News

Category

'Step-change' for UK's digital horsepower

A major new compute investment could accelerate the progress of astronomers exploring the mysteries of the universe, chemists searching for cancer-killing drugs, and historians analysing archives.

View more
University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, Deputy Director of Stakeholder Relations, Lynn McMath, and EPCC Director, Professor Mark Parsons at the Cirrus supercomputer.

Understanding weather and climate dynamics using high-resolution global cloud resolving models

EPCC's Evgenij Belikov writes about the challenges of refining the resolutions of global cloud resolving models, a key component for advancing understanding of atmospheric physics and dynamics at t

View more
Clouds by Eberhard Grossgasteiger via pexels.com

Opening a real-time window to our vast and ever-changing skies

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues its first live alerts of changes detected in the night sky, a UK innovation is allowing us to observe millions of astronomical events as they unfold.

View more
The open star cluster Bochum 14 as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026: programme now available!

Taking place from 19-20 March 2026 in Edinburgh, this annual event will bring the ARCHER2 user community together again to celebrate their impactful scientific achievements on the UK National Super

View more
Montage promoting Celebration of Science event, 19-20 March 2026

UKRI-funded Metascience Fellow to rethink AI and wicked problems

In January Batool Almarzouq joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute as a UKRI-funded AI Metascience Fellow.

View more
Batool Almarzouq

2026 EPCC Summer School in High Performance Computing: apply now!

This two-week residential programme in High Performance Computing (HPC) in Edinburgh will comprise hands-on practical training and the opportunity to apply new skills in a real-world context. 

View more
Students of the 2024 EPCC HPC Summer School

Global network puts spotlight on quantum software

Scientists from around the world have come together to form the Quantum Software Alliance, highlighting the critical role that quantum software and applications will play as quantum computing enter

View more
Quantum Software Alliance logo

Research Software Maintenance Fund: information webinars

The Software Sustainabaility Institute will host two free online webinars to support applicants, share information and answer questions related to the Research Software Maintenance Fund Round 2.

View more
RSMF graphic

Workshop: Green software use on HPC

This workshop introduces environmental sustainability principles in the context of high performance computing systems.

View more
Wind turbines against blue sky by Jan van der Wolf via Pexels

Raising programmer productivity for stencil-based workloads on Cerebras WSE

Research to be published at ASPLOS’26 demonstrates the potential benefits of Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine architecture for scientific computing.

View more
Cerebras CS-2 close up