Globally influential figures in the world of AI supercomputing, from Japan and the UK, brought their teams together to forge closer personal connections, share challenges and explore innovations.
Ask every person on Earth, all 8bn, to do one calculation every second, all day, every day, for 80 years. That's what it would take to match what Isambard-AI can do in a single second. It's the analogy Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith reaches for when he wants to explain how much computing power the supercomputer holds.
From dementia to dairy farming, financial forecasting to frontier AI safety, teams across the UK have logged millions of GPU hours on Isambard-AI, turning compute into real breakthroughs.
In this article, Hewlett Packard Enterprise speak to Isambard-AI user, Eghbal Rahimkia, Assistant Professor in Financial Technology, Alliance Manchester Business School at the University of Manchester, as a part of their Digital Game Changers series.
The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project has presented its National Infrastructure Excellence Award to the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing (BriCS) team, recognising their outstanding contribution to advancing artificial intelligence, scientific discovery and cancer vaccine research across the United Kingdom.
Isambard-AI has been developed using open-source software, open standards and community-driven technologies. This approach provides the flexibility to adopt future innovations without rebuilding the entire platform.
BriCS User Engagement Manager, Andy Hazell, writes up the key announcements and headlines from London Tech Week 2026
Isambard-AI combines highly advanced systems architecture and rapid deployment with world-leading sovereign AI stack to deliver the UK’s most powerful AI computing capability.
We are celebrating the inclusion of our Director, Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, and Chief Technology Officer, Dr Sadaf Alam, in the inaugural SCW75 list, launched this week by Scientific Computing World.
Sovereign AI is the UK Government’s bet to back homegrown AI founders to drive growth and create jobs across the UK.
Researchers, policymakers and technology leaders have gathered in Bristol this week for the Isambard Summit 2026 (IS26), showcasing how investment in AI and advanced computing is helping deliver the UK Government’s growth and industrial strategy.
The West of England's Mayor welcomed ministers and fellow mayors for the first time to the West Innovation Arc Growth Zone - the fastest growing part of the West, which is itself the country's fastest growing regional economy. The Mayoral Council was today hosted in South Gloucestershire at NCC, the University of Bristol's world-leading research and development centre.
The Prince of Wales learnt about the incredible research and innovation taking place at the University of Bristol when he visited two of its world-leading research facilities today (22 January).
Our student cluster team, the 'Isambards' made history at this year's SC25 conference in St Louis, Missouri, by being the first UK-based team to compete in the in-person student cluster competition (SCC).
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