Bede has had support extended to March 2026. It is currently unknown if the service will continue past that time. Please plan any use of the Bede HPC facility accordingly.
Newcastle is a member of the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR). Through this membership Newcastle researchers have access to a new GPU focused HPC machine.
Bede comprises of 32 IBM Power 9 dual-CPU nodes, each with 4 NVIDIA V100 GPUs and high-performance interconnect. This is the same architecture as the US government’s SUMMIT and SIERRA supercomputers which occupied the top two places in a recently published list of the world’s fastest supercomputers.
Bede is the first supercomputer in the UK to make use of IBM’s Power IC922 server; making use of 6 additional nodes with NVIDIA T4 Tensor Core GPU Accelerators to improve AI inference.
More information on Bede can be found on the N8 CIR website. If you want to make use of Bede's supercomputing capabilities, have a look at their documentation page and find out how to get support.
Local support at Newcastle University for Bede users is provided by the Research Software Engineering team.
The JADE2 national Tier 2 HPC GPU facility closed in late 2024. Further access is no longer possible.
JADE2 was an EPSRC-funded Tier 2 regional High-Performance Computing Cluster based on GPUs. It was intended to be used to support Artificial Intelligence Research only. The computing nodes were based on NVIDIA DGX MAX-Q Deep Learning System platform. The cluster had 63 servers, each containing 8 NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs linked by NVIDIA’s NV link interconnects technology. Newcastle University was a member of the consortium of institutions sharing this resource.
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