{"id":80553,"date":"2023-11-02T04:20:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/uk-invests-225m-to-create-one-of-worlds-most-powerful-ai-supercomputers\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T04:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-02T11:20:36","slug":"uk-invests-225m-to-create-one-of-worlds-most-powerful-ai-supercomputers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/uk-invests-225m-to-create-one-of-worlds-most-powerful-ai-supercomputers\/","title":{"rendered":"UK invests \u00a3225M to create one of world\u2019s most powerful AI supercomputers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK government is investing \u00a3225mn to build one of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers, as it looks to \u201clead the world\u201d in AI<\/a> systems.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The supercomputer<\/a> \u2014 named <\/span>Isambard-AI, after the famous 19th-century British engineer Isambard Brunel<\/span> \u2014 will be ten times faster than the country\u2019s quickest machine once it switches on in about six months\u2019 time. <\/span>It will be hosted at Bristol University in a \u201cself-cooled, self-contained data centre,\u201d developed by Hewlett-Packard Enterprises.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Equipped with over 5,000 NVIDIA<\/a> superchips, the supercomputer will run more than 200 quadrillion calculations per second. For comparison, <\/span>a human would have to make a decision every second for 6.3 billion years to match what this machine can calculate in one second.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The government\u2019s new Frontier AI Taskforce will have priority access to the new computer to support its work to mitigate the risks posed by the most advanced forms of AI, the government said. Isambard-AI will also offer computing capacity for researchers and industry in fields such as robotics, big data, climate research, and drug discovery. According to Simon McIntosh-Smith of the University of Bristol, the supercomputer \u201cwill be one of the most powerful AI systems for open science anywhere in the world\u201d once operational.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The funding injection, announced by innovation secretary <\/span>Michelle Donelan<\/span> at the <\/span>AI safety summit<\/span><\/a> yesterday, is part of a \u00a3300mn package to create a new national Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (AIRR). \u201cWe are making it clear that <\/span>Britain is grasping the opportunity to lead the world in adopting this technology safely so we can put it to work and lead healthier, easier and longer lives,\u201d said Donelan at the summit.<\/span><\/p>\n

The investment will also connect Isambard-AI to a newly announced Cambridge supercomputer called Dawn. This computer \u2014 delivered through a partnership with Dell and StackHPC \u2014 will be powered by over 1000 Intel chips that use water cooling to reduce power consumption. It is set to be running in the next two months and targets breakthroughs in fusion energy, healthcare and climate modelling.<\/span><\/p>\n

As it looks to assert its dominance in technology, the UK is planning an even more powerful computer<\/a> for 2025, to be housed at the University of Edinburgh. This \u2018exascale\u2019 machine (of which there is only one other currently in operation \u2014 Frontier in Tennessee<\/span>, USA) will build on the technology and experience from the planned Bristol supercomputer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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The UK government is investing \u00a3225mn to build one of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers, as it looks to \u201clead the world\u201d in AI systems.\u00a0 The supercomputer \u2014 named Isambard-AI, after the famous 19th-century British engineer Isambard Brunel \u2014 will be ten times faster than the country\u2019s quickest machine once it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":80554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"","ocean_second_sidebar":"","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"","ocean_custom_header_template":"","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"on","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2672,2668,2644],"tags":[2671,2667,2643],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80553"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techreviewers.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}