A cutting-edge supercomputer, GW4 Isambard 3, has officially launched, promising to drive innovative scientific research in areas such as clean energy, wind farms, and fusion reactors. This £10 million system, developed by a collaboration of four universities - Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, and Exeter - and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), NVIDIA, and Arm, boasts over 55,000 cores and more than six times the computational performance and energy efficiency of its predecessor, Isambard 2. The system is hosted at the National Composites Centre on the Bristol and Bath Science Park and features a high-performance storage system from HPE. Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, said the new supercomputer will take research to the next level, supporting global collaborations in areas like artificial intelligence and scientific simulations. Other key individuals involved include Professor Evelyn Welch, Vice-Chancellor and President at the University of Bristol, Dr Joanna Jenkinson, GW4 Alliance Director, Matt Harris, SVP & Managing Director for UK, Ireland, Middle East and Africa at HPE, John Josephakis, Global VP of Sales and Business Development for HPC and Supercomputing at NVIDIA, and David Lecomber, Director of HPC, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm.
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