CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS
NVIDIA
Cambridge-1 Inauguration The UK ’ s Most Powerful Supercomputer
“ There is nothing standard about the way we design and build at Kao Data ”
LEE MYALL CEO , KAO DATA
became one of the first data centre sites in Europe to obtain OCP-Ready status from the Open Compute Project . This , combined with the fact that the campus remains the UK Innovation Corridor ' s only NVIDIA DGX-Ready certified facility , makes Kao Data ’ s Harlow site uniquely positioned to “ deliver customised architectures for biocomputational analysis , quant and grid computing .”
One of the most prominent applications for HPC has been in the field of medicine
- something the COVID-19 crisis has only made more apparent . “ The pandemic has shown us that healthcare , like many other industries , is increasingly data and science-driven , both in terms of sequencing human genomes and identifying COVID- 19 variants , in vaccine and drug discovery , and in monitoring community spread and within Track and Trace ,” Myall explains . “ All these enormous datasets have to be stored safely , processed , analysed , and made available to a global community of scientific ,
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