UK’s fastest supercomputer will be built in a car park in Bristol

The fastest ever supercomputer in the UK would be one of the five quickest computers in the world if finished now, but the tremendously powerful machine will have a humble home in a Bristol car park.

Isambard-AI was announced by the UK government in September with scant detail, but Simon McIntosh-Smith at the University of Bristol, UK, who is running the project to build it, says it will consist of…