The power to change our world

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.

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The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab

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.

463

exabytes of data will be created each day by 2025

40%

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

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University of Cambridge Strives for Zettascale

Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab researchers lay the foundation for future computing ecosystems with Intel® oneAPI Tools.

By COZL

31 Jul 23

ExCALIBUR International Extreme Data

Thanks to everyone who participated in the ExCALIBUR International Extreme Data programme.

By COZL

31 Jul 23

Data Centre Innovations

Dell's Accelerated Understanding microsite hosts the Research Computing Services, Intel and Dell Technologies film series on innovations in data centre technology.

By COZL

19 Jul 23

ExCALIBUR International Extreme Data

Our ExCALIBUR International Extreme Data programme kicked off on July 18 2023.

By COZL

19 Jul 23

ISC '23 Diversity Day

At ISC '23, Diversity Day saw the Research Computing Services and Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab teams supporting Women in HPC.

By COZL

01 Jun 23

Stefanie Reuter gives Women in HPC lightning talk at ISC '23

At ISC '23, Research Software Engineer Stefanie Reuter from the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab gave a lightning talk.

By COZL

01 Jun 23

Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab deploys UK's first GPU Max testbed

Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab at the University of Cambridge has deployed the first Max GPU 'Ponte Vecchio' testbed in the UK.

By COZL

01 Jun 23

White Paper: Software Scalability in Exabyte Computing Systems

Migrating to exascale and, eventually, zettascale computing requires software optimized to make highly efficient use of the multi-core, heterogeneous systems. The Open Zettascale Lab at the University of Cambridge is tackling software portability challenges as it transitions from petabyte- to exabyte-scale systems and beyond, opening doors to new scientific and engineering breakthroughs with mainstream business applications not far behind.

Cambridge Open Exascale Lab at CIUK 2022

Principal Systems Engineer Bob Cregan representing COZL and the Cambridge Service for Data Driven Discovery.

By COZL

01 Dec 22

Themes

Seven 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.

Energy-Efficient Computing

The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is undertaking advanced research to improve the efficiency of contemporary high-performance computing.

Extreme-Scale Visualisation

Exascale-class systems will generate huge data sets that are impossible to comprehend without further processing.

High-Performance Ethernet for Zettascale

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 Centre of Excellence

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: Creating a Cloud-Native, Software-Defined Supercomputer

Scientific OpenStack® creates a very powerful and flexible environment to manage and use large-scale high-performance systems.

Zettascale Systems for Urgent Computing

Large-scale parallel simulation and modeling are not only crucial for research and scientific exploration, these applications play an increasingly integral role in guiding our responses to crises.

Zettascale-Class Storage Solutions

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.