← Back to the Places: North East tiles
Cloud and compute
6 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: North East page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bede (formerly NICE-19)Data centres and compute sites | EPSRC-funded Tier-2 GPU cluster run by N8 CIR at Durham: IBM Power9 nodes with Nvidia V100s plus GH200 Grace Hopper nodes; due for permanent decommissioning 31 July 2026. decommissioned (scheduled) | Durham (—) | docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/other-uk-hpc-resou · ri.itservices.manchester.ac.uk/?p=7513 · ocf.co.uk/higher-education | verified |
| Comet, Newcastle UniversityData centres and compute sites | Newcastle University HPC system built with OCF on Lenovo servers and NVIDIA GPUs.university HPCKey facts Lenovo ThinkSystem servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Lustre parallel file system, managed with OCF Steel Stack (OCF case study 2026-03-09); counts and cost not seen (case-study page did not open); relation to Rocket (BIZ-CLD-2083) not stated | Newcastle | ocf.co.uk/about-us/latest-news/ | one source |
| DiRAC COSMA (COSMA 8)Data centres and compute sites | DiRAC memory-intensive service at Durham University for cosmological simulations; the £10m COSMA 8 (Cosmology Machine 8), AMD-based, launched October 2023. | Durham (—) | docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/other-uk-hpc-resou · datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/durham-university · dirac.ac.uk/memory-intensive-durham/ | verified |
| Higgs HPC cluster, Northumbria UniversityData centres and compute sites | Northumbria University's first university-wide HPC cluster, built on Lenovo servers with AMD EPYC processors and integrated by Logicalis.first university-wide HPCKey facts "Multi-million pound" (amount not disclosed); Lenovo ThinkSystem servers and storage, AMD EPYC 9004, Ubiquity software; capabilities to be reviewed and expanded over five years; GPU and node counts not stated (2024-11-20) | England: North East | newsroom.northumbria.ac.uk/pressreleases/superco · lenovo.com/gb/en/case-studies-customer-success-s | verified |
| Rocket (Newcastle University HPC)Data centres and compute sites | Newcastle University's university-wide HPC service with over 5,000 cores and 500TB storage (Tier-3). | Newcastle upon Tyne (—) | services.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/research/rescomp | one source |
| Topsy (Newcastle SAgE Faculty HPC)Data centres and compute sites | 1,000-core HPC system owned and run by Newcastle University's Science, Agriculture and Engineering (SAgE) Faculty. | Newcastle upon Tyne (—) | services.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/research/rescomp | one source |