Public outreach
ARCHER Image & Video Competition 2019: results!
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 13 Nov 2019 | 10:56
Thank you to everyone who submitted images and videos to this year's competition. The outstanding range of entries made judging a most enjoyable experience with so many great demonstrations of the important work being done using ARCHER.
New Scientist Live 2019
Author: Jane KennedyPosted: 6 Nov 2019 | 12:15
From 10–13 October, EPCC were exhibitors at New Scientist Live 2019. Various members of EPCC attended – as well as myself, there were Outreach regulars Gordon Gibb, Oliver Brown, Juan Rodriguez Herrera, and Ben Morse, as well as relative newbies Darren White, Spyro Nita, and Evgenij Belikov.
Fun and Games in Historic Melrose
Author: Lorna SmithPosted: 23 Oct 2019 | 14:48
Set in the heart of the Scottish Borders and home to Melrose Abbey and Melrose RFC, a visit to Melrose is always a pleasure. Organised by St Mary's School, Bang Goes the Borders (21st September 2019) is a science festival aimed at families. Entirely free, the festival has loads of workshops and drop in sessions. The ARCHER team and Wee Archie were sat alongside workshops and activities around lego robots, apple juice making, plaque busting, bees, birds, and much, much more.
Wee Archie production
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 27 Aug 2019 | 16:32
Caelen Feller, a PRACE Summer of HPC (SoHPC) student working with Wee Archie, gives us the final status report of his project. You can also read his original post.
ARCHER Image and Video Competition 2019
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 21 Aug 2019 | 09:56
We are pleased to announce the ARCHER Image and Video Competition 2019, and we invite all users of the national supercomputing service to share their images and videos on the theme of "ARCHER Enabling Research".
PRACE SoHPC: Wee Archie project overview
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 12 Aug 2019 | 11:02
Caelen Feller, a PRACE Summer of HPC (SoHPC) student working with Wee Archie, gives us an overview and status report of his project.
As I have said previously, I’m working with Wee ARCHIE, EPCC's mini supercomputer, this summer. Wee Archie is made of 16 Raspberry Pi chips – each very small, lightweight computers connected together to work as a single machine. With each chip is an attached LED panel, allowing me to display what is occurring on the chip and how it is communicating to other chips. I have created a series of tutorials and simple demonstrations to be run on Wee Archie which explain the basics of message passing using MPI to a complete novice in parallel computing and non-expert in computers in general.
ARCHER Training report Summer 2019
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 7 Aug 2019 | 15:59
ARCHER Training report Summer 2019
So, it's been another busy end to the academic year and summer training season for the ARCHER Training team.
Since June we have managed to cram in no less than twelve training courses, in locations from London to Leeds, and Oxford to EPCC here in Edinburgh.
PRACE Summer of HPC 2019
Author: Mario AntoniolettiPosted: 29 Jul 2019 | 14:55
PRACE Summer of HPC (SoHPC) offers summer placements at HPC centres across Europe to late-stage undergraduates and/or Masters students. Up to twenty top applicants from across Europe spend two months working on projects related to PRACE technical or industrial work. Here are the three SoHPC visitors who are collaborating on projects with EPCC staff.
Launch of EPCC’s Women in HPC UK chapter
Author: Lorna SmithPosted: 28 May 2019 | 13:58
Women in HPC (WHPC) was set up in 2013 to tackle the problem of diversity in HPC through research and education. EPCC initiated the WHPC programme and EPSRC supported the initiative. We were therefore very pleased to be accepted as one of the first WHPC chapters, developing a chapter that encompasses all of the UK. We held a successful launch event in May, with attendees from different organisation from across the UK.
Promoting Science on Computers to Schools - Workshop Event
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 16 Apr 2019 | 11:27
Funded by EXDCI-2, EPCC is organising a 2-day workshop in Edinburgh on 8-9 July 2019 to present ideas on how science and engineering can be supported from Raspberry Pis to large scale supercomputers. We are looking to investigate how to introduce these topics to school-age audiences including linking to existing school curricula. This will include examples of existing education materials and activities and looking ahead to current plans.