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Applications Consultant vacancies at EPCC

Do you want to join one of Europe’s premier high-performance computing centres? This full-time, permanent role offers hybrid working and is based at the Bayes Centre in central Edinburgh, UK.

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EPCC MSc students visit the Advanced Computing Facility

This year's cohort of students of our MSc programmes were invited to join a tour of the Advanced Computing Facility, learning about how we manage and support the systems we operate.

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Women in HPC session: “Diversity in Science”

Our Women in HPC session, co-located with the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science, will highlight the benefits of diversity to research. 

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Accelerating smoothed particle hydrodynamics with graph neural networks

Joe O’Connor joined EPCC as a University of Edinburgh Chancellor’s Fellow last year.

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Minister for Innovation visits EPCC

We were delighted to welcome Richard Lochhead MSP to the Advanced Computing Facility (ACF).

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EPCC Director Mark Parsons, Richard Lockhead Minister for Innovation, EPCC Deputy Director Ritchie Somerville at ACF

Building EPCC Safe Haven Services 2.0

In 2023 EPCC began building a new Trusted Research Environment to provide tenants of Safe Havens with more flexibility in the applications they can run on sensitive data. 

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ARCHER2 Celebration of Science

The upcoming ARCHER2 Celebration of Science will be a platform for researchers to showcase their science achievements on this UK national supercomputing service.

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Research collaboration: evaluating events data for cultural analytics

This innovative project by an interdisciplinary team from the universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews investigated how Covid-19 affected the cultural events sector in Edinburgh.

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Maintaining critical chiller plant at the Advanced Computing Facility

The Advanced Computing Facility houses the high performance computing services operated by EPCC, including ARCHER2 and the Edinburgh International Data Facility.

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Staff profile: Jaffery Irudayasamy

Jaffery joined EPCC after studying for his MSc in HPC with Data Science with us.

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A new programme of GPU software development eCSE calls

… And an opportunity for early-career researchers to observe a panel meeting.

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Faster large language model training with a Cerebras CS-2 Wafer-Scale Cluster

The Edinburgh International Data Facility, operated by EPCC, includes the Cerebras CS-2 service which was recently upgraded to add a second unit and also reconfigured into a Wafer-Scale Cluster.

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Find out more about key areas of EPCC's work

Research themes

We conduct research at the leading edge of High Performance Computing and Data Science.

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ARCHER2

ARCHER2 serves as the UK’s National High Performance Computing system and facilitates world-class science for UK researchers.

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Masters programmes

EPCC offers a suite of two linked Masters programmes.

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MSc Students 18-19

PhD Study

EPCC offers opportunities for doctoral (PhD) study in areas related to High Performance Computing, Computational Science, Data Science, Software Engineering & Sustainability, and Parallelism.

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Advanced Computing Facility

The Advanced Computing Facility is the High Performance Computing data centre of EPCC.

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ACF

On-demand HPC service

Direct, secure access to EPCC’s High Performance Computing platforms delivering the highest levels of performance

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