The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
@neil i declare a vested interest in academic HPC ($dayjob), but it's an absolute crap time to try and get any good deals from hardware vendors right now, especially with something as "small" as 36 million. AI speculation trading by the hyperscalers and wannabe hyperscalers has really stung the rest of us who want to do Real Science rather than draw silly pictures:-(
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
This is far from the first UK government to throw money at buying hardware that is not very useful for computer science research, while simultaneously underinvesting in computer science research. And then complaining that UK universities are slipping in international rankings for computer science.
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This is far from the first UK government to throw money at buying hardware that is not very useful for computer science research, while simultaneously underinvesting in computer science research. And then complaining that UK universities are slipping in international rankings for computer science.
I guess because politicians (like most people) think that computer science has something to do with computers.
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This is far from the first UK government to throw money at buying hardware that is not very useful for computer science research, while simultaneously underinvesting in computer science research. And then complaining that UK universities are slipping in international rankings for computer science.
@david_chisnall @neil
Government always love to be seen *investing* in something. But then paying for *maintenance*, to make best use of the shiny new asset, has been massively out of fashion for *years*.Buying new toys for your child, but skimping when it comes to their food.
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
@neil 16Gb of DDR 3 as well
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I guess because politicians (like most people) think that computer science has something to do with computers.
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
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@neil I so detest this ... last year it was the Cambridge Supercomputer. This year it's the Cambridge AI System. It's the same fucking box (or the same fucking room full of racks full of boxes). Nothing has changed. It's not intelligent. There's nothing "AI" about this thing. Yet here we are, UK Govt AI Slop galore. So sad.
@otte_homan @neil It‘s clever! Fulfillment of hyped expectations and wording without actually wasting time on it.
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
@neil by the time government procurement is ready they'll be lucky to get 8GB
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
@neil TBF in the 1970s we had a CDC Cyber 173, and we paid A$100,000 roughly of 100,000 (octal, so 32K decimal) 60 bit words of main memory!
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The UK government is to spend "£36 million to increase the power of one of the UK’s leading supercomputing centres".
The £36m will go on 16GB of RAM.
Cambridge supercomputer set to get 6 times more powerful as government backs British AI innovation
£36 million government investment into AI supercomputer in Cambridge
GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
@neil by the time I read this toot, £36m will now only buy 1GB of RAM and a Freddo
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