The Cambridge-1 switch-on: UK’s most powerful supercomputer goes live
The UK's most powerful supercomputer has gone live, with Nvidia talking up its potential to transform artificial intelligence-based healthcare research around the world
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Published: 07 Jul 2021 0:01
Cambridge-1, the Nvidia-backed supercomputer, is now up and running, processing pharmaceutical and healthcare-related data and workloads to accelerate the pace of the UK’s genome sequencing, drug discovery and disease research.
Based on the Nvidia DGX SuperPod system, Cambridge-1 is reportedly the UK’s most powerful supercomputer, with the capacity to deliver 400 petaflops of artificial intelligence (AI) performance and 8 petaflops of Linpack performance.