research and Innovation, Dell Technologies, and Intel. Dawn Phase 2, with 10 times higher AI compute performance, is expected to be delivered in 2024. [Extracted from the article]

The UK government has announced it will build a £900 million (US$1.1 billion) supercomputer, to drive the country's AI research and innovation capabilities. Bristol University will also host the new AI Research Resource (AIRR or Isambard-AI), a national facility to help support AI research and promote the safe use of the technology. [Extracted from the article]

Reports the robbery of the supercomputer Cosmology Machine from the Institute for Computational Cosmology in Great Britain. Tendency to market the hardware to terrorist organizations; Concern over the use of the computer for weapon control; Advantages of the supercomputer.

Comments on political and social issues of interest in Britain. The need of the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) for a supercomputer if it is going to get involved in ocean forecasting; Comment of Alan Howarth, the science minister; NERC'S James Rennell Centre at the University of South Hampton; Future meeting in Tokyo of British scientists concerned with the microstructure of the oceans; More.

The company's DGX SuperPOD architecture was key to enabling the Cambridge-1 to be built. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Bloomberg) -- Nvidia Corp. has built a U.K. supercomputer for scientists and drug makers that will allow researchers to model diseases, discover new medicines and advance knowledge of the human genome. Read More: Nvidia Offers U.K. Covid Supercomputer While Waiting on Arm Deal The Cambridge-1 will be kept at a site run by Kao Data Campus just outside London and about 40 miles south of its namesake city. [Extracted from the article]

The article discusses how scientists use the high performance computing (HPC) to predict climate and weather accurately. It states that the Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research at the Swansea University in Wales has developed Blue Ice supercomputer to aid research into understanding the effect of environmental changes, like the rising sea levels and melting glaciers and ice sheets. It notes that the University of Bristol in England has opened its Blue Crystal, a HPC facility that allows the researchers to find out what happened between a time around 20,000 years ago when the Earth's northern hemisphere was blanketed with ice.

U.S. chipmaker Nvidia pledged on Monday that it would build a new $52 million supercomputer in the U.K. The supercomputer, which is called "Cambridge-1," is expected to come online by year's end. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. said it will spend 1.2 billion pounds ($1.6 billion) on developing the most powerful weather and climate supercomputer in the world. With Britain hosting the year-end climate summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to showcase the U.K.'s leadership in both studying the climate and reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. [Extracted from the article]

Great Britain seems to be paying the price for letting supercomputing investments lag so far behind other countries, like, the U.S., Japan, Germany and Canada. Today, the average Mexican academic has greater access to supercomputers than a British counterpart, according to a new report from the country's Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. According to reports provided by the magazine "Nature," the three British academic supercomputing centers are already at capacity. Upcoming environmental projects threaten to overwhelm systems of the Great Britain. One penalty of the situation is that an increasing number of British academics are turning to U.S. supercomputing centers where they must make results of their work available to all U.S. researchers.

Reports on controversies concerning Great Britain's buying of supercomputers. Report published by the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology; Long-term effect of buying supercomputers; Changes to the management of British three supercomputer research centers.

Reports on the twin Cray supercomputers at the Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre at Bracknell in Great Britain. Focus of the computer on research of climate change; Arithmetical calculations per second handled by the computers; Funding of the computers by the department of the Environment; Uses of the computers to scientists.

Announces the unveiling of the first supercomputer made without silicon chips by the Convex company. Processors of gallium arsenide (GaAs); Advantages of GaAs chips; Description of the C3800; Projected selling cost; Comment of Chris Windridge, managing director of Cray Research in Britain; More.

The article discusses the issue involving the Cray 1 supercomputer of the Department of Energy of the Great Britain. One measure of the United States in keeping various high technologies out of Soviet Union is to block the repurchasing of the Cray 1 supercomputer that can be used in military activities for the development of high-tech weaponry. Politicians from the Great Britain assert that the U.S. interferes with their country's sovereignty and academic freedom.

The U.K. will provide 1 million pounds ($1.3 million) to the World Health Organization as part of stepped up preparations for expected global humanitarian crises in 2019. AttributionSteve Geimann: editor primaryTony Halpin: editor secondaryLaura Benitez: by reporterSarah Husband: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on Cambridge is set to become home to the Great Britain's most powerful supercomputer the Cambridge-1 has based on the Nvidia DGX SuperPOD system, Cambridge-1 will deliver petaflops of artificial intelligence performance and petaflops of Linpack performance.

The article offers news briefs in the higher education sector in Great Britain. The new University of Liverpool's Centre for Research into Reading, Information and Linguistics Systems will study how reading can help people with serious health conditions like depression. The supercomputer at the University of Warwick will evaluate the natural properties of tiny mollusc shells. Leeds Metropolitan University included the teaching of Buddhist meditation as part of its psychology degree.

The article offers information on various projects related to high-performance computer (HPC) or supercomputers development in Great Britain. It discusses several programs, including Cambridge University's selection for a commodity cluster for the implementation of an academic supercomputer called Darwin HPC Cluster, and the University College London's counter-intuitive solution for high-throughput computing and Legion cluster development. In addition, the author believes that HPC services are giving more attention to the user's needs due to the increasing demand for supercomputers. INSET: Remote assistance.

The article offers author's insight on the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) for the high-performance computing (HPC) community in Great Britain. The author states that the exhibition in ISC attracts people who are searching for new research collaborations and strategic business partnerships. She mentions that the ISC is also a networking event due to its familiar and friendly environment.

The article looks at the move of several universities in Great Britain to launch state-of-the-art facilities for supercomputing despite the prospect of public funding cuts. Universities in Cardiff and Swansea invested 44 million pounds for the High Performance Computing Wales project. The University of Leicester claims that its new Alice supercomputer is 10 times more powerful than its predecessor. Meanwhile, Lancaster University invested 4 million pounds for its supercomputing facility.

The article reports that the British Met Office is preparing to migrate the supercomputer that will increase its ability to model global weather systems, with a new Power6-based system from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) set to come in autumn. The £33m IBM supercomputer will replace a five-year-old NEC SX-8. It will radically improve the Met Office's ability to create complex climate models. The new IBM system is capable of undertaking 125 trillion calculations per second.

The article reports that Great Britain Met Office is to upgrade its weather predictions with a £33m supercomputer from International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) that will be the second most powerful system in Britain. When finished in 2011, the computer will be 30 times more powerful than the current system-- equivalent to some 100,000 PCs or one petaflop.

The article focuses on the introduction of High End Computing Terascale Resources (HECToR), a national high-performance computing (HPC) service for the academic community of Great Britain. HECToR is an academic supercomputer used by the scientists of Walker Institute at the University of Reading. It is expected to be six times more powerful than the previous academic supercomputer and 25 times more powerful by 2009. It will be used in running some of the most detailed global climate models in the world. Early results on climate models reveals that high-resolution global models can stimulate regional and local climate more realistically.

The article reports on the addition of Cardiff University's 1000-processor supercomputer, a Windows Condor Pool, to the National Grid Service, Great Britain's first production level grid for e-Science program. It was stated that the university's decision would allow users and researchers to benefit from the supercomputer's high-speed processing. It was considered that the supercomputer is the first of its type in the grid that would allow users to run Windows-based programs. In addition, the Condor Pool will be managed by the university's newly-opened Advanced Research Computing Division.

The article offers news briefs related to the computer industry in Great Britain. Coors Brewers had deployed its web-based market analysis software to monitor its operation and sales performance. BAE Systems Inc. had saved £500,000 a year by using supercomputers. The country's companies had enhanced its information technology (IT) security and reduced critical vulnerabilities.

The article presents an update on British universities as of April 2007. The logistics institute at Hull University in England will appoint a third professor and three new lecturers if the growth in student numbers is sustained. Criminologist Martin Innes has been appointed by Cardiff University to head the Universities Police Science Institute. The $113 million High End Computing Terascale Resources (Hector) supercomputer will be installed at Edinburgh University in Scotland in October 2007.

The article offers news briefs related to information technology in Great Britain. The University of Edinburgh at Edinburgh, Scotland has launched Maxwell, a green supercomputer that uses Field Programmable Gate Arrays. According to security vendor McAfee Inc., only half of compliance professionals have confidence in the security measures being used by British firms to prevent data leaks. As per the report of Symantec Corp., cyber criminals are becoming increasingly well-organised and financed.

The article reports on the move of Met office to replace its supercomputer infrastructure to be able to provide more precise weather and climate predictions by 2009. According to the agency, it will replace its high-performance computer to enable to predict weather events in Great Britain, such as the Boscastle floods. Meanwhile, it is planning to partner with the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

The article presents news items related to the computer industry in Great Britain as of November 16, 2006. Qantas has signed an outsourcing deal with Indian suppliers covering application development and maintenance services. The HPCx National Academic Supercomputer was upgraded to allow it to carry out complex engineering and environmental simulations. Fashion designer Paul Smith has implemented managed security services to protect its corporate network from Web-based threats.

The article reports that the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory is buying a high-performance computer cluster to help investigate how global warming will affect Great Britain shoreline. Information generated by the system will be used by Great Britain's Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in planning coastal erosion defense and flooding preparations.

The article reports that Great Britain's Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) is investing 52m pound in a high-end computing environment for use by scientists. The High-End Computing Terascale Resource (Hector) is being run by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) based on what will be Europe's fastest supercomputer. Hector is expected to have an initial peak performance in the range of 50 to 100 teraflops and processing power comparable to the world's 10 most powerful computers. Potential uses for Hector include Met Office simulations on climate change, and experiments in earth sciences, particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics, chemistry and nano science.

Focuses on the TeraGyroid experiment, the first interactive scientific experiment of supercomputers jointly funded by Great Britain and the U.S. Computing facilities used during the experiment; Scope of the experiment; Consortiums involved in providing the Computer Services for Academic Research.

Reports on the ranking of the High Performance Computing Facility (CCHPCF) in Great Britain as one of the world's top computers, following the installation of SunFire Galaxy-class F15K supercomputer. Amount of the grant offered by the Government's Science Research Investment Fund to acquire the machine; Applications for the CCHPCF in research.

Presents updates on research findings in Great Britain. Complexity of supercomputer simulations of star formation; Varieties of molecules in the human body; Properties and functions of protein.