AI in High Performance Computing

Codeplay Software

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Edinburgh-based Codeplay is a specialist developer of software solutions for AI and supercomputers. This expertise is integral to creating the high levels of computing performance required to process ‘big data’ for the AI used in leading-edge applications such as self-driving cars and the scientific modelling of vaccines.

Surprisingly, many of the technologies used for AI and supercomputers today can be traced back to the videogames industry where huge amounts of processing power are required to create sophisticated graphics for today’s best-selling games. Codeplay has pioneered the use of these powerful graphics processors for other applications, for example in AI and science.

For example, Codeplay software is helping USA’s National Laboratories to build the next generation of supercomputers called ‘Exascale’. Computer chips from three different suppliers are being used to achieve this new milestone in performance and each of these chips is based on graphics technology from videogames and then supercharged to run complex scientific applications.

Codeplay is also developing software that enables car manufacturers to build self-driving vehicles that can monitor their surroundings, avoid hazards and make our roads safer. Building these systems requires the ability to convert high-performance graphics processors to specialist self-driving CPUs and deliver solutions that achieve optimal performance whilst being safe.