Simon McIntosh-Smith
@simonmcs.bsky.social
Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol, and Director of the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS)
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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
Two access opportunities are open for researchers to tap into world-class supercomputing.
Apply now: www.gov.uk/government/p...
#AI #Supercomputing #AIRR #UKResearch
AIRR advanced supercomputers for the UK
www.gov.uk
July 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚀 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
Two access opportunities are open for researchers to tap into world-class supercomputing.
Apply now: www.gov.uk/government/p...
#AI #Supercomputing #AIRR #UKResearch
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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Isambard-AI Now Fully Operational, Supporting Cancer Research and AI Security
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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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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
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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
January 30, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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
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What a day for Isambard-AI, central to the Government's AI Opportunities Action Plan 💪🏻
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...
#ai #hpc
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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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January 14, 2025 at 6:26 AM
What a day for Isambard-AI, central to the Government's AI Opportunities Action Plan 💪🏻
www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...
#ai #hpc
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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
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in High Performance Computing
Location: Bristol, UK
Employer: University of Bristol
Remote: Hybrid
January 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
New #HPC Job! ✨️
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in High Performance Computing
Location: Bristol, UK
Employer: University of Bristol
Remote: Hybrid
Research Associate / Senior Research Associate in High Performance Computing
Location: Bristol, UK
Employer: University of Bristol
Remote: Hybrid
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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!💥
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#hpc #ai
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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
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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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December 23, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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
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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
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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
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
spectrum.ieee.org
December 12, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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
Searching for defects in their chips, these engineers found something inspiring
spectrum.ieee.org/the-art-of-f...
#HPC via @ieeespectrum.bsky.social
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Last day to apply for this position! Come and join the HPC Group in Bristol.
📣🌦️ 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.
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.
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December 10, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Last day to apply for this position! Come and join the HPC Group in Bristol.
#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
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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.
We’re hiring RA and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions, so if you’re interested come and find me to chat.
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 AM
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.
We’re hiring RA and Lecturer/Senior Lecturer positions, so if you’re interested come and find me to chat.
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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
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
December 4, 2024 at 8:05 AM
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
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
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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...
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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December 2, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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...
www.nextplatform.com/2024/12/02/w...
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
December 2, 2024 at 1:28 PM
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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November 29, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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...
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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.
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.
Congratulations to Team UKSCC on winning this year's #SC24 IndySCC!
November 23, 2024 at 8:15 AM
Arm publishes reference architecture for PCs - Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in (The Register)
November 21, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Arm publishes reference architecture for PCs - Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in (The Register)
November 20, 2024 at 10:35 PM
November 20, 2024 at 5:18 PM
It's #SC24 week, so what better time for the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) to assemble the 5MW data centre for Isambard-AI. Of course we have typical UK winter weather to contend with, i.e. wind, rain, and today even snow. Fantastic support from HPE and Contour makes this possible #HPC
November 19, 2024 at 5:35 PM
This Isambard-AI modular data centre is on its way: www.linkedin.com/posts/contou...
Contour Advanced Systems BV on LinkedIn: #directliquidcooling #modulardatacenter #isambardai
Last week a new milestone was reached in an exiting project, as 4 container modules left for deployment at the campus of the University of Bristol. On site…
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November 18, 2024 at 11:11 PM
This Isambard-AI modular data centre is on its way: www.linkedin.com/posts/contou...
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Wei-Chen (Tom) Lin's up at the P3HPC workshop sharing a new metric measuring productivity of parallel programming models, tackling the "Third P" with objectivity.
#SC24
Photo: A Cockrean
#SC24
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November 18, 2024 at 3:37 PM
Wei-Chen (Tom) Lin's up at the P3HPC workshop sharing a new metric measuring productivity of parallel programming models, tackling the "Third P" with objectivity.
#SC24
Photo: A Cockrean
#SC24
Photo: A Cockrean
