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UK Government invests £225m to create UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer (feddit.de)

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Original link: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/press-release/2023/11/uk-government-invests-225m-to-create-uks-most-powerful-ai-supercomputer-with-university-of-bristol-and-hewlett-packard-enterprise.html

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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Looking at the article, AI appears to be more of a buzzword user here. It moreso appears to be a generic supercomputer that happens to be usable for AI but primarily is intended for complicated calculations.

Notably all the ways they WANT to use it is simulations. Not AI.

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, AI is included for buzzword compliance, but this system would be no slouch either.

When in production, Isambard-AI will achieve well over 200 PetaFLOP/s using the Top500’s Linpack benchmark, while also achieving over 21 ExaFLOP/s of AI performance to accelerate AI training for large-scale AI, such as large language models.

Comparing that to the current Top500 list of supercomputers, this would be 5th fastest in the world. I wish we could see more investment like this.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah no doubt. This thing would be intensely useful. Just think of all the applications for engineering, and that's just the tip of the iceberg