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

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• Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • thehatfox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Sheeple@lemmy.world ⁨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

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• HaunchesTV@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’ll finally be able to simulate what happens if you kill all the poor!

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• RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That will buy a couple of A100s at current prices.

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• Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Tory back pockets are going to become a lot thicker.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hp, Cray and Nvidia. Marvel at that UK technology

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