EPCC - UK's leading supercomputing centre - adds Graphcore IPU System

EPCC, the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh, is perhaps best known for being home to the UK's most powerful supercomputer, ARCHER2. Sitting alongside it, very soon, will be our first Graphcore IPU Pod. These two quite different machines perfectly illustrate the centre's mission: to accelerate the effective exploitation of novel computing throughout industry, academia and commerce. In Graphcore's Intelligence Processing Unit, we recognised a tool that will be of huge interest to our many partners, allowing them and the EPCC team to explore innovative applications of AI within their scientific and business challenges. The IPU's unique architecture is rooted in a deep understanding of the novel and idiosyncratic compute requirements of AI.