AMD, Dell and the University of Cambridge have announced plans to establish the Sovereign AI Innovation Lab (SAIL) designed to support AI research and development across the UK.
SAIL, hosted by the University of Cambridge’s Research Computing Service, has been designed as a collaborative hub focused on open and interoperable AI infrastructure built using AMD technologies. The aim is that researchers, public bodies, healthcare organisations and industry partners will be able to build, validate and scale trusted AI tools on sovereign infrastructure.
Coinciding with this announcement, the university also officially launched the Zenith AI supercomputer (above), the UK’s largest AI-for-science platform. Powered by 5th Generation AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI355X GPU accelerators integrated into Dell infrastructure, Zenith has been especially designed to offer advanced computing capabilities needed to support complex AI, simulation and scientific workloads.
In addition to Zenith, there...