Steven Chapman
18th January 2017

GW4 joins industry partners to develop ‘first of its kind’ supercomputer

Posted in: Advancing Research Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), Research

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GW4 Alliance, together with Cray Inc. and the Met Office, has been awarded £3m by EPSRC to deliver a new Tier 2 high performance computing (HPC) service for UK-based scientists. This unique new service, named ‘Isambard’ after the renowned Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, will provide multiple advanced architectures within the same system in order to enable evaluation and comparison across a diverse range of hardware platforms. It will also provide a service to the community that will enable algorithm development and the porting of scientific codes. Isambard will include 10,000+ ARMv8 64-bit cores, in addition to a smattering of x86 CPUs, Intel Knights Landing Xeon Phi processors, and NVIDIA P100 GPUs.
For more information, please see the below press releases:

Bath's press release:
http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2017/01/17/gw4-joins-industry-partners-to-develop-%E2%80%98first-of-its-kind%E2%80%99-supercomputer/

GW4 press release:
http://gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-joins-industry-partners-to-develop-first-of-its-kind-supercomputer/

Posted in: Advancing Research Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), Research

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