Nvidia unveils the UK's fastest supercomputer

Date:
Wed, 07 Jul 2021 13:19:51 +0000

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Nvidia Cambridge-1 should bring a significant boost to the UKs healthcare industry.

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Nvidia has launched its Cambridge-1 supercomputer, reportedly the most powerful supercomputer in the UK, in a bid to bolster the countrys world-leading life sciences industry.

The supercomputer represents $100 million worth of investment by Nvidia, and has been made available to external researchers in the UK healthcare
industry.

Cambridge-1 will empower world-leading researchers in business and academia with the ability to perform their lifes work on the UKs most powerful supercomputer, unlocking clues to disease and treatments at a scale and speed previously impossible in the UK, said Jensen Huang , founder and CEO of Nvidia. Check out our list of the best cloud computing services right now These are the best cloud hosting services on the market Weve also rounded up the best cloud analytics services

An NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD supercomputing cluster, the Cambridge-1 ranks at
number 41 on the Top 500 supercomputers list and is fully powered by
renewable energy. AI for healthcare

Nvidia claims it has poured all its artificial intelligence ( AI ) and simulation expertise into the supercomputer, and hopes it will enable healthcare researchers in their efforts to fight Covid-19.

The company leans on a report by Frontier Economics that says Cambridge-1 has the potential to create an estimated value of 600 million (about $825
million) over the next decade.

This is an Nvidia industrial supercomputer owned and operated by Nvidia, and its the first one that were opening up to public use, said Kimberly Powell, vice president of healthcare at Nvidia speaking to VentureBeat .

Nvidia complimented the supercomputers launch by announcing a handful of healthcare projects with various research institutes and companies, such as AstraZeneca, GSK, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, Kings College London and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. These are the best cloud databases
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