Leading UK university’s new system delivers more compute performance for scientific research while reducing environmental footprint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At ISC 2025 in Hamburg, Germany, Intel announced plans for the new HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London, which is built on Lenovo servers and powered by Intel Xeon 6 processors with Performance-cores (P-cores).\u00a0The water-cooled system, designed as part of the co-investment\u00a0ICICLE\u00a0collaboration, will be deployed this year, delivering a performance boost for the next generation of high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a great win for Intel due in part to Xeon 6\u2019s strong performance for bandwidth-bound AI and HPC workloads. The deployment of the HX2 supercomputer at Imperial College London marks a significant milestone in our commitment to advancing scientific research and promoting sustainability. We are proud to help tackle global challenges like climate and healthcare, all while lowering the total cost of ownership and environmental impact,<\/em>\u201d commented Karin Eibschitz Segal<\/strong>, Intel corporate vice president and interim general manager of the Data Center Group<\/p>\n\n\n\n The HX2 supercomputer equips Imperial\u2019s academics and students to accelerate their research and position themselves for careers in HPC\/AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Imperial investment of 10 million pounds for HX2 has ensured that we can provide, in collaboration with Intel and Lenovo, a high-quality, future-proof compute platform for our researchers,\u201d <\/em>said Andrew Richards<\/strong>, director of Research Computing Services (RCS) at Imperial. \u201cWe have been able to accelerate our HPC refresh using the latest sustainable platform and enable our academics to accelerate their research.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Kelly Zhang<\/strong>, lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial, said: \u201cMy research group is using both CPUs and GPUs for jobs for developing decision-making algorithms for healthcare settings. Specifically, many are working with the ICU electronic health record dataset MIMIC.\u00a0I\u2019m excited to see what HX2 can offer for my group\u2019s workloads. Having such a powerful yet sustainable cluster is such a privilege.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The HX2 system will be available as part of Imperial College London\u2019s central Research Computing Service. It will support the next generation of researchers across all faculties (engineering, natural sciences, medicine, business, and others) and provide them access to long-term groundwork, emerging technology, and gender-balance initiatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhy It Matters<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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