Under the bonnet at Dawn, the UK's fastest AI supercomputer
17 March 2025How AI supercomputer, Dawn, is being used to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing humanity.
Minister for AI and Digital Government visits Cambridge to tour the DAWN supercomputer
13 January 2025The Minister for AI and Digital Government, Feryal Clark MP, visited the University of Cambridge on the day the Government announced their new AI Action Plan.
Ambitious goals for Dawn – the UK's fastest AI supercomputer
23 February 2024Dawn is now being deployed for use by scientists within Cambridge and across the UK to support ambitious goals in clean energy, personalised medicine and climate.
Cambridge, Intel and Dell join forces on UK’s fastest AI supercomputer
01 November 2023The Cambridge Open Zettascale Lab is hosting Dawn, the UK’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, which has been built by the University of Cambridge Research Computing Services, Intel and Dell Technologies.
Oxygen ‘holes’ could hold the key to higher performing EV batteries
19 July 2023Scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding and overcoming the challenges associated with nickel-rich materials used in lithium-ion batteries.
Design work on ‘brain’ of world’s largest radio telescope completed
09 May 2019An international group of scientists led by the University of Cambridge has finished designing the ‘brain’ of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), the world’s largest radio telescope. When complete, the SKA will enable astronomers to monitor the sky in unprecedented detail and survey the entire sky much faster than any system currently in existence.
Cambridge receives £10 million in funding for new AI supercomputer
27 April 2018The UK’s fastest academic supercomputer, based at the University of Cambridge, will be made available to artificial intelligence (AI) technology companies from across the UK, in support of the government’s industrial strategy.
The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity
03 December 2015The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.
Masters of the universe
19 June 2015The ‘world’s largest IT project’ — a system with the power of one hundred million home computers — may help to unravel many of the mysteries of our universe: how it began, how it developed and whether humanity is alone in the cosmos.
Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe
16 January 2015Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns – form and shape the evolution of galaxies.
