Goonhilly opens new data
centre with green HPC platform
S
atellite communications innovator
and space gateway Goonhilly Earth
Station has opened its new data
centre and flexed its eco credentials by
launching a managed green HPC platform
for AI and ML compute on demand.
requirements of 500KW and local wind
power will be added to the mix shortly. demand, customers can reduce the cost of
deployment and accelerate time to market.
Goonhilly’s goal is to create a UK hub
for AI and ML services that acts as a
marketplace and allows academia and
enterprise to collaborate and share ideas. Further extending its AI capabilities,
Goonhilly has joined the NVIDIA
Inception programme for businesses
that are transforming industries through
advancements in AI and data sciences.
The new managed platform delivers high
performance GPU-based compute and
storage for decentralised and centralised
AI and Machine Learning applications
to meet the data-intensive needs of the
automotive, life sciences and space/
aerospace marketplaces.
Its onsite array of solar panels can also
support the data centre’s full power By provisioning both compute and AI
and Machine Learning resources on
Goonhilly will use the NVIDIA DGX-1, the
world’s first supercomputer purpose-built
for enterprise AI and Deep Learning.
Because Goonhilly’s tier 3/4 data centre
sits at the junction of global subsea
cables, satellite feeds and fibre, customers
can analyse data at the edge, eliminating
the cost of a leased line to send huge data
One of the first organisations in the UK to
deploy a liquid immersion cooling system
from Submer to mitigate the power
demands of high performance computing
(HPC), Goonhilly’s green platform is
designed to meet the data-intensive needs
of the automotive, life sciences and space/
aerospace marketplaces.
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