Themes
Several key themes define the focus of the Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab, serving as a foundation for its research and collaboration. These themes are explored through a regular stream of projects, publications, and technical outputs. As the state of the art in computing evolves, new themes will emerge, reflecting the Lab’s adaptive approach to advancing high-performance computing and addressing the most pressing challenges in science and technology.
Artificial Intelligence
This theme focuses on the development, optimisation, and deployment of AI models on high-performance computing infrastructure—enabling breakthroughs in areas such as personalised medicine, climate modelling, materials science, and fusion energy.
High Performance Ethernet
While Ethernet has long been the dominant standard in enterprise networks, it is only recently beginning to demonstrate the low-latency performance needed for demanding high-performance computing workloads—opening new possibilities for unifying enterprise and HPC infrastructure.
High Performance Storage Solutions
Storage is a critical challenge in modern high-performance computing systems. The rapid growth in data generation and usage across science, engineering, medicine, and industry has exposed limitations in traditional storage architectures. As data analysis becomes an increasingly central part of supercomputing workflows, performance bottlenecks and system slowdowns are becoming more common—highlighting the need for next-generation storage solutions that can keep pace with evolving computational demands.
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.