🇯🇵 🇬🇧 One of the world's most influential supercomputing leaders, Satoshi Matsuoka, and the team from RIKEN visited Bristol. RIKEN built Fugaku, the most powerful supercomputer globally at launch in June 2020. 🗞️: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... @riken-sciverse.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

📺 Global television network, CGTN Europe, commissioned a special 30 minute episode on Isambard-AI last year, which aired on their Razor Science Show last month. ▶️ Razor Science Show: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWm...

Inside One of the World's Most Powerful AI Supercomputers And How It's Saving Lives

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Introducing Node to Node, a video podcast series by BriCS, unearthing the projects, policies and ideas shaping AI in the UK. 🎧 ▶️ Listen and watch: lnkd.in/eNVJnad9 @simonmcs.bsky.social

One year ago, Isambard-AI powered up ⚡ 🎩 Since then, the UK's sovereign AI supercomputer has powered around 1,000 research projects for more than 4,000 users. Read: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... Watch: youtu.be/Day4mE4uQBM @bristoluni.bsky.social

One year of Isambard-AI: July 2025-2026

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🎬 CASE STUDY: Cancer pathology assisted by AI This team have used Isambard-AI to create a computational pathology system that aligns AI and clinical reasoning. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAd... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

🎬 CASE STUDY: Detecting Alzheimer's with a simple blood test 🧠 Dementia is the number one killer of people in the UK and it’s extremely hard to fight with medical interventions. But that’s all about to change. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbO...

🎬 CASE STUDY: AI Security Institute This team, as part of the UK Government, is looking at "data poisoning" - attacks where malicious data is hidden within the trillions of words and numbers used to train AI. ▶️ youtu.be/of2lgW6aBfY @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

CASE STUDY: Using AI to spot the earliest signs of disease in farm animals before they even show physical symptoms, allowing early intervention and cures. ▶️ youtu.be/p0WzurIUSuc

Find us at CUG2026 next week: ssl.linklings.net/conferences/... 🗓️Sunday 26th - Programming Environment, Applications and Documentation (PEAD) 🗓️Monday 27th - Tutorials 1C and 1D 🗓️Thursday 28th - Technical sessions 1B and 6C

🎬 CASE STUDY: A UK built LLM, specifically considering UK minority Celtic languages. How do we ensure LLMs are aligned with UK interests and that they serve the needs of everyone? Meet Prof. Pontus Stenetorp and his team, behind UK-LLM www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlr1...

OpenCHAMI Developer Summit @ UCL 2026 🗓️ May 6-8, 2026 📍 University College London, London, UK Hosted by UCL, University of Bristol, University of Cambridge 👉 openchami.org/events/2026/...

Isambard Summit 2026 was made a huge success by the speakers, sponsors, and showcased projects. Thank you to everyone who contributed and attended. See you next year 🎩

You can now apply for up to a million GPU hours on Isambard-AI thanks to a new access route from DSIT and UKRI. Apply now! #AI #HPC www.linkedin.com/posts/brics-...

AIRR compute opportunity: AI for Science | Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS)

Dreaming of more time on Isambard-AI? Eligible projects can now apply for between 250,000 and 1,000,000 GPU hours. This research opportunity seeks projects aligned with AI for Science priority areas...

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🚀 ISAMBARD-AI, the UK’s new AI Research Resource, is now live! Two access opportunities are open for researchers to tap into world-class supercomputing. Apply now: www.gov.uk/government/p... #AI #Supercomputing #AIRR #UKResearch

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After the official switch on of Isambard-AI last week, you can now apply for time on this amazing resource! Open for researchers and companies in the UK, find out how to apply to the UK's newest and fastest supercomputer at the following link: www.gov.uk/government/p...

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Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security ow.ly/ncsf50WrnMI #NVIDIA #HPC #HPCwire

Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security

July 17, 2025 — Faster, more accurate cancer diagnoses and new clean-energy innovations are some of the key breakthroughs which are now closer to reality as the UK’s most powerful […]

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Here's my notes from ISC'25 in Hamburg: blog.glennklockwood.com/2025/06/isc2... #HPC

ISC'25 recap

I had the pleasure of attending the 40th annual ISC High Performance conference this month in Hamburg, Germany. It was a delightful way to t...

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Excited to be invited to 10 Downing Street, the official residence of the UK Prime Minister, for AI discussions with a visiting trade delegation from India. Proud to represent @bristoluni.bsky.social, the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) and Isambard-AI at this important meeting! #AI

What a day for Isambard-AI, central to the Government's AI Opportunities Action Plan 💪🏻 www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ja... #ai #hpc @emmamrose.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

University of Bristol supercomputer will help UK become ‘technological superpower’

The UK’s fastest supercomputer Isambard-AI will play a major role in advancing the nation’s AI capabilities.

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New #HPC Job! ✨️ Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in High Performance Computing Location: Bristol, UK Employer: University of Bristol Remote: Hybrid

What a year for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing. Isambard-3 launched ☑️ Isambard-AI phase 1 launched ☑️ Isambard-AI phase 2 well underway ☑️ Here's to the next!💥 @simonmcs.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social @emmamrose.bsky.social #hpc #ai shorturl.at/UD3Xk

University of Bristol on LinkedIn: #supercomputer

The UK's fastest supercomputer has taken a leap towards completion! The first snow flurry of the year heralded the arrival of a new data centre which will…

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A collection of photos unlike anything you might have seen before - from "The Art of Failure Analysis" contest Searching for defects in their chips, these engineers found something inspiring spectrum.ieee.org/the-art-of-f... #HPC via @ieeespectrum.bsky.social

The Art of Failure Analysis 2024

Searching for defects in their chips, these engineers found something inspiring

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Last day to apply for this position! Come and join the HPC Group in Bristol.

Tom Deakin@tomdeakin.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣🌦️ Come and join me and the team in porting Weather/Climate codes to GPUs. We're hiring a post-doc Research Associate/Senior Research Associate position to help get ocean models running on GPUs in a portable way with OpenMP and the PSyclone DSL.

#CIUK has finished for this year. A great event, it felt like most of the UK community was there, with over 900 attendees! Exciting to exhibit Isambard-AI, Isambard 3 and the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS). Huge thanks to all our team for their hard work pulling this together #HPC #AI

Great to be here are a bustling and bigger than ever #CIUK in Manchester, catching up on all things UK HPC. We’re hiring RA and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions, so if you’re interested come and find me to chat.

GW4 Isambard 3 #Supercomputer is officially online🎉🧠 ! Part of a collaboration between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, alongside partners HPE, NVIDIA and Arm, Isambard 3 will push the boundaries of science. 🔗 https://buff.ly/4g7HtMK

Pat Gelsinger is out as Intel CEO, and the debate begins anew about breaking Intel up. Consider TSMC and the US government when calculating your odds. www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/02/w...

With Gelsinger Gone, Who Benefits From An Intel Break Up?

We did not think that today we would be writing about Pat Gelsinger "retiring" from the company that he loves best and most. Intel’s prodigal and now

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Bristol looking lovely in the winter sun today. Walking from the University to meet the Brunel Archive to explore collaboration around Isambard-AI. #HPC BriCS

Just posted on LinkedIn - see this video of how we installed the Isambard-AI modular datacenter in Bristol last week, during a snowstorm! This 5MW facility will soon be home to a new HPE EX4000 supercomputer, including 5,280 NVIDIA GH200 GPUs www.linkedin.com/posts/simonm...

Simon McIntosh-Smith on LinkedIn: The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have…

The Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team and our partners have been doing an amazing job, building the Isambard-AI site in record time. Last week the…

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Great job for Team UKSCC, winning this years #SC24 IndySCC on debut! Some of these started out in the #CIUK Student Cluster Challenge competition, so it's great that we can show that our best in the UK can go head to head on the world stage and compete.

Carlos Bederian@zzzoom.bsky.social · 2y ago

Congratulations to Team UKSCC on winning this year's #SC24 IndySCC!