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The Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence: delivering innovation and public benefit
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 5 Aug 2020 | 14:38
In June, a unique collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, the Financial Data and Technology Association, and Fintech Scotland was awarded £22.5m from UK Government to harness financial data for societal and economic benefit. The Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence (GOFCoE) will be an independent collaboration between governments and regulators, the financial services, industry and academia.
Service Portal for engineering excellence launched
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 4 Aug 2020 | 16:06
EPCC is a partner in the EXCELLERAT programme, which brings together key players from industry, research and HPC to provide services that will enable the European engineering industry to advance towards Exascale technologies.
There are great opportunities for engineering applications in exploiting Exascale computing. EXCELLERAT brings together expertise in HPC and engineering software to support the development of applications that can exploit computing capability at this level.
Edinburgh International Data Facility Summer 2020 update
Author: Rob BaxterPosted: 30 Jul 2020 | 11:44
Despite the challenges of COVID-19, work is proceeding on the development of the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) and the advanced computing facility that will host it.
The EIDF is the underpinning data infrastructure of the activities of the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Programme. It supports data and computing activities across all areas of the Programme and was, until February 2020, known by its original name of World Class Data Infrastructure (WCDI).
Supporting the national response to COVID-19
Author: Rob BaxterPosted: 29 Jul 2020 | 15:42
EPCC and the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) have been working with the NHS and Public Health Scotland to create a secure data and computing environment for urgent research in Scotland into COVID-19.
Advanced systems engineering for cybersecurity
Author: Kostas KavoussanakisPosted: 24 Jul 2020 | 16:26
EPCC has collaborated with Intel® and Illuminate Technologies to investigate innovative performance-enhancing, packet-processing approaches within the type of Cloud environment expected to be seen in 5G deployments.
First phase of ARCHER2 installed at Advanced Computing Facility
Author: Lorna SmithPosted: 15 Jul 2020 | 15:41
ARCHER2, the new UK national supercomputing service, is a world-class advanced computing resource for UK researchers. The service is due to commence later in 2020, replacing the current ARCHER service.
The four-cabinet Shasta Mountain system completed its journey from Cray’s Chippewa Falls factory in the US to EPCC’s Advanced Computing Facility in July. This is the first phase of the 23-cabinet system of ARCHER2, the UK’s next national supercomputing service.
First phase of ARCHER2 arrives in Edinburgh!
Author: Lorna SmithPosted: 13 Jul 2020 | 10:45
The four-cabinet Shasta Mountain system, the first phase of the 23-cabinet system, has completed its journey from Chippewa Falls in Wisconsin, making its way from Prestwick airport to Edinburgh this morning.
The arrival of these large crates has, I admit, generated quite a lot of excitement here. Moving these specialist systems and getting the right people here to install them is a logistical challenge at the best of times, but with the necessary Covid-19 restrictions this has been considerably more challenging than usual. We are really grateful to our colleagues at Cray/HPE for all their planning and perseverance! It is a huge step forward to see these systems on site. You will be reassured to know that all necessary safety precautions have been taken to meet Covid-19 guidance and to keep everyone safe.
ARCHER2: first four cabinets ship from the US
Author: Lorna SmithPosted: 7 Jul 2020 | 10:04
Covid-19 has created significant challenges for the delivery of the new ARCHER2 system. It is therefore really exciting to see the first 4 cabinets of ARCHER2 leave Cray/HPE’s factory in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin to begin their journey to Edinburgh.
ARCHER2 will replace the current ARCHER system, a Cray XC30, as the UK’s National HPC system. Once fully configured, this should provide an average of over 11 times the science throughput of ARCHER.
PhD opportunities at EPCC
Author: Nick BrownPosted: 29 Jun 2020 | 14:38
We currently have applications open for PhD students, starting late 2020/early 2021 depending upon their situation. Four of these have been advertised on findaphd, with the closing date at the end of the month.
In addition to our MSc programmes, EPCC also hosts a number of PhD students who are researching a diverse set of areas: from traditional performance optimisation for HPC, to new data science technologies and novel computing architectures. Supervised by EPCC members of staff and housed in the Bayes, not only do these students benefit from being part of the UK’s leading HPC centre, but they also have access to the wider University’s large range of resources.
VESTEC Project Poster at ISC 2020 digital conference
Author: Nick BrownPosted: 23 Jun 2020 | 15:10
This week ISC, one of the largest conferences in the supercomputing calendar, should have been running in Frankfurt. It’s a funny feeling because, as I type, I realise that if it wasn’t for COVID-19 then, instead of being stuck at home, I would have been busy navigating the Messe Frankfurt, going from one session to another.
