University of Manchester expands research computing with NVIDIA H200 nodes and 230 TB storage
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Author: Martin Wolstencroft
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The Research IT Platforms team at the University of Manchester, in partnership with Alces, expanded the Computational Shared Facility (CSF) in late 2025 by adding four 8-way NVIDIA H200 HGX compute nodes and 230 TB of high-performance storage. The upgrade was completed without disrupting existing CSF systems, enabling uninterrupted research work. The H200 GPUs were chosen for their impressive performance capabilities to accelerate research computing.
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