NVIDIA has announced the Isambard 3 project, a high-performance computing system that will be located in the Bristol and Bath Science Park in the UK. The complex will be used to solve complex problems in the field of AI, medicine, astrophysics, biotechnology, etc.
The initiative is being led by the University of Bristol as part of the GW4 Alliance research consortium. In addition, the Universities of Bath, Cardiff and Exeter are participating in the project. The supercomputer will be built by HPE.
Isambard 3 will be based on 384 NVIDIA Grace super processors with Arm Neoverse cores. It is alleged that the system will be six times more efficient and energy efficient than its predecessor, the Isambard 2 complex. In particular, the peak performance of the FP64 will be 2.7 Pflops with a power consumption of less than 270 kW. This will allow the complex to become one of the three most energy-efficient supercomputers in the world that do not use accelerators.
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Isambard 3 will help you create detailed models of extremely complex structures, objects and installations such as wind farms and fusion reactors. The new system will also continue the tasks that the Isambard 2 machine previously did: this is research at the molecular level related to Parkinson’s disease, the treatment of osteoporosis and the search for new drugs for COVID-19.
The Isambard 3 supercomputer is expected to enable the European Research Community to accelerate projects in a number of important areas. The commissioning of the system is scheduled for spring 2024.
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