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Atos partners with University of Oxford on largest AI supercomputer in the UK

Gordon B. Johnson 2 days ago

Paris and London, four August 2020

Atos, a global leader in electronic transformation, has signed a four-12 months contract well worth £5 million with the University of Oxford to produce a new, point out of the art, deep learning supercomputer created on the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ architecture, which will enable United kingdom teachers and industry to generate ahead scientific discoveries and innovation in device learning and artificial intelligence, as component of the JADE2 task.

The premier AI-focused supercomputer in the United kingdom with in excess of five hundred NVIDIA GPUs, this superior-general performance method is funded by the Engineering and

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UK tech stocks broadly sideways amid results activity

Gordon B. Johnson 7 days ago

British isles tech shares were boosted past week by good trading information from sector heavyweights, The Sage Team PLC (LON:SGE), Computercentre (LON:CCC) and Discovering Systems Team PLC (LON:LTG)

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Computercentre strike record highs immediately after it said that initially-fifty percent revenue were considerably in advance of the similar interval past calendar year, aided by a surge in demand for IT tools to enable property working. Sage jumped ten% more than the week, immediately after it documented a six.5% growth in Q3 recurring profits, with the selection supported by decrease-than-anticipated churn between its SME client foundation. Discovering Systems rose

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Google Announces Private New Subsea Cable Linking UK and US

Gordon B. Johnson 1 week ago

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“Google is not a telco and is not in the business of promoting capacity”

Google currently unveiled designs for a new non-public 6,three hundred subsea cable linking the United kingdom and US, with a branch to Spain — to be completed by 2022.

The “Grace Hopper” cable will be geared up with sixteen fibre pairs, which Google described as a “significant upgrade” to existing web infrastructure connecting the US with Europe. It will have a significant 340-350 Tbps capability.

Google dubbed it the initial significant new immediate website link amongst the US and United kingdom because 2003.

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UK Trade Decline is World’s Worst: Tradeshift Data

Gordon B. Johnson 3 weeks ago

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The United kingdom noticed the world’s steepest drop in trade action globally in Q2, new investigation of enterprise-to-enterprise transaction information published currently reveals.

Trade action plunged 23.1% in Q2 in the United kingdom, a report by Tradeshift — a electronic offer chain payments and market professional — emphasised, versus an ordinary 14.eight% drop globally (to some degree skewed by a substantial resurgence in China).

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Credit rating: Tradeshift

The firm procedures about $five hundred billion in transactions throughout its enterprise commerce platform each calendar year, for roughly 1.5 million potential buyers and suppliers who use Tradeshift to

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Burger King could shut one in 10 UK sites

Gordon B. Johnson 4 weeks ago

Burger King UK’s manager has warned that up to 1,600 work opportunities could be dropped as a outcome of the coronavirus pandemic.

Only about 370 of the cafe chain’s 530 British isles shops have reopened considering the fact that the country went into lockdown.

Chief govt Alasdair Murdoch informed the BBC’s Newscast the financial damage stemming from the disaster could eventually power the firm to permanently near up to 10pc of its shops.

He informed Newscast: “We will not want to eliminate any (work opportunities). We test really tricky not to, but one’s acquired to presume someplace in between 5pc

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