The UK government has announced that Edinburgh will be home to a new exascale supercomputer. The computer will be 50 times more powerful than the UK's best supercomputer, the ARCHER2.
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The UK is planning to spend nearly £1 billion to develop a new exascale supercomputer. The plan was unveiled during the Chancellor's Spring Budget. There's also prize money for those who advance AI.
AMD's next-gen Epyc and Instinct will be inside the El Capitan exascale supercomputer. Expected to be the fastest Supercomputer ever, it will be overlooking U.S. nuclear research operations.
At SC19, Intel revealed more information about its GPU-accelerated HPC, AI and exascale ambitions. The company also announced the rumored Ponte Vecchio GPU which will drive such solutions.
