Under the bonnet at Dawn, the UK's fastest AI supercomputer
17 March 2025How AI supercomputer, Dawn, is being used to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
How AI supercomputer, Dawn, is being used to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan. Â
Dawn is now being deployed for use by scientists within ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª and across the UK to support ambitious goals in clean energy, personalised medicine and climate.
The ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª Open Zettascale Lab is hosting Dawn, the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, which has been built by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª Research Computing Services, Intel and Dell Technologies.
Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding and overcoming the challenges associated with nickel-rich materials used in lithium-ion batteries.
An international group of scientists led by the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª has finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope. When complete, the SKA will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky much faster than any system currently in existence.
The UK’s fastest academic supercomputer, based at the ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª, will be made available to artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies from across the UK, in support of the government’s industrial strategy.Â
The ¹ú¼ÊÃ×À¼¶ÔÕó¿ÆÄª is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.Â
The ‘world’s largest IT project’ — a system with the power of one hundred million home computers — may help to unravel many of the mysteries of our universe: how it began, how it developed and whether humanity is alone in the cosmos.
Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns – form and shape the evolution of galaxies.