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AtlasEdge (UK)CompaniesEuropean edge data centre firm formed by Liberty Global and DigitalBridge, with a relaunched Leeds site and two Manchester sites under construction.regional edge data centresKey facts Formed 2021 as Liberty Global–DigitalBridge joint venture, later backed by Digital Realty; Leeds LBA001 (former Cornelius House) bought 2022-02 and relaunched 2024-03 after more than £13m upgrades, 11,000 sq ft, 400 racks; two Manchester data centres under construction with planning permission (2024-03); no AI-specific offer statedLeedsdatacenterdynamics.com/en/news/atlasedge-relauncone source
Calder, University of LeedsData centres and compute sitesLeeds's next central HPC system, with 56 NVIDIA H200 GPUs on Dell servers supplied by MTI. purchase phase; due Spring 2026university GPU clusterKey facts 56 NVIDIA H200 141GB PCIe (7 nodes × 8); 98 CPU nodes of 768 GB; 12,228 AMD EPYC 9555 cores; 50 TB NFS and 5.4 PB Lustre; 100 Gb/s InfiniBand; predecessor Aire (84 GPUs, 9,072 cores); cost not published (2025-12)Leedsarc.leeds.ac.uk/knowledge-centre/calder-unveiledone source
OCFCompaniesSheffield integrator that builds and manages GPU-accelerated supercomputers and AI clusters, mainly for UK universities.HPC and AI integratorKey facts Company reg. no. 4132533 printed on site; deployed "Europe's first Tesla cards in 2007"; Lenovo UK Infrastructure Partner of the Year (2025-06-13); built Ada for the University of Nottingham, 80+ Lenovo servers with NVIDIA A100 and H200 (2025-07-29); built Comet for Newcastle University with Lenovo servers and NVIDIA GPUs (2026-03-09); Xinnor storage distribution deal (2026-04-20); runs OCF Steel HPC and AI management platformChapeltown, Sheffieldocf.co.uk/solutions/ai/ai-hardware · ocf.co.uk/about-us/latest-news/verified
Stanage, University of SheffieldData centres and compute sitesSheffield's central HPC cluster on Dell servers, with 104 NVIDIA GPUs stated, including newly added H100 NVL nodes. active; GPU nodes added 2025-12 and 2026-01university GPU clusterKey facts Stated totals: 104 GPUs, 205 worker nodes, 12,896 CPU cores (per-node rows on the page do not sum to these); 13 Dell XE8545 nodes with 4 × A100 80GB; 6 Dell R7525 nodes with 2 × H100 80GB; Dell R760xa nodes with 4 × H100 NVL 94GB, 16 H100 NVL after two more nodes (2026-01); 2.2 PB Lustre; one 8 × RTX 6000 Pro server ordered (2026-01); cost not publishedSheffielddocs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/stanage/cluster_sp · docs.hpc.shef.ac.uk/en/latest/newsletter/2026011verified
Viking (University of York)Data centres and compute sitesUniversity of York's research compute cluster (Tier-3), accessed through an OpenOnDemand portal.York (—)york.ac.uk/it-services/tools/research/research-ione source

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