High Performance Computing

Solve your research problems or use high performance computing in your teaching

 

Bristol's HPC environments are available for staff, post graduate student and honorary staff use. 

BluePebble

The BluePebble supercomputer is also based on the x86_64 architecture and consists of:

  • 170 nodes in use with between 24 - 32 cores. The majority of these have 192GB of RAM

  • 19 generally available GPU enabled nodes: A mix of NVIDIA RTX2080Ti, NVIDIA RTX309 and NVIDIA V100 (typically each GPU node has 4 GPU cards and 96GB RAM)

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BlueCrystal 5  

Bristol's newest supercomputer, BlueCrystal 5 (BC5) is based on the x86_64 architecture and consists of:

  • 342 standard CPU nodes with 32 cores

  • 4 large memory CPU nodes with 56 cores

  • 4 NVIDIA A100 VIDIA GPUs with 16 cores

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BlueCryo

ACRC maintains the BBSRC funded BlueCryo HPC cluster dedicated to image processing for the GW4 Cryo-EM facility which supports pioneering cryo-microsopy research at the University of Bristol.  

 

BlueCrystal 4

As planned, the BlueCrystal 4 service is closing this Autumn. Find out more.

Introduction to HPC and the ACRC HPC systems (PowerPoint with narration).

 

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Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI

Bristol researchers have exclusive access to a proportion of the compute resources on the two supercomputers, Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI. Both environments are managed by BriCS. 

You can apply for access to Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI either via an internal University of Bristol application process or via national calls for access. The national calls are aimed at researchers who need large-scale compute resources. 

Find out more and apply for access.  

 

UK HPC Facilities

View all UK HPC facilities for research. Find out about capabilities and access criteria.

 

EuroHPC

Through the UK's membership of EuroHPC, University of Bristol researchers can apply for access to nine peta- and exascale European supercomputers.

UK researchers can also apply for Horizon Europe funded EuroHPC Research & Innovation calls in partnership with other European research institutions.