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11 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: North West page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| CSF3 NVIDIA H200 expansion, University of ManchesterData centres and compute sites | Manchester added 32 NVIDIA H200 GPUs to its Computational Shared Facility (CSF3) research cluster in late 2025. deployedGPU cluster expansionKey facts Four 8-way NVIDIA H200 HGX nodes (32 × H200 141 GB); 230 TB storage; Dell hosts, up to 11 kW each; Alces integration; deployed late 2025; Research Lifecycle Programme investment in CSF3 reported 2026-04-28; cost and funder not published | Manchester | research-it.manchester.ac.uk/news/2026/06/09/new · research-it.manchester.ac.uk/tag/csf/ | verified |
| Hartree CentreData centres and compute sites | Compute centre at Daresbury listed in the UK Compute Roadmap annex; hosted the first JADE GPU service.Models and products (1)
| Daresbury (—) | gov.uk/government/publications/uk-compute-roadma · ukri.org/who-we-are/stfc/facilities/daresbury-la · hartree.stfc.ac.uk/news/2023/02/13/new-30-millio · hartree.stfc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ha | one source |
| Hartree Centre, IBM and UKAEA fusion foundation-model partnershipPartnerships and contracts | STFC Hartree Centre, IBM and UKAEA will build AI foundation models from fusion experiment data to help design future powerplants. announcedfusion AI modelsKey facts Models to learn the dynamics of experimental fusion data; UKAEA contributes data and modelling from JET and MAST-U; no funding figure; named: Rob Akers (UKAEA), Kate Royse (Hartree), Juan Bernabe Moreno (IBM Research Europe, UK and Ireland), Vassil Alexandrov (Hartree) (2024-12-10) | Daresbury | hartree.stfc.ac.uk/news/2024/12/10/a-new-partner | one source |
| JADE (Joint Academic Data science Endeavour)Data centres and compute sites | Oxford-led deep-learning Tier-2 service at the STFC Hartree Centre, Daresbury: 22 Nvidia DGX-1 servers supplied by Atos; £3m from EPSRC (2017); decommissioned September 2021. decommissioned | Daresbury (—) | hpc-uk.ac.uk/facilities/ · datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-universities-g | verified |
| Mary Coombs (Hartree Centre AI supercomputer)Data centres and compute sites | 24.41-petaflop GPU-based AI supercomputer run by STFC's Hartree Centre at Sci-Tech Daresbury, in a new £30m supercomputing centre. deployed | Sci-Tech Daresbury (—) | datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/uk-stfc-deploys-2 · hartree.stfc.ac.uk/news/2025/10/20/stfc-launches | one source |
| Quantinuum–Hartree Centre quantum computing accessPartnerships and contracts | Quantinuum makes its H1-Series quantum computers available to UK businesses and researchers through the STFC Hartree Centre. announcedquantum hardware accessKey facts H1-Series hardware via cloud or on site at Hartree; target areas quantum chemistry, computational biology, quantum AI, quantum-augmented cybersecurity; terms not disclosed; Quantinuum CEO Raj Hazra (2024-07-11) | Daresbury | hartree.stfc.ac.uk/news/2024/07/11/partnership-b | one source |
| Quantum Dice–Hartree Centre collaborationPartnerships and contracts | Oxford quantum spin-out Quantum Dice and the Hartree Centre agreed to widen industrial use of its random-number and probabilistic computing technology. signedQRNG, probabilistic computingKey facts Collaboration agreement plus Joint Statement of Endeavour (2025-12-03); short term: QRNG use cases in materials, manufacturing, product design, logistics; longer term: validate the probabilistic computing platform and host it at Hartree; no financial terms; CEO Ramy Aboushelbaya, COO Zhanet Zaharieva | Daresbury | hartree.stfc.ac.uk/news/2025/12/03/stfc-hartree- | one source |
| Scafell Pike (Hartree Centre)Data centres and compute sites | Hartree Centre system using Intel Skylake CPUs and Xeon Phi accelerators, due to be replaced by a 44.7-petaflop Lenovo system. in service March 2024; due for replacement | Daresbury (—) | datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/447-petaflops-hpc · news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/stfc-ha | one source |
| Scan Computers (Scan AI and Scan Cloud)Companies | Bolton computer maker and NVIDIA partner that sells and hosts NVIDIA GPU systems, including a DGX cloud service, for UK customers.NVIDIA DGX managed serviceKey facts NVIDIA DGX-ready managed service provider status, one of eleven worldwide (2025-02-10); DGX B200 cluster with eight B200 GPUs, described as Europe's first (2025-02); earlier DGX A100, H100 and H200 installations (2025-02); cloud GPUs offered include B200, H100, H200 NVL, L40, RTX PRO 6000 (2026-10); rack-scale Vera Rubin NVL72, GB300 NVL72 and GB200 NVL72 for sale (2026-10) | Horwich, Bolton | scan.co.uk/cloud-solutions · scan.co.uk/info/presszone/scan/nvidia/dgx-ready | verified |
| Scan DGX Cloud and Enterprise GPU CloudChips, models and products | Scan's rented GPU service: hosted NVIDIA DGX B200 systems and single servers of up to eight GPUs, sold on subscription.hosted DGX B200Key facts DGX B200 system: 8 Blackwell GPUs, 1,440 GB GPU memory, 72 petaFLOPS training, 14.3 kW (2026-10); Enterprise GPU Cloud up to 8 GPUs per system (2026-10); hosting at unnamed "NVIDIA-approved hosting partners" (2026-10) | Horwich, Bolton | scan.co.uk/cloud-solutions · scan.co.uk/ai-solutions/nvidia-rack-scale-cluste | one source |
| Unilever–Hartree Centre computing partnershipPartnerships and contracts | Unilever R&D has used the STFC Hartree Centre as a materials chemistry computing partner for over a decade, now including AI and quantum.industrial HPC partnershipKey facts Partnership "for over a decade" (Hartree Centre Strategy 2024–2029, published 2024-04); covers several science areas, talent, and joint AI and quantum work; quote attributed to Alberto Prado (role not captured); money not stated | Daresbury | hartree.stfc.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Ha | one source |