Il supercomputer più potente del Regno Unito viene online all’Università di Bristol

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/july/isambard-launch.html

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## Facts about Isambard-AI

– The 11st fastest supercomputer in the world and 9th for public supercomputing
– 100,000 times faster than a typical laptop
– Isambard-AI’s internal network speed is 200Gbps, or 200,000Mbps, compared to the average home broadband speed of about 100Mbps, making Isambard-AI’s internal network 2,000 times faster
– An average phone in the UK has 128 or 256 GBytes of storage, meaning Isambard-AI has about 100,000-200,000 times more storage
– The whole project took under two years from initial scoping to coming online
– Isambard-AI weighs about 150 tonnes, the same as 25 African elephants!
– Isambard-AI has more computing power than all other UK supercomputers combined
– Isambard AI’s modular construction approach resulted in a shorter on-site construction time. This led to a reduction in carbon emissions of circa 72% compared to traditional build methods

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##Technical specification

– Isambard-AI is built using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer, a next-generation platform architected to support unprecedented performance and scale.
– It consist of 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips which combine NVIDIA’s Arm-based Grace CPU with a Hopper-based GPU optimized for power efficiency and giant-scale AI.
– It features the latest HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect, and nearly 25 petabytes of storage using the Cray Clusterstor E1000 optimised for AI workflows.
– It utilises sophisticated direct liquid-cooling capabilities as part of the HPE Cray EX supercomputer design to improve energy efficiency and overall carbon footprint impact.
– The system is housed in a self-cooled, self-contained data center, using HPE Performance Optimized Data Center (POD) technology.

Imagine how many leagues in Football Manager that thing could run.

I worked with Russians who used ancient hardware with almost no processing speed that ran laps around everything NATO could muster

I also lived and worked out of Tallahassee Florida and had access to the faster supercomputer before you idiots decided to create visual desktop and layered your software and OS one on top of another. 

I didn’t work on green screens.  I am not Neo.  I didn’t enjoy the Matrix because it was a joke and the reality was much scarier than you realise. 

I worked on golden yellow prompts and terminals I built myself. 

When I give you an order. 

I expect it to be carried out. 

MI6

Get it the fuck done about the leaks.  

I will check back after I take a dump. 

Those big reel to reel wheels and inch square red buttons are must haves