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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🦾 🎩 Arm's Executive Vice President of Cloud AI Business, Mohamed Awad, was truly speaking our language at a tour of Isambard-AI last week. We discussed chip design (of course), data centre efficiency, case studies and the future of our ongoing 18 year relationship 🤯

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

We're having some very exciting conversations with, and visits from, companies and research teams at the frontier of UK AI advancement. Subscribe to our YouTube to be the first to see new case study films and video podcasts from our user base as they're uploaded. www.youtube.com/@BriCS-UoB

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🇯🇵 🇬🇧 One of the world's most influential supercomputing leaders, Satoshi Matsuoka, and the team from RIKEN visited Bristol. RIKEN built Fugaku, the most powerful supercomputer globally at launch in June 2020. 🗞️: www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen... @riken-sciverse.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand in the indoor garden at the new University of Bristol Sloane Robinson building

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand outside Isambard-AI, the UK's most powerful AI supercomputer.

RIKEN and BriCS colleagues stand outside Isambard Park 1, where Isambard 3 and Isambard-AI are located.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Introducing Node to Node, a video podcast series by BriCS, unearthing the projects, policies and ideas shaping AI in the UK. 🎧 ▶️ Listen and watch: lnkd.in/eNVJnad9 @simonmcs.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: Cancer pathology assisted by AI This team have used Isambard-AI to create a computational pathology system that aligns AI and clinical reasoning. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNAd... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

A microscope looks at a biopsy sample on a slide

Gregory Verghese and Dr. Christopher Banerji stand in front of building in London

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Isambard-AI is powering the UK's first frontier LLM, built by Cosine 🇬🇧 🎩 'Lumen Sovereign' is being developed for organisations that want control over where models run, how data is governed, and how systems are deployed. @bristoluni.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Amazing speaker line-up for 'From Compute to Community: How Isambard-AI Can Accelerate Startups and Shape the AI Ecosystem' 🎤 NVIDIA - Steve Davey Jessica Driscoll. Cosine - Niall Devlin. Department for Science, Innovation and Technology. BriCS - Emma, Andy and Rich Operating waitlist!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We are honoured to receive a National Infrastructure Excellence Award from The UK Cancer Vaccine AI Scientist & Supercomputing Project 🏆 This award recognises the exceptional infrastructure and expertise provided by the team behind Isambard-AI

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: Detecting Alzheimer's with a simple blood test 🧠 Dementia is the number one killer of people in the UK and it’s extremely hard to fight with medical interventions. But that’s all about to change. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KbO...

A visual of the models Prima Mente are using to make clinical breakthroughs

Ivan Koychev and Hannah Madan, from Prima Mente

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

It was a genuine pleasure to welcome one of our largest users, AI Security Institute, to Isambard-AI yesterday. The world's first state-backed AI security organisation meets the UK's most powerful supercomputer 🇬🇧 💪 Watch our latest case study with AISI Red team: www.youtube.com/watch?v=of2l...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Isambard-AI is the 13th fastest supercomputer in the world and retained its position as the 4th greenest supercomputer. ⚡ Powered by entirely renewable UK based sources ❄️ Uses direct liquid cooling (DLC) 🍃 Cut construction emissions by 72% Top500: lnkd.in/eecX-V_b Green500: lnkd.in/eJT2bVNN

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🎩 The BriCS team have built and deployed an open, sovereign software stack designed to give the UK long-term control over its AI infrastructure, while remaining flexible enough to evolve with a rapidly changing technology landscape. 👉 www.bristol.ac.uk/research/cen...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

🎬 CASE STUDY: AI Security Institute This team, as part of the UK Government, is looking at "data poisoning" - attacks where malicious data is hidden within the trillions of words and numbers used to train AI. ▶️ youtu.be/of2lgW6aBfY @bristoluni.bsky.social @simonmcs.bsky.social

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Today at London Tech Week, our Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, sat down with Claire Thorne from Deep Science Ventures, for a session called 'Isambard-AI - Tackling Humanity's Biggest Challenges.' The session covered many themes from project build and funding to software stack and agentic users 💡

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🎬CASE STUDY: Ensuring LLMs value human cooperation. We will increasingly hand over decision-making to LLMs and we must do all we can to ensure they act with our best interests at heart. Research collab between Geodesic Research and the UK's AI Security Institute. ▶️ youtu.be/PiXtHvKeSC0

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🎩 Last night, the BriCS team were delighted to attend the launch of the UK's Sovereign AI Fund, hosted by Tramshed Tech in Cardiff. 📢 The Sovereign AI Fund is the UK Government's new £500 million venture fund committed to backing Britain's AI founders, and BriCS are proud to support this!

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

CASE STUDY: Using AI to spot the earliest signs of disease in farm animals before they even show physical symptoms, allowing early intervention and cures. ▶️ youtu.be/p0WzurIUSuc

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🎬CASE STUDY: Pollution modelling for the UK. David Topping and his team are using Isambard-AI to create a high-resolution pollution modelling framework, open to all, supported by NVIDIA. ▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgRo...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Delighted to give the Premier of Sarawak and colleagues from SMD Semiconductor a tour of Isambard-AI this week. This new strategic partnership with Sarawak, Malaysia, is a part of strengthening University of Bristol's role in global semiconductor innovation. Image credit: UKAS

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🎩 Isambard-AI is proudly powering Sovereign AI's £500m fund for startups across the UK. Built like venture capital, funded by UK Government 🇬🇧 Apply for funding 👉 sovereignai.gov.uk/compute-stra... View the portfolio 👉 sovereignai.gov.uk/portfolio UK Gov announcement: lnkd.in/e7s8BKbT

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

🎂 9th April was the birthday of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the revolutionary British civil engineer. 🚂 Brunel's projects include the Great Western Railway, and the iconic Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, UK. 🎉 Isambard-AI, the UK's fastest and most powerful supercomputer, is named after him.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Monday 30th March was the 9th anniversary of the Isambard service 🎩 Pictured is BriCS Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, at the official EPSRC/UKRI launch of Isambard 1 in 2017. Then came Isambard 2 and Isambard 3. 7 years later, we'd start to build the UK's fastest supercomputer, Isambard-AI.

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Isambard Summit 2026 was made a huge success by the speakers, sponsors, and showcased projects. Thank you to everyone who contributed and attended. See you next year 🎩

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

BriCS' Director, @simonmcs.bsky.social, had the pleasure of giving Rt Hon Steve Reed OBE MP, and regional UK mayors, a tour of Isambard-AI yesterday, as part of a national mayoral event hosted by @bristoluni.bsky.social at NCC. READ: www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2026/ma...

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Bristol Centre for Supercomputing | BriCS @brics-uob.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🇬🇧 👑 1 month since we had a future King at the Isambard site. There have been many moments to be proud of during the Isambard project, this one is definitely up there. #supercomputing #hpc #ai #royal #sovereignai

BriCS Director Simon McIntosh-Smith and BriCS CTO Sadaf Alam talk with Prince William inside the Isambard-AI modular data centre. A cabinet is open and there are blue and red pipes from the direct liquid cooling system.

BriCS Director Simon McIntosh-Smith talks with Prince William inside the Isambard-AI modular data centre

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