We've mentioned this one a couple times, it's a pretty big deal, links after the jump.
From TechRepublic, July 17:
NVIDIA’s CEO says the Isambard-AI supercomputer is a "vital national asset” that will help “scientists and developers unlock new frontiers in science.”
The UK’s most powerful supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is officially live at the University of Bristol. Clocking in at 100,000 times faster than a typical laptop, Isambard-AI has officially become the UK’s fastest supercomputer and is expected to rank 11th globally.
NVIDIA has supplied the facility with 5,448 GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips, enabling it to deliver 21 exaFLOPs of AI performance. An exaFLOP represents a quintillion (10¹⁸) floating‑point operations per second, whereas a typical smartphone achieves merely trillions (10¹²) of operations per second....
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With a slightly more emotional take here's The Sun (U.K.):
Previously:
November 2023 - Britain's Most Powerful Supercomputer And The Butterfly Effect Of Weather Modeling In the Cloud
Fortunately for the taxpayers a lot of the research and modeling can be done at the University of Bristol on their fancy, newly installed supercomputer...
Along with the Nvidia supercomputer at Cambridge it's all part of Mr. Huang's Sovereign AI push.
That 'puter was the fastest in Britain. From Nvidia:
And sovereign:NVIDIA Launches UK’s Most Powerful Supercomputer, for Research in AI and Healthcare
NVIDIA CEO Unveils ‘First Big Bet’ on Digital Biology Revolution with UK-Based Cambridge-1
March 5, 2024
Here's Nvidia's "Sovereign AI" Pitch (NVDA)
.... This is terrible. I now have Jensen Huang speaking in Dr. Martin Luther King's cadences as he repurposes the penultimate paragraph of "I have a Dream":
Let AI ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.I may have to go lie down.
Let AI ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let AI ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let AI ring.
This sovereign AI you speak of, I have heard of it.
I have heard wondrous tales of immense wealth,
Of amazing deeds performed as if by magic.
Yes I have heard of all of this...*
