Folks are doing some fancy stuff in Britain, what with this and Bezos wanting to build his fusion reactor down-river from Oxford.
NVIDIA would definitely make a good partner for anyone building a supercomputer, three of the top five and six of the top ten fastest 'puters in the world use NVDA's GPU's as accelerators, including NVIDIA's own supercomputer, Selene, which ranks as the fifth fastest.
So whether of not Mr. Huang is able to sway the British regulators on his proposed deal with ARM, this project will be world class.
We'll have more on NVIDIA and supercomputers later this week. For now, from Reuters, June 17:
Nvidia Corp's chief executive on Thursday said the company will spend at least $100 million on a supercomputer in the United Kingdom.
Speaking at The Six Five Summit, CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia will spend "$100 million, just as a starting point" on the Cambridge-1 supercomputer.
Nvidia had said in October it planned to spend 40 million pounds, or about $55.6 million, on the project.
Nvidia is in the process of acquiring U.K.-based chip technology firm Arm Ltd for $40 billion from Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. The deal faces pushback from Nvidia's rivals and is under regulatory scrutiny in the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe.
To show its commitment to Arm's U.K. operations, Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia said in October it was building the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer in Cambridge, where Arm is headquartered, to focus on solving healthcare and artificial intelligence problems....
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Interestingly, the current world's fastest supercomputer, Japan's Supercomputer Fugaku, blew past the U.S.'s Summit and Sierra computers using ARM architecture.
