Our mission is to make zettascale possible, exascale practical.
The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is dedicated to making exascale practical while facilitating innovation in emerging zettascale technologies.
Formed in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College, Intel and Dell Technologies, the Zettascale Lab enables technology leaders and experts from around the world to explore, test and advance the next generation of high performance computers.
As of November 1 2023, Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is home to the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence supercomputer – Dawn. Built by the University of Cambridge’s COZL and Research Computing Services, Intel and Dell Technologies, Dawn was announced by the UK government on 1 November 2023 to coincide with the AI Safety Summit, led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
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Zettascale refers to the next generation of supercomputers.
Zettascale systems will combine high performance computing for simulation and artificial intelligence training with ultra-fast data storage and analytics.
These capabilities will allow scientists, engineers and clinicians to perform the advanced research and development necessary to begin solving the world’s critical problems.
With zettascale-class systems, we can better understand the nature of the universe, design new materials and clean energy solutions, as well as develop and deliver personalised medicine and data-driven healthcare.
exabytes of data will be created each day by 2025
of the overall HPC market is supercomputers
exascale computing systems will come online in 2025
it is predicted that the first zettascale system will be assembled in 2035
The University welcomed the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Rt Hon Pat McFadden MP, to tour the Dawn supercomputer and discuss the ways in which AI can transform public services and healthcare.
The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.
Dr. Paul Calleja, Director of the Zettascale Lab and Cambridge Research Computing Services (RCS), took the stage this morning at the HPC Advisory Council Conference in Leicester to share insights on the groundbreaking AI and high-performance computing (HPC) innovations being developed at the University of Cambridge.
The Zettascale Lab's first Dawn Pioneer Projects: Show and Tell Day, held on Friday 27th September in Cambridge, was a significant milestone for the Lab.
Three new opportunities to help shape and deliver the UK's first National AI Research Service have now opened in our team.
The University of Cambridge’s Dawn team are this year’s Gold Sponsors of the annual Research Software Engineering Conference 2024.
At Dell Technology World 2024 in Las Vegas, RCS Direct Paul Calleja offered his thoughts at a mainstage ‘Trailblazers’ session on the future of AI.
Sign up for the University of Cambridge's Accelerate Programme AI Café at the West Hub in Cambridge on 20 May 2024.
COZL senior software engineer Kacper Kornet presenting at the IXPUG user group meeting at International Supercomputing Conference 2024.
Five key themes define the initial focus of the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab. A regular series of projects, publications and technical resources will evidence the progress of these themes, and more themes will be elaborated as the Lab matures.
The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is undertaking advanced research to improve the efficiency of contemporary high performance computing.
Ethernet is ubiquitous in the enterprise space but is only now showing promise in terms of its latency performance in an high performance computing environment.
oneAPI is a new scalable programming model from Intel that targets heterogenous systems, easing the task of programming for and running code on different computer architectures.
Scientific OpenStack® creates a very powerful and flexible environment to manage and use large-scale high performance systems.
Storage for zettascale systems is an area of significant challenge. The explosion in the production and use of data in science, engineering, medicine and industry has led to performance bottlenecks and system slowdowns as traditional high performance computing storage architectures fail to keep up with the increasingly important role that analysis plays in supercomputing workflows.
Learn the fundamentals of programming in a heterogeneous environment.
Learn the fundamentals of programming in a heterogeneous environment.
This two-part workshop will focus on the use of DPC++/OpenMP for offloading on to GPUs.
The latest talks, workshops and training events from the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab.