Industrial Metaverse essential for UK fusion energy development
Supercomputing, AI and the Industrial Metaverse will advance the development of UK fusion energy prototype powerplant.
Supercomputing, AI and the Industrial Metaverse will advance the development of the UK's prototype fusion powerplant
- Collaboration between the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge to advance the development of the UK바카라 사이트檚 prototype fusion powerplant
- Scientists and engineers will access supercomputers and AI to inform and accelerate engineering designs of the plant
- UKAEA plans to deliver STEP (Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production) to provide electricity to grid in the 2040s
The engineering designs of UKAEA바카라 사이트檚 prototype fusion energy plant, STEP, sited in Nottinghamshire, will be developed in a highly immersive and connected virtual environment, known as the 바카라 사이트業ndustrial Metaverse바카라 사이트�.
The collaboration between UKAEA, Dell Technologies, Intel and the University of Cambridge will explore how supercomputers 바카라 사이트� capable of making up to one quintillion calculations per second 바카라 사이트� and AI technologies with advanced predictive capabilities, can deliver a 바카라 사이트榙igital twin바카라 사이트� of the STEP design.
The digital twin will enable STEP바카라 사이트檚 scientists and engineers to create a robust design in the virtual world to ensure ecosystem readiness, value for money and to help STEP achieve its goal of delivering electricity to the grid in the 2040s.
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The goal of future fusion powerplants is to emit no greenhouse gases and they are not expected to have long-lived, high-level radioactive waste associated with nuclear fission.
Development of fusion energy presents one of the world바카라 사이트檚 most difficult scientific and engineering challenges. This includes the design of advanced materials that can withstand extreme conditions inside a fusion powerplant to confine a super-hot gas, known as plasma, to produce energy.
Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary, Grant Shapps, said:
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Dr Rob Akers, Director of Computing Programmes, UKAEA, said: 바카라 사이트淓xascale supercomputing, and the advent of the 바카라 사이트楢I era바카라 사이트� are essential and potentially transformative milestones that will help the UK to ensure STEP achieves its mission to connect fusion power to the national grid in the early 2040바카라 사이트檚. These powerful technologies will allow us to embed robustness, flexibility, and resilience into the STEP design.
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Adam Roe, EMEA HPC Technical Director, Intel, said: 바카라 사이트淧lanning for the commercialisation of fusion power requires organisations like UKAEA to utilise extreme amounts of computational resources and artificial intelligence for simulations. These HPC workloads may be performed using a variety of different architectures, which is why open software solutions that optimise performance needs can lend portability to code that isn바카라 사이트檛 available in closed, proprietary systems. Overall, advanced hardware and software can make the journey to commercial fusion power lower risk and accelerated 바카라 사이트� a key benefit on the path to sustainable energy.바카라 사이트�
Dr Paul Calleja, Director, Research Computing Services, University of Cambridge, said: 바카라 사이트淯KAEA바카라 사이트檚 moon-shot mission to put clean fusion energy on the UK grid in the 2040바카라 사이트檚 is a hugely ambitious goal, needing equally ambitious advance computing and AI technologies to fuel the virtual engineering effort to create a complete digital reality of the power plant that can be developed and tested in silicon, which greatly accelerates the process.聽To this end the Cambridge Open ZettaScale Lab in partnership with Intel, Dell, UKAEA and a team of HPC experts from across UKRI have been working together for the past two years on a world leading co-design activity called 바카라 사이트淧roject Dawn바카라 사이트� to design and prototype a candidate UK exascale class converged AI & simulation GPU/CPU supercomputer, with the computation power capable of helping UKAEA meet it its vast computational requirements. Project Dawn is closely aligned with the recommendations of the recent UK 바카라 사이트淔uture of Compute Review바카라 사이트� which is targeting over a billion pounds investment to develop the UK AI and Exascale computing ecosystem.바카라 사이트�
Tariq Hussain, Head of UK Public Sales, Dell Technologies, said: 바카라 사이트淲orking with world-class researchers at the UKAEA and Cambridge University to tackle one of the most complex engineering challenges requires world-class technology and digital infrastructure capable of meeting the most demanding workloads.
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