Graphcore and Cirrascale announce Graphcloud Graphcore has announced the next step in what it describes as its commitment to help customers accelerate their innovation and harness the power of AI at scale. In co-operation with Cirrascale Cloud Services, Graphcore is making available its Mk2 IPU-POD scale-out cluster, offering a simple way to add compute capacity on-demand, without the need to own and operate a datacentre. When it comes to AI there are a unique set of computing challenges; model size is growing rapidly, and the bar for accuracy is constantly being raised. If customers are to take full advantage of the latest innovations, they need a tightly integrated hardware and software system built specifically for artificial intelligence.