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8 records Generated from this page's data. Click a name to open its panel on the Places: South West page. Records resting on one source are tagged "one source".| Record | What it is | Place | Links | Confidence |
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| BlueCrystal 4Data centres and compute sites | University of Bristol's own HPC cluster (Tier-3), used for test runs before applying to national services. | Bristol (—) | bristol.ac.uk/acrc/high-performance-computing/na | one source |
| IONOS Cloud GPU VM (IONOS Cloud UK Ltd)Companies | UK-registered cloud company renting NVIDIA H200 GPU virtual machines, billed by the minute and priced in pounds.H200 GPU virtual machinesKey facts NVIDIA H200 PCIe in 1, 2, 4 or 8-GPU sizes; H200-S £2.554/hour to H200-XL £20.436/hour (page seen 2026-10-30); hosting described as 100% European, ISO 27001 | Gloucester (registered office: 2 Cathedral Walk, The Forum) | cloud.ionos.co.uk/cloud-gpu-vm | one source |
| Isambard (first GW4 system)Data centres and compute sites | Arm-based Tier-2 supercomputer funded by EPSRC for the GW4 universities (Bristol, Bath, Cardiff, Exeter), led by the University of Bristol. historical (succeeded by Isambard 3) | Bristol (—) | bristol.ac.uk/acrc/high-performance-computing/na · ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/EPSRC-050722 · bristol.ac.uk/research/centres/bristol-supercomp | verified |
| Isambard 3Data centres and compute sites | Tier-2 supercomputer of the GW4 universities led by the University of Bristol; 384 NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchip nodes; separate from Isambard-AI. | Bristol (—) | ukri.org/councils/epsrc/facilities-and-resources · docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/other-uk-hpc-resou · bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/isambard-3-investmen | verified |
| Isambard-AI data repository (BriCS)Schemes, programmes and AI lines | New government data repository to sit alongside Isambard-AI at the Bristol Centre for Supercomputing. announced | Bristol (—) | gov.uk/government/publications/ai-for-science-st | one source |
| Met Office supercomputer (Microsoft Azure-based)Data centres and compute sites | Met Office forecasting supercomputer run by Microsoft on Azure in dedicated halls of Microsoft data centres under a £1.2bn contract awarded February 2021. | Exeter (operator HQ; system location not stated) (—) | gov.uk/government/news/record-breaking-150bn-inv · datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/met-office-switch | verified |
| Monsoon2 (joint NERC–Met Office service)Data centres and compute sites | Joint NERC and Met Office supercomputing service on the Met Office Cray XC40, for environmental research. | Exeter (—) | ukri.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/NERC-150925- · ukri.org/councils/nerc/facilities%20and%20resour | verified |
| PitchwiseCompanies | University of Bristol student spin-out making AI video tracking for grassroots football; awarded 5,500 GPU hours on Isambard-AI.AIRR compute recipientKey facts 5,500 GPU hours on Isambard-AI valued at £25,000, through UKRI's AI Research Resource, supported by Innovate UK (2025-11-06); phone-mounted hardware, AI vision software and companion app for match tracking, highlights and stats | Bristol | bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/november/spin-out-superc | one source |