| EPSRC Reference: |
EP/T022078/1 |
| Title: |
GW4 Tier-2 HPC Centre for Advanced Architectures |
| Principal Investigator: |
McIntosh-Smith, Professor SN |
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| Department: |
Computer Science |
| Organisation: |
University of Bristol |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research - NR1 |
| Starts: |
01 February 2020 |
Ends: |
31 January 2023 |
Value (£): |
4,108,144
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| Panel History: |
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28 Oct 2019
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Tier 2 HPC Interview Panel 2019
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Announced
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Summary on Grant Application Form |
This proposal, led by Bristol, is from the Consortium behind the successful Isambard Tier-2 HPC service [1]: the GW4 Alliance of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter, in partnership with Cray and the Met Office. Isambard delivered the world's first production, Arm-based HPC service, creating significant impact for the world-wide HPC community in the process. The Isambard 2 project aims to build on this success, adding the next generation of exciting, Exascale-enabling, Arm-based technologies (Fujitsu's A64fx), while significantly expanding and upgrading the current service to meet growing demand. The A64fx CPU is generating excitement because it delivers memory bandwidth and floating point capability that is more like a GPU than a CPU (approximately 1 TeraByte/s and 3 TeraFLOP/s double precision, respectively). Providing access to these transformational technologies in parallel with an expanded Arm-based production system as a national service would be extremely advantageous to the UK's HPC community, supporting the porting and optimising of codes for future Exascale systems (the Fugaku system at RIKEN in Japan is just one example known to be based on A64fx). The Isambard 2 system will also provide one of the world's most comprehensive Multi Architecture Comparison System (MACS), significantly expanding the successful Isambard 1 MACS. The ability to compare next generation technologies with a constantly updated set of best-in-class CPUs and GPUs is a crucial part of any scientifically rigorous architectural evaluation. Being a Cray system, we will continue to uniquely offer their class-leading software toolchain to the Tier-2 community, a crucial capability to enable upward mobility from Tier-3 through Tier-2 to Tier-1.
[1] https://gw4-isambard.github.io/docs/
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| Organisation Website: |
http://www.bris.ac.uk |