The United Kingdom has announced that by 2025 it will build three new supercomputers, thus becoming a European powerhouse in this area. The machines will be built with funds worth 1.1 billion USD and will operate in three cities: Bristol, Cambridge and Edinburgh.
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"The boundaries of artificial intelligence models are becoming exponentially more powerful" - stated British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in a post on the X platform and added:
"Thanks to investment in supercomputers, British scientific talent will receive the tools needed to ensure the security of the most advanced artificial intelligence models".
A supercomputer working in Cambridge will be named Dawn. The system will consist of Dell PowerEdge XE9640 servers and will include Intel's fourth-generation Xeon processors and Intel Data Center GPU Max accelerators. Another supercomputer will be put into use at the University of Edinburgh. It will be the first exascale supercomputer operating in the UK, i.e., one that performs over a quintillion operations in one second. Its creators have not yet given this supercomputer a name.
The third supercomputer - Isambard-AI - will be put into operation next summer and its headquarters will be the National Composites Center at the University of Bristol. The system will contain Cray EX computing units from HPE and its heart will be over 5,000 GH200 Grace Hopper integrated circuits. These are chips that Nvidia introduced to the market at the beginning of this year. These are circuits that work so fast that the supercomputer will be able to perform over 200 quadrillion calculations in one second. The entire system will cost 273 million dollars. It is estimated that the Cray EX will be at least 10 times more powerful than the currently fastest supercomputer operating in the UK.
As reported by Reuters, two new supercomputers, one in Cambridge and one in Bristol, will provide scientists with access to resources more than thirty times larger than the currently largest public AI computational tools in the UK. The machines, which will be operational from next summer, will be used to analyze advanced artificial intelligence models for security testing, as well as for making breakthrough discoveries in drug discovery and clean energy - announced the British government.
In the coming years, funding for "artificial intelligence research resources" will be increased from one hundred to three hundred million pounds.
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