The government is to spend £225 million to build a 21 exaflop supercomputer powered by 5,448 Nvidia Grace Hopper SoCs.

Today the supercomputer, called Isambard-AI, would be one of the ten fastest supercomputers in the world. It is due to start working next year.

As AI promises advances in manufacturing, Isambard-AI will be based at the National CompositesNvidia hopper-h100-grace-hopper Centre (NCC) in the Bristol and Bath Science Park, one of the country’s seven manufacturing research centres.

The U.K.’s Frontier AI Taskforce, a research group leading a global effort on how frontier AI can be safely developed, will also be a major user of the system.

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which is building Isambard-AI, is collaborating with the University of Bristol on energy-efficiency plans that support net-zero carbon targets mandated by the British government