Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith

So there's training type project.

There's lots of projects in sort of health space where we're looking at things like automatically analyzing images of moles on the skin to try and determine if they're cancerous or not.

And lots of projects doing things like, can we automatically optimize or discover new kinds of drugs, which might be something that will treat cancer.

It might be a vaccine.

We've got some projects looking at vaccines for dementia.

So this is the kind of thing in five or 10 years time, we might be able to go to the doctors and get a vaccine that will protect us from say Alzheimer's.

And that was developed on Isambard today.

It's really exciting.

So how do people come and run these projects?

The allocation process is actually run by the people who funded the system.

So that's part of the UK government.

called DSIT.

So they and UKRI, who's our National Research Council, they run regular calls.

So they say, we're looking for projects in this kind of area.

Please submit a proposal.

Lots of researchers and companies as well, by the way, can submit proposals with their ideas.

And if the government likes what they've suggested, they'll award them the time as a grant, as a free grant on the system.

And these have been anything from

Smaller projects, 10, 20, 50,000 GPU hours.

We now have big projects being allocated on the system.