AMD, Dell and Cambridge Uni go for SAIL

Hosted through the University of Cambridge Research Computing Service, SAIL is expected to serve as a collaborative environment where organizations can evaluate, develop and deploy advanced AI technologies. The lab will work alongside Cambridge’s growing national AI infrastructure footprint, including the Zenith AI supercomputer and the Sunrise fusion AI system.

SAIL serves as a hub where researchers, healthcare organizations, public-sector institutions and industry partners evaluate, develop and deploy advanced AI technologies. The lab supports applications across scientific research including healthcare, climate science, engineering, public services and national-scale AI initiatives.

SAIL is intended to work alongside the Sunrise fusion AI system developed by the University of Cambridge and UKAEA. Built on the same Cambridge-designed AMD and Dell architecture as Zenith, Sunrise will support fusion energy research and broader AI-for-science applications.

The announcement follows the expansion of the University of Cambridge’s AI Research Resource, including deployment of the Zenith AI supercomputer. Powered by 5th Gen AMD EPYC processors and AMD Instinct MI355X GPU accelerators integrated into Dell infrastructure, Zenith is designed to support increasingly complex AI, simulation and scientific workloads.

Dr. Lisa Su (pictured) Chair and CEO of AMD attended an event at Ray Dolby Centre to officially launch the Zenith AI supercomputer, UK’s largest AI-for-science platform powered by AMD EPYC processors and Instinct GPUs.