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Traditionally, supercomputers are slow installations, taking years to plan and build, but the Cambridge-1 is already in operation at the Kao data centre just 20 weeks after its inception.
The speed of the installation is all the more impressive as it has been built amid a global pandemic and three separate lookdowns in the UK. The Kao data centre, which featured in this months
IT Pro 20/20, has been operating for the best part of the last year with mission-critical staff only, working in rotating shifts and under strict operational guidelines. On top of that, quarantine periods for international travel has resulted in most of the deployment being overseen remotely from the US.