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UK Government invests £225m to create UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer

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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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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.
- 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.
  
  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
They'll finally be able to simulate what happens if you kill all the poor!
That will buy a couple of A100s at current prices.
Tory back pockets are going to become a lot thicker.
Hp, Cray and Nvidia. Marvel at that UK technology

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