Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith

The pipes are green.

Actually, the water has been dyed green deliberately in case there's a leak.

which makes it much easier to spot.

In fact, the dye also fluoresces under an artificial light.

And you can see the copper plates with the little copper pipes.

It's all part of the cooling loop so that we can get the heat extracted from the GPUs into the water and outside to be cooled down again.

one of these would get you a decent flat somewhere, absolutely.

So these are very, very valuable things, but in the spirit of old fashioned TV, here's one I prepared earlier.

And we do have one of the GPUs, that one you can touch, that one doesn't work anymore.

Yeah, currently Isambard AI is actually ranked number 11 on the top 500, which is sort of the league table of international supercomputers.

It's the most powerful in the UK by a long way today.

There are other AI research resource computers coming and national supercomputers.

But today Isambard AI is about 10 times more powerful than the second most powerful computer in the country.

So a lot of the UK's compute power is in this room right now.

So we're now up to over two and a half thousand users and over 600 different projects all running on Isambard AI.

And it's across a very wide range of anything and anything you can imagine to do with AI.

Some of the projects are, for example, training large language models,

which might have a unique set of data going into them.

So for example, we have one project training a large language model based on UK legal case law and also other UK languages.

So not just English, but also say Welsh and Scots Gaelic.