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Will Isambard 4 Be The UK’s First True Exascale Machine?

November 14, 2023 Timothy Prickett Morgan 7

UPDATED  Here is a story you don’t hear very often: A supercomputing center was just given a blank check up to the peak power consumption of its facility to build a world-class AI/HPC supercomputer instead of a sidecar partition with some GPUs to play around with and wish its researchers had a lot more capacity. …

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