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UK's most powerful supercomputer Isambard-AI comes online

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Technology Secretary Peter Kyle "flicked the switch" on the Isambard-AI machine as the government unveiled fresh artificial intelligence plans. The computer will become part of the UK's public AI computing capacity along with a machine in Cambridge called Dawn. The aim is to use the supercomputer for public projects such as bringing down NHS waiting lists and developing new tools to tackle climate change - although AI is notoriously energy-hungry. In addition, the government announced that Scotland and Wales will be in line for billions of investment in so-called AI Growth Zones. Part of the Isambard-AI computer was being used in January for a medical project to develop vaccines, but it has now been turned on entirely. As the name suggests, a supercomputer has more processing power and can complete more tasks more quickly than a less powerful computer. It processes data in the same binary format as regular computers but uses thousands more processing units to analyse more data at faste

UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 17 July 2025 Share Save Add as preferred on Google Tom Espiner Business reporter BBC One of the supercomputer's Nvidia GH200 Grace Hopper Superchips A supercomputer that is the most powerful in the UK has been made fully operational in Bristol. Technology Secretary Peter Kyle "flicked the switch" on the Isambard-AI machine as the government unveiled fresh artificial intelligence plans. The computer will become part of the UK's public AI computing capacity along with a machine in Cambridge called Dawn. The aim is to use the supercomputer for public

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