Welcome to techUK's Future of Compute Week 2022

Supercomputing is already being used in the UK to advance healthcare research, from medical imaging, genomics, and drug discovery. The below healthcare use case emphasises that, with the application of AI, supercomputing is invaluable for unlocking the value of data. Guest insight by Craig Rhodes EMEA Health and Life Science Industry Lead at NVIDIA for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The future of compute looks exciting, and you want to make decisions fast. Maybe quantum optimisation is ideal for your goals, or your next killer app will depend on a graph neural net. But you need data to go deep in the build process – and different compute means different data to what you already might have. Synthetic data can bridge the gap. Guest insight by Dr. Francis Woodhouse Technical director at the Smith Institute for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

From the world of Formula 1 through jet engine design to next generation drug discovery, the UK is a leader in high value, high skill industry sectors. While they all began by using the intuition of skilled practitioners – science and engineering as craft – High Performance Compute (HPC) is now central to continued success in these fields. Guest insight written by David Lecomber, Senior Director of HPC at ARM for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The future of supercomputing is in hybrid platforms, combining cutting-edge processing units to deliver unparalleled computing power at any scale. Guest insight by Jean-Pierre Panziera, Chief Technology Officer for High Performance Computing at Atos for techUK's #FutureofCompute 2022

High-performance and large-scale compute is a key part of the UK’s ambition to remain a world leader in science and innovation. HPC should be seen as nationally important, as essential to our economic future in an information age as steel was in the industrial age. Insight by Laura Foster, Head of Tech & Innovation at techUK for the #FutureofCompute Week 2022

On 28 September 2022, techUK launched a new supercomputing campaign - Is the UK ready for the Future of Compute?

From the HPC perspective, quantum computing should be used as an innovation accelerator. You should use it when there’s an opportunity for improvement in your calculations: time reduction, better accuracy, or other performance-related refinement. Insight by Michał Jankowski, Head of Emerging Technologies at Objectivity for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022.

Jim Scott, Head of Strategic Engagement at Lockheed Martin UK Strategic Systems, shares his views on a number of 21st century technologies - evolving from aspirational to becoming a reality. Insight for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week

Dr. Florian Neukart, Chief Product Officer and George Gesek, CTO, QMware discuss Quantum and he relationship with Cloud, AI, HPC as part of techUK's Quantum Commercialisation Week #QuantumUK

Insight by Allison Schwartz, D-Wave VP Global Government Relations & Public Affairs for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week

The UK has a strong tradition of research and innovation, a capability that will help drive advances in the application of high-end computing and AI. While the US, China, and EU have larger budgets for supercomputing, the UK can differentiate by leveraging its strong academic and research base to address specific challenges in science, engineering and business by applying novel heterogeneous computing techniques. Insight by Vasilis Kapsalis, Northern EMEA Sales Leader at SambaNova Systems for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Neuromorphic computing is an emerging field with memory technologies at the heart of this. These new technologies might just push forward the future of compute. Insight by Dr Aidong Xu, Head of Semiconductor Capability, Cambridge Consultants for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week

Rob Leeman from arm writes about how their digital apprenticeships and what that means for developing skilled HPC professionals in the UK for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Developing the required number of skilled professionals in the UK’s Compute workforce remains a challenge, how do we solve this? Insight by Ben Scott Principal at Net Company for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

As temperatures increase, so must we adapt quickly to ensure sustainability in our data centre and HPC environments for now and the future. Mischa Van Kesteren, Sustainability Lead at OCF writes for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The HPC field draws upon skills from a vast set of domains. Demand for specialist skills has grown with every new technology and with the acceleration of HPC adoption in the enterprise. So how to we develop HPC skills for the future? Insight by Per Nyberg, Chief Commercial Officer at Orca Computing for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Dr Andrew Rogoyski – Innovation Director in the Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI shares the academic perspective of the HPC and AI skills gap in the UK, as part of techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

As UK organisations continue to grow their high performance computing, it’s imperative to ensure they are optimising it for efficiency, and whenever possible, utilising renewable power to drive their innovation. Insight by Tate Cantrell, CTO at Verne Global for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Data centres will fuel the future digital economy, making sustainability a key consideration for operators.

Guest blog: Sreeram Visvanathan, Chief Executive of IBM UK and Ireland, exposes a worrying shortfall in skills required for a career in AI.

techUK's Farzana Chowdhury writes about how government, industry and academia need to work together to ensure that opportunities within HPC are joined up. For techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

On 9 November, techUK hosted a virtual roundtable exploring the UK and Japanese approaches to building compute infrastructures, and explore R&D and industry collaboration opportunities

There is a strong alignment between Japan and the UK on goals around Net-Zero and scientific advancement for economic and strategic advantage. This can push forward the Future of Compute. Insight by Dr David Snelling, Fujitsu for techUK's #FutureofCmpute Week 2022

Professor Tom Rodden, Chief Scientific Adviser for DCMS, explores the international dimension of advanced computing and its global impact for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

If leaders are to harness the power and potential of technology for the good of people everywhere, having a clear grasp of the realities and possibilities of compute access is instrumental to maximising its opportunity for all. Insight by Tom Westgarth and Melanie Garson for techUK's #FutureofCOmpute Week 2022

In his role as Quantum Strategist at CSC, Mikael Johansson explores and enables the uptake of quantum technology in research and development.

Rob Elder from Bulk explores how international partnerships can help the UK hit its sustainability targets as part of techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The secret to unlocking the power of quantum computing by using AI, HPC and machine learning lies in culture writes Brett St Clair from Teraflow for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

John Taylor from StackHPC explores how cloud can open access to HPC systems as part of techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Adrian Bradley and Davide Gorini from KPMG explore how cloud has opened access to HPC for SMEs. But for businesses to get access to HPC this way, they first need to get their cloud infrastructure right too for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The truth is that the benefits of IoT and big data will only come to fruition if businesses can run analytics that – with the growth of data – have become too complex and time critical for many enterprise servers to handle efficiently. The answer: high-performance computing (HPC) and a data centre partner who can really deliver. Insight by David Watkins from Virtus Data Centres as part of techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

The UK is currently one of the few major countries without a 10-year plan for large scale compute and with no globally competitive HPC or AI infrastructure having yet been announced. However, with the publication of the UK strategy imminent, the UK is poised to benefit from second-mover advantage. Insight by Alison Kennedy for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022

Deploying HPC services is sufficiently daunting to ensure that many potential users, both from industry and other areas of academia, are put off from even considering the adoption of large-scale computing. This needs to change, but how? Insight by Professor Mark Wilkinson from DiRAC, for techUK's #FutureofCompute Week 2022.