AI Compute Facilities
An outline and mapping of our cross network resources towards developing state-of-the-art AI compute facilities. Driving innovation in creative technology and beyond.
This infrastructure is purpose-built to support training and prototyping of advanced AI systems—such as multimodal generative models for the creative industries—while also enabling research and development across academia, startups, and industry partners.
The CoSTAR National Lab is developing a state-of-the-art AI compute facility to drive innovation in creative technology and beyond.
Our pilot cluster is already operational, offering:
- 3 high-performance servers, each hosting 4 or 8 GPUs and up to 2TB of system memory
- 20 NVIDIA H200 GPUs, each with 141GB of next-generation high-bandwidth memory
- Ultra-fast NVMe storage, optimised for AI workloads
In 2026, we will expand to a full-scale cluster, delivering:
- 10 additional 8 way GPU servers, each designed for high-demand AI workloads
- 80 additional NVIDIA H200 GPUs bringing the system to more than 14TB of total GPU memory
- High-speed interconnects (400Gb InfiniBand) for large-scale, multi-node training
- 750TB of ultra-fast NVMe storage
- 2 high-performance multi-purpose compute units for virtualised and containerised workflows:
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7960X
- 2 NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB GPUs
- 128GB RAM
- 4TB NVMe storage
- NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dual 100GbE NIC
- Server equipped with 2× NVIDIA H100 GPUs (160 GB VRAM combined, 80GB each), 386 GB RAM, 19TB of NVMe storage, and AMD EPYC 9334 processors with 128 cores.
- Server equipped with Titan RTX 12GB VRAM and 2x NVIDIA 4080 GPUs with 8 GB VRAM each and 64 GB RAM
- Server equipped with 2x nvlinked RTX 6000 ADA with 48GB VRAM (96GB combined)
Workstation — Dell Precision Tower 7960
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Blackwell, 48GB
- 128GB RAM
- Intel Xeon CPU, 12 cores
- 2TB NVMe storage
- 16TB mechanical storage
Control and Render Node — AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7975WX
- 32 cores
- 256GB RAM
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada, 48GB
LED Volume Processing
- 2× Brompton Tessera SX40
Standalone PCs — 10× Dell Alienware
- NVIDIA RTX 4090
- Intel Core i9, 28 cores
- 64GB RAM
