Baskerville Supercomputing Centre and the Institute for Data and AI (IDAI) are giving University of Birmingham users early access to the Baskerville National Compute Resource (NCR), from October 2026, as alpha and beta testers, before the machine is fully running from April 2027. The service is likely to be interrupted until final testing is complete.
The technical specification of the Baskerville NCR hardware is available here.
Please note the existing GPU provision available via the University’s supercomputer BlueBEAR, detailed here.
University of Birmingham researchers can apply for early access via the form here (closing date: Tuesday 1 September 2026).
Please direct any queries about the system to our user support: Dr Gavin Yearwood
Best wishes,
Andrew J Morris, Baskerville Supercomputing Centre
Paolo Missier, IDAI