{"id":139580,"date":"2025-05-28T20:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139580\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T20:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T20:19:12","slug":"uk-joins-uk-eu-supercomputer-collaboration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139580\/","title":{"rendered":"UK joins UK-EU supercomputer collaboration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public sector research organisations can bid to become UK link to supercomputers<\/p>\n

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UK public sector invited to host UK\u2019s \u2018AI Factory Antenna\u2019 for pan-European research via the continent\u2019s supercomputer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public sector organisations in the UK can now apply to host an \u201cAI Factory Antenna\u201d, part of an EU-wide scheme to provide the compute power for projects requiring intense number crunching from Europe\u2019s most powerful supercomputers.<\/p>\n

The UK joined the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) in May 2024, just before the last election, giving UK researchers free access to EuroHPC\u2019s supercomputers via the UK\u2019s association with the \u20ac95.5 billion Horizon Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The government is now calling on public sector organisations to apply<\/a> to host the British arm of this EU-wide scheme. The intention is that the pooling of researchers and compute power will help them develop solutions to global challenges, such as overcoming disease, and helping to develop advanced AI systems for use in healthcare and energy.<\/p>\n

Applicants will be eligible for funding from UK Research & Innovation.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy strengthening our partnership with Europe, we\u2019re giving British innovators the compute power to solve climate and health challenges, grow the economy, and deliver our Plan for Change,\u201d said Feryal Clark, the minister for AI.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cThis is about more than faster processing \u2013 it\u2019s about putting the UK at the forefront of global AI. With access to some of Europe\u2019s most advanced systems, our researchers and startups will be equipped to lead on cutting-edge breakthroughs and strengthen Britain\u2019s role as a trusted partner in international AI development.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Williams, a partner in Clyde & Co\u2019s technology practice, explained how this fits with wider government policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe is a further sign of the UK government\u2019s commitment to deliver on the recommendations set out in the AI Opportunities Action Plan,\u201d he told Computing.<\/p>\n

\u201cAccess to these increasingly powerful AI models will make a substantial contribution to shortening development cycles which the government understands is key to \u2018putting the UK at the forefront of global AI\u2019 and is another sign that the UK is looking to collaborate with its European neighbours.<\/p>\n

\u201cEqually, this runs alongside the billions of pounds worth of investment that is being ploughed into UK-based data centres. The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology\u2019s announcement underscores the government\u2019s objective for the UK to be at the centre of global technological innovation. This will be very encouraging for the UK tech sector,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The initiative announced today follows on from the agreement between the UK and EU negotiated earlier this month. The EU, meanwhile, is keen to build a \u201csovereign technology stack\u201d<\/a> in a bid to become less dependent on technology developed and\/or made in the US and China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Public sector research organisations can bid to become UK link to supercomputers UK public sector invited to host…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3164],"tags":[1942,3284,1699,1234,14006,28426,53,16,10788,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-139580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-computing","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-government","12":"tag-horizon-europe","13":"tag-supercomputing","14":"tag-technology","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-uk-government","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114587314820835747","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}