Academic lab lands 3M H100 hours plus £7M sponsored compute, a likely first
j_foerst · x · 2026-08-26
Researcher jfoerst disclosed his lab's compute for the first 18 months: 3 million H100 hours from a government grant plus £7M in announced sponsored compute. He says he is unaware of precedent for this amount of compute for an individual academic lab.
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