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Description

The University of Bristol hosts the Isambard-AI supercomputer to support UK researchers.

Scope

  • Isambard-AI uses 5,448 NVIDIA GH200 superchips and delivers about 21 exaFLOPS of AI performance (~2×10^19 dense INT8 operations per second).1
  • Earlier Isambard systems provide additional, smaller capacity.

Total compute: around 2×10^19 dense INT8 operations per second.

Implications

This infrastructure positions the University of Bristol as a major hub for UK AI research, but also centralizes significant compute within a single academic institution.

Works cited

  1. NVIDIA Blog, “Isambard-AI: UK’s 21-ExaFLOP Supercomputer,” 2024. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/isambard-ai-uk-supercomputer/