Richard Gilham
@rjjgilham.bsky.social
#HPC person at Bristol Centre for Supercomputing, University of Bristol. Rambling experience in scientific computing, optimisation, software management and leadership. Mountain Rescue team member. Views, opinions etc my own.
Little Isambard getting ready for a trip. Stay tuned for a mixture of proper work updates and some fun ones.
August 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Little Isambard getting ready for a trip. Stay tuned for a mixture of proper work updates and some fun ones.
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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...
AIRR advanced supercomputers for the UK
www.gov.uk
July 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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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Last week, #GW4 joined a special event at the National Composites Centre to celebrate the launch of Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer. 💻
Developed by @bristoluni.bsky.social w/ #HPE and #NVIDIA, this extraordinary facility will supercharge the UK’s research capabilities. 🚀🔬
Developed by @bristoluni.bsky.social w/ #HPE and #NVIDIA, this extraordinary facility will supercharge the UK’s research capabilities. 🚀🔬
July 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Last week, #GW4 joined a special event at the National Composites Centre to celebrate the launch of Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer. 💻
Developed by @bristoluni.bsky.social w/ #HPE and #NVIDIA, this extraordinary facility will supercharge the UK’s research capabilities. 🚀🔬
Developed by @bristoluni.bsky.social w/ #HPE and #NVIDIA, this extraordinary facility will supercharge the UK’s research capabilities. 🚀🔬
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🖥️ UK’s Isambard-AI supercomputer goes live.
Supports AI, NHS, and climate work.
🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67296381
#Supercomputing #AI #UK
Supports AI, NHS, and climate work.
🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67296381
#Supercomputing #AI #UK
Bristol University to receive £225m to create UK's new supercomputer
Isambard AI will be 10 times more powerful than the UK's current fastest supercomputer.
bbc.co.uk
July 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🖥️ UK’s Isambard-AI supercomputer goes live.
Supports AI, NHS, and climate work.
🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67296381
#Supercomputing #AI #UK
Supports AI, NHS, and climate work.
🔗 bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-67296381
#Supercomputing #AI #UK
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🚀 The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is now live in Bristol. Officially launched at the NCC today by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle, it can complete 80 years of human work in one second. A new era for research begins🔬
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUdXk
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUdXk
July 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
🚀 The UK’s most powerful AI supercomputer, Isambard-AI, is now live in Bristol. Officially launched at the NCC today by Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology Peter Kyle, it can complete 80 years of human work in one second. A new era for research begins🔬
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUdXk
➡️ brnw.ch/21wUdXk
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Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security
ow.ly/ncsf50WrnMI #NVIDIA #HPC #HPCwire
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 […]
ow.ly
July 17, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security
ow.ly/ncsf50WrnMI #NVIDIA #HPC #HPCwire
ow.ly/ncsf50WrnMI #NVIDIA #HPC #HPCwire
Great to see the news about Isambard-AI starting to spread
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/u...
One should only appear on @theregister.com three times in one's career. Once in On Call, once in Who, me? and once in BOFH. Thankfully, I don't think this counts!
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/u...
One should only appear on @theregister.com three times in one's career. Once in On Call, once in Who, me? and once in BOFH. Thankfully, I don't think this counts!
UK's Isambard-AI super powers up as government goes AI crazy
: Brace yourselves Britain, PM Keir Starmer's challenged his teams: 'show me how they can use AI'
www.theregister.com
June 10, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Great to see the news about Isambard-AI starting to spread
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/u...
One should only appear on @theregister.com three times in one's career. Once in On Call, once in Who, me? and once in BOFH. Thankfully, I don't think this counts!
www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/u...
One should only appear on @theregister.com three times in one's career. Once in On Call, once in Who, me? and once in BOFH. Thankfully, I don't think this counts!
June 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Really interesting being on a panel at #AIUK today discussing sustainability in #AI #supercompuing
Must have been important, I wore a jacket and everything
Must have been important, I wore a jacket and everything
March 18, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Really interesting being on a panel at #AIUK today discussing sustainability in #AI #supercompuing
Must have been important, I wore a jacket and everything
Must have been important, I wore a jacket and everything
Conference organisation is at fever pitch... Everyone keeps sending me reasonable and pertinent work messages, and all I want right now is to go out and grab a pasty.
(for those not resident in SW England, you may not understand the importance of pasties in the diet)
(for those not resident in SW England, you may not understand the importance of pasties in the diet)
March 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Conference organisation is at fever pitch... Everyone keeps sending me reasonable and pertinent work messages, and all I want right now is to go out and grab a pasty.
(for those not resident in SW England, you may not understand the importance of pasties in the diet)
(for those not resident in SW England, you may not understand the importance of pasties in the diet)
Last minute remote registration for an event I've been organising...
Isambard Day 2025 | 11th & 12th March
Two days of #AI & #HPC discussions with sessions on LLMs, AI in healthcare, physics simulations & more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isambard-d...
Please note, remote participation is viewing only.
Isambard Day 2025 | 11th & 12th March
Two days of #AI & #HPC discussions with sessions on LLMs, AI in healthcare, physics simulations & more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isambard-d...
Please note, remote participation is viewing only.
Isambard Day '25
Isambard Day 2025 (ID25), celebrating the remarkable achievements of the Isambard supercomputers and exploring the opportunities ahead.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Last minute remote registration for an event I've been organising...
Isambard Day 2025 | 11th & 12th March
Two days of #AI & #HPC discussions with sessions on LLMs, AI in healthcare, physics simulations & more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isambard-d...
Please note, remote participation is viewing only.
Isambard Day 2025 | 11th & 12th March
Two days of #AI & #HPC discussions with sessions on LLMs, AI in healthcare, physics simulations & more.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isambard-d...
Please note, remote participation is viewing only.
ECMWF going operational with AI forecasts is a big deal IMO. Their next steps will be super interesting too!
Going operational with a weather model takes huge effort and verification even when you're not changing the fundamental modelling approach everyone's been using for 50-odd years.
Going operational with a weather model takes huge effort and verification even when you're not changing the fundamental modelling approach everyone's been using for 50-odd years.
We have taken our Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS) into operations today to run side by side with our physics-based weather forecasts. The #AIFS outperforms traditional models for many measures, at a fraction of energy use. ➡️ www.ecmwf.int/en/about/med...
#AI #MachineLearning
#AI #MachineLearning
February 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
ECMWF going operational with AI forecasts is a big deal IMO. Their next steps will be super interesting too!
Going operational with a weather model takes huge effort and verification even when you're not changing the fundamental modelling approach everyone's been using for 50-odd years.
Going operational with a weather model takes huge effort and verification even when you're not changing the fundamental modelling approach everyone's been using for 50-odd years.
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Insightful interview with the father of Isambard-AI, Simon McIntosh-Smith @simonmcs.bsky.social 👏🏻
#hpc #ai #aioap
@emmamrose.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social
#hpc #ai #aioap
@emmamrose.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social
Building Isambard-AI: 30 years and a final sprint – The Bristol Mix
the-bristol-mix.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Insightful interview with the father of Isambard-AI, Simon McIntosh-Smith @simonmcs.bsky.social 👏🏻
#hpc #ai #aioap
@emmamrose.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social
#hpc #ai #aioap
@emmamrose.bsky.social @rjjgilham.bsky.social
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A world changing supercomputer? Yes please 🙋♀️
#hpc #ai
@emmamrose.bsky.social
@simonmcs.bsky.social
@rjjgilham.bsky.social
#hpc #ai
@emmamrose.bsky.social
@simonmcs.bsky.social
@rjjgilham.bsky.social
AI supercomputer being used to develop vaccines for Alzheimer's
Waste energy from the supercomputer could one day heat nearby homes in north Bristol.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A world changing supercomputer? Yes please 🙋♀️
#hpc #ai
@emmamrose.bsky.social
@simonmcs.bsky.social
@rjjgilham.bsky.social
#hpc #ai
@emmamrose.bsky.social
@simonmcs.bsky.social
@rjjgilham.bsky.social
This week, I'm thinking a lot about User Experience for #HPC. How can I make users 'productive' and 'happy'?
Imagine I had a magic wand. What would you wish for?
Imagine I had a magic wand. What would you wish for?
January 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
This week, I'm thinking a lot about User Experience for #HPC. How can I make users 'productive' and 'happy'?
Imagine I had a magic wand. What would you wish for?
Imagine I had a magic wand. What would you wish for?
Want to use the Isambard-AI or Dawn #AI #supercomputer?
AIRR Expression of Interest to use UK large scale compute is finally out!
engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-resear...
The call is aiming broader than just universities so definitely worth a click.
AIRR Expression of Interest to use UK large scale compute is finally out!
engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-resear...
The call is aiming broader than just universities so definitely worth a click.
AIRR Expression of Interest to use UK large scale compute
- UK Research and Innovation
- Citizen Space
Find and participate in activities run by UK Research and Innovation
engagementhub.ukri.org
January 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Want to use the Isambard-AI or Dawn #AI #supercomputer?
AIRR Expression of Interest to use UK large scale compute is finally out!
engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-resear...
The call is aiming broader than just universities so definitely worth a click.
AIRR Expression of Interest to use UK large scale compute is finally out!
engagementhub.ukri.org/epsrc-resear...
The call is aiming broader than just universities so definitely worth a click.
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Under the U.K.’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” the government has set itself an ambitious goal of increasing the country’s data center capacity by as much as 20-fold by the end of the decade
siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/u...
#AI #HPC
siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/u...
#AI #HPC
U.K. PM Keir Starmer to announce new plans to transform the country into an 'AI superpower' - SiliconANGLE
U.K. PM Keir Starmer to announce new plans to transform the country into an 'AI superpower' - SiliconANGLE
siliconangle.com
January 13, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Under the U.K.’s “AI Opportunities Action Plan,” the government has set itself an ambitious goal of increasing the country’s data center capacity by as much as 20-fold by the end of the decade
siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/u...
#AI #HPC
siliconangle.com/2025/01/12/u...
#AI #HPC
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Starting this year with a blog post on Enhancing Security with @openstack.org Federated Cloud SSH Authentication. Discover how Keycloak can provide robust authentication/authorisation in federated cloud deployments. Perfect for sharing #HPC #AI workloads across #GPU resources.
tinyurl.com/3dt7y93s
tinyurl.com/3dt7y93s
Conch-quering Federated Cloud SSH!
How Isambard's certificate authority, Conch, & SSH connection manager, Clifton, can bridge the gap between external researchers and Cloud HPCs.
www.stackhpc.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Starting this year with a blog post on Enhancing Security with @openstack.org Federated Cloud SSH Authentication. Discover how Keycloak can provide robust authentication/authorisation in federated cloud deployments. Perfect for sharing #HPC #AI workloads across #GPU resources.
tinyurl.com/3dt7y93s
tinyurl.com/3dt7y93s
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Interested in a fully-funded PhD developing the next generation of flood forecasting models for the Exascale computing era? Have a look at this project as part of the ExaGeo PhD programme - supervised by EPCC with colleagues from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the BGS
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
December 21, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Interested in a fully-funded PhD developing the next generation of flood forecasting models for the Exascale computing era? Have a look at this project as part of the ExaGeo PhD programme - supervised by EPCC with colleagues from Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the BGS
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
www.exageo.org/phd-student-...
2024 retro thingie... When not being an #HPC person, I'm a #MountainRescue #volunteer where I've nearly completed my first decade as a member and first year as Rope Rescue Officer. It's a hobby-job like nothing else- buy me a beer and I'll tell you all about it!
www.linkedin.com/posts/exmoor...
www.linkedin.com/posts/exmoor...
Exmoor Search and Rescue Team on LinkedIn: #exmoorsearchandrescue #mountainrescue #volunteers #donatetoday…
Rope section training.
Imagine ...
you went for a run at Castle Neroche as it was getting dark. You trip on the slippy tree roots and tumble down the steep…
www.linkedin.com
December 20, 2024 at 4:23 PM
2024 retro thingie... When not being an #HPC person, I'm a #MountainRescue #volunteer where I've nearly completed my first decade as a member and first year as Rope Rescue Officer. It's a hobby-job like nothing else- buy me a beer and I'll tell you all about it!
www.linkedin.com/posts/exmoor...
www.linkedin.com/posts/exmoor...
Computer getting into the Christmas spirit too. Just one meeting left for the year. N e a r l y t h e r e! 🧑🎄
December 19, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Computer getting into the Christmas spirit too. Just one meeting left for the year. N e a r l y t h e r e! 🧑🎄
imgs.xkcd.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Utterly exhausted on a delayed train home after #CIUK heading in to the depths of the South West. Someone sitting opposite with a conference bag. It's like a secret society all melting away until next year.
December 6, 2024 at 8:51 PM
Utterly exhausted on a delayed train home after #CIUK heading in to the depths of the South West. Someone sitting opposite with a conference bag. It's like a secret society all melting away until next year.
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#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
December 6, 2024 at 4:54 PM