AIRR compute opportunity: AI open access
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England
Applications
Rolling (always open)
This grant provides free access to the Isambard-AI supercomputer for AI research projects. You can get between 50,000 and 1.4 million GPU hours for your artificial intelligence work. The grant is open to UK researchers and AI developers from universities, businesses, and public sector organisations. There is no cash funding, but you get valuable computer time instead. Applications appear to be on a rolling basis with no set deadline. You must be based in the UK to apply. This could save your organisation thousands of pounds in computing costs.
Who can apply:
Key requirements:
- Must be UK-based
- Must have AI research or development project
This is for UK-based researchers and AI developers working on artificial intelligence projects. You could be from a university, business, public sector organisation, or other groups. You need an AI research or development project that requires significant computing power.
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Apply for between 50,000 and 1,400,000 graphics processing unit (GPU) hours on the Isambard-AI supercomputer for artificial intelligence (AI) related research and development projects.Open to UK-based researchers and AI developers from academia, industry, public sector or other organisations.
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