UKRI Maps £38.6 Billion R&D Budget, £1 Billion for Quantum, Over 4 Years
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The UK Research and Innovation agency today announced it will invest its record four-year £38.6 billion allocation from government, incluging £1 billion for quantum computing R&D.The allocations explainer provides information on how UKRI funding will be invested across priority ‘buckets’ as set out by Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall and UKRI CEO Ian Chapman at the recent Innovation for Growth Summit.It also provides a breakdown of investment across the industrial strategy priority sectors. The priority ‘buckets’ are:The rest of UKRI’s £38.6 billion settlement will be used for foundational investments that cut across these three areas, including in skills and infrastructure.UKRI CEO Ian Chapman said: “We’re aligning our budget to a new single mission, to advance knowledge, improve lives, and drive UK growth. Over the next four years, we will scale research and innovation investment to almost £10bn per year and target world-leading areas with the strongest return for the UK. The Explainer published today sets out how we’ll be making choices in how we invest, by prioritising areas where the UK can be world-leading and by working closely with business.”Science and Technology Secretary Liz Kendall said: “There is no route to stronger growth without science, technology and innovation, so we must grasp the opportunities our world class researchers and innovators offer with both hands. By doing fewer things better and backing winning ideas, this round of record UKRI funding can help more promising UK businesses to scale up while homing in on projects which have the best chance of benefiting us all.”This explainer provides a breakdown of UKRI’s allocations for financial years 2026 to 2027 through to 2029 to 2030.The new outcome-focused approach to allocations means that it is not possible to directly compare these allocations to previous budgets or explainers, including comparisons with historic sector or research council investment levels.[SPONSORED GUEST ARTICLE] For years, InfiniBand has been the go-to networking technology for high-performance computing (HPC) and AI workloads due to its low latency and lossless transport. But as AI clusters grow to thousands of GPUs and demand open, scalable infrastructure, the industry is shifting. Leading AI infrastructure providers are increasingly moving ….This Reference Architecture highlights the key findings and demonstrated scalability when running SAS® 9.4 using the Mixed Analytics Workload running on HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage. These results demonstrate that the combination of the HPE Superdome Flex 280 Server and HPE Primera Storage with SAS 9.4 delivers up to 20GB/s of sustained throughput, up to a 2x performance improvement from the previous server and storage generation testing.Name *Email *Website Δ@HPCpodcast’s “Industry View” episodes take on major issues in advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we dig into the design and deployment of an upcoming leadership-class supercomputer for the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ) in Germany. This is the “Blue Lion” HPC system ….