Isambard AI will be 10 times more powerful than the UK's current fastest supercomputer.
Isambard-AI, named after the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, is set to be one of the most powerful supercomputers in EuropeA £225m investment has been awarded to Bristol University by the government to create the UK's most powerful supercomputer.A university spokesperson said the AI will be used for scientific discovery in fields such as robotics, big data, climate research and drug discovery.
The technology will host 5,000 state of the art NVIDIA superchips and be capable of 200 quadrillion calculations per second.UK science, innovation and technology secretary Michelle Donelan, spoke at the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park "This means giving Britain's leading researchers and scientific talent access to the tools they need to delve into how this complicated technology works.
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