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PlanetHPC: A Strategy for Research and Innovation through HPC
PlanetHPC has published its report on the future use of HPC for research and innovation in Europe, with recommendations that carry the endorsement of leading industrial and academic experts in the HPC field.
Read A Strategy for Research and Innovation through HPC.
Read the complete news article PlanetHPC: A Strategy for Research and Innovation through HPC.
SPRINT training course: user-friendly statistical analysis using HECToR, the UK’s most powerful supercomputer
SPRINT (Simple Parallel R INTerface) provides easy access to high performance computing (HPC) for the analysis of high-throughput, post-genomic data using the statistical programming language R. The first ever SPRINT training course will be run at NAG Oxford on December 1st 2011. The course aims to give a general overview of the hardware, software and […]
Europe and Russia work together to improve exascale supercomputing
The two-year APOS project will address the programmability challenges of HPC applications in strategically-important areas including energy prospecting, seismic modelling, CFD and nanotechnology.
Faster computers do not immediately lead to better results. Incompatibility between the requirements of existing software and the capabilities of new supercomputers is a growing problem that will be addressed by a pioneering […]
Read the complete news article Europe and Russia work together to improve exascale supercomputing.
PhD studentship at EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
PhD studentship at EPCC, The University of Edinburgh
EPCC (www.epcc.ed.ac.uk) is the supercomputer centre at the University of Edinburgh, and one of the leading High Performance Computing (HPC) centres in Europe. This PhD studentship is funded and co-supervised by AWE (www.awe.co.uk). Owing to the nature of the work done at AWE only British Nationals are eligible […]
Read the complete news article PhD studentship at EPCC, The University of Edinburgh.
Rare event simulation wins funding support
An illustration of the Forward Flux Sampling method. The method pushes the system from the initial (A) state to the final (B) state by firing trajectories from a series of intermediate interfaces.
A team of researchers from EPCC and the Institute of Condensed Matter and Complex Systems has been awarded £297,000 by EPSRC to develop […]
Read the complete news article Rare event simulation wins funding support.
Our new HECToR iPhone app - available now!
HECToR User is a free app developed by EPCC for current users of the HECToR supercomputing service. It enables iPhone users to:
Check the current status of the HECToR service.
Monitor the running and queuing of jobs.
Receive notifications when their jobs begin or end.
Visualise currently running jobs to see how busy HECToR is.
The app was developed as […]
Read the complete news article Our new HECToR iPhone app - available now!.
MSc in HPC: Virtual Open Days
Register now for the next Open Days: 28 March and 6 April.
The MSc in HPC Virtual Open Days are live, online interactive sessions where you will meet course staff in chat rooms and virtual spaces. You do not need to attend the University campus, as these events are hosted online.
The next MSc in HPC Virtual […]
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OGSA-DAI: world-class data management tool gets even better
The OGSA-DAI project, led by EPCC, has released version 4.1 of its database access, integration and processing software.
OGSA-DAI is a customisable framework for the management of distributed data resources (databases, files or other types of data) via web services. OGSA-DAI provides a workflow engine for the execution of data access, update, transformation, federation, processing and […]
Read the complete news article OGSA-DAI: world-class data management tool gets even better.
EPCC visitor programmes: creating a lasting impact on research careers
By Catherine Inglis
EPCC has been running European visitor programmes for most of its 20-year history, first through TRACS (1993-2003) and then HPC-Europa (2004-2012). We have supported more than 750 collaborative visits from a total of 28 European countries, with visits hosted by over 100 researchers from 23 UK institutes.
Visits often lead to long-term collaborations, […]
EPCC at SC’10
EPCC is looking forward to a busy SC this year. Our Birds-Of-A-Feather and poster sessions will consider high performance workflows and data intensive research, including: the DEISA Benchmark Suite; enabling applications on the PRACE prototypes and GPU acceleration of scientific applications.
We’re also running a couple of tutorials, on OpenMP and Parallel Programming with Coarray Fortran. […]
Cray Workshop: Hybrid Manycore Programming and Accelerators in High Performance Computing
The workshop will consider the challenges of programming new architectures in High Performance Computing with particular emphasis on utilization of accelerated and many-core nodes.
The main content of the workshop will be delivered by John Levesque, Director Cray Supercomputing Center of Excellence.
This workshop forms part of a collaborative project between EPCC’s Exascale Technology Centre and Cray’s […]
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2010
DEISA, (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) and PRACE
(Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe) are holding their joint annual science
symposium from May 10 - May 12 in Barcelona, Spain.
For more information, including a list of speakers and registration details,
please visit:
http://www.deisa.eu/news_press/symposium/barcelona2010/deisa-symposium-barcelona-may-10-12-2010
£4.2 million grant ensures a sustainable future for software
Software was highlighted as a key facility needed for high quality research by a recent Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) consultation. A sustained future for this valuable resource has now been assured thanks to a £4.2 million grant from EPSRC, which will establish the UK’s Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).
EPCC at the University of […]
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6th DECI Call for Proposals now open
DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Call for Proposals now open.
Submission Deadline: 16th February 2010
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, or DECI, is an excellent way to gain access to a large amount of HPC cycles, for projects which are too large to run on a single National Resource.
Last year’s call saw eight UK DECI […]
Read the complete news article 6th DECI Call for Proposals now open.
EPCC and Cray launch Exascale Technology Centre
The University of Edinburgh is to join Cray’s Exascale Research Initiative with the creation of its Exascale Technology Centre at EPCC, the supercomputing centre at The University of Edinburgh. Today’s Cray supercomputers can perform over a Petaflop of calculations per second on real scientific applications. That is a thousand million million calculations per second. An […]
Read the complete news article EPCC and Cray launch Exascale Technology Centre.
SPRINT - parallel statistics using R
Gene analysis is becoming increasingly complex and can be greatly enhanced by exploiting
the power of high-performance computing (HPC), but the software can be difficult for
researchers to use. To allow greater access to the benefits of HPC, EPCC and the Division
of Pathway Medicine at the University of Edinburgh developed a prototype framework called
SPRINT, which allows biostatisticians […]
Read the complete news article SPRINT - parallel statistics using R.
Registration now open for training course: Exploiting Multicore Processors
Registration for the course Exploiting Multicore Processors: Challenges and Programming Models which will run from 8-10 September is now open. For further details please see the Training and Education Section.
EPCC at ISC 2009
23-26 June, Hamburg, Germany
EPCC will exhibit in booth 736. Come and visit us!
EPCC Birds-of-a-feather session:
DEISA & HPC-Europa: EU Support for HPC Users
11:00-11:40am, BoF Session 13, Hall C2.2
The European Commission is a strong supporter of HPC in Europe. Two projects which directly focus on the current needs of HPC users are DEISA and HPC-Europa, both receiving […]
Welcome to the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009
DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, decided to merge their annual scientific symposia into one big
European HPC event: The DEISA PRACE Symposium.
The DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009 will take place from May 11 to May 13 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands at the Royal Tropical Institute […]
Read the complete news article Welcome to the DEISA PRACE Symposium 2009.
OMII-UK to be a mentor in the Google Summer of Code Programme
For the second year running, OMII-UK will mentor student participants in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) programme.
GSoC provides students all over the world with a stipend to spend three months of their summertime writing code for open source projects. In this way, Google provides support for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) projects by […]
Read the complete news article OMII-UK to be a mentor in the Google Summer of Code Programme.
Call for Proposals for the 5th DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative. Submission Deadline: 4th May 2009
The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative, or DECI, is an excellent way to gain access to a large amount of HPC cycles, for projects which are too large to run on a single National Resource.
Last year’s call saw five UK DECI projects granted a total of over 5.8 million hours on a variety of platforms spread […]
EPCC Spring Training Courses - Now open to all UK academics
EPCC will be running a series of courses in various aspects of High Performance Computing during April, May and June.
These courses are open to anyone from any UK university. In addition, members of the EUFORIA project (and researchers in Fusion Science) from anywhere in Europe, and to visitors to EPCC through the HPC-Europa project are […]
Read the complete news article EPCC Spring Training Courses - Now open to all UK academics.
OGSA-DAI 3.1 released
OGSA-DAI 3.1 released
The OGSA-DAI project, a partner in OMII-UK, have released version 3.1 of their database access and integration software.
OGSA-DAI is an extensible framework for the access and management of distributed heterogeneous data resources - whether these be databases, files or other types of data - via web services. OGSA-DAI provides a workflow engine for […]
DECI Awards 2009
DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative Awards 2009 on AlphaGalileo
Forty two scientific projects have recently been awarded supercomputing resources through DEISA, the EU’s unique infrastructure of supercomputing systems. The awards, totalling more than 49 million processor hours, collectively comprise the largest amount of supercomputing resources ever allocated at a pan-European project call.
Read more:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=534422
BEinGRID – bridging the chasm
BEinGRID is much more than your typical research project. For starters it’s huge. BEinGRID is the largest information and communication technology (ICT) project ever financed by the European Commission. It has close to 100 partners and a budget of more than €24 million over 42 months. But that’s just numbers. What really makes BEinGRID stand […]
Read the complete news article BEinGRID – bridging the chasm.
HPC Europa 2 Call for applicants
HPC-Europa is a multi-disciplinary visitor programme which funds visits to research groups associated with seven European HPC centres, BSC, CINECA, CSC, EPCC, GENCI, HLRS and SARA.
The next deadline for submitting applications is 28 February 2009.
For more information and to apply on-line go to:
http://www.hpc-europa.eu/
Read the complete news article HPC Europa 2 Call for applicants.
Grid Computing Now! Competition 2008
Grid Computing Now! is pleased to announce its second competition for applying innovative grid computing solutions to an environmental problem. The competition is supported by the British Computer Society, The 451 Group, Intellect, Memset, Microsoft, National e-Science Centre, Oxford e-Research Centre, the Technology Strategy Board and WWF.
See http://grid.globalwatchonline.com/epicentric_portal/site/GRID/competition2008.html/ for details.
Read the complete news article Grid Computing Now! Competition 2008.
OGSA-DQP 3.2 for OGSA-DAI 3.0 Released
OGSA-DQP is a middleware prototype which supports Distributed Query Processing over OGSA-DAI data resources.
This 3.2 release of OGSA-DQP is implemented on top of OGSA-DAI 3.0 and consists of the following components:
The OGSA-DQP Coordinator - a set of OGSA-DAI resources and activities that take the user query and compile, optimise, partition and schedule distributed query execution […]
Read the complete news article OGSA-DQP 3.2 for OGSA-DAI 3.0 Released.
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008: Registration Now Available
‘Crossing Boundaries: Computational Science, E-Science and Global E-Infrastructures’
8th - 11th September 2008
Edinburgh, Scotland
http://www.allhands.org.uk
**REGISTRATION IS OPEN**
Early-Bird Registration closes 31st July 2008
Meeting-only Registration closes 24th August 2008
General Information:
This is the principal e-Science meeting in the UK and brings together researchers from all disciplines, computer scientists
and developers to meet and exchange ideas. The […]
Read the complete news article UK e-Science All Hands Meeting 2008: Registration Now Available.
HPCwire: DEISA2 Aims for Integrated European HPC Ecosystem
HPCwire features a DEISA press-release, DEISA2 Aims for Integrated European HPC Ecosystem.
Read the complete news article HPCwire: DEISA2 Aims for Integrated European HPC Ecosystem.
OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX 1.0 released
The OGSA-DAI project team have released OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX 1.0. OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX provides an implementation of the OGF DAIS Working Group WS-DAIX specifications. It was built using OGSA-DAI 3.0 but is a stand-alone product and requires only Apache Tomcat and the Exist XML database to be used.
For further information please see the downloads page at:
http://www.ogsadai.org.uk/downloads or […]
Read the complete news article OGSA-DAI WS-DAIX 1.0 released.
Feature: Distributed Grid storage for scientists
EPCC is working with a cell biology group at the University of Oxford to manage the distribution and storage of data across several UK universities.
The study of cell biology increasingly depends on the use of very large, high definition images produced by high performance microscopes. The Ilan Davis Research Group at the University of Oxford, […]
Read the complete news article Feature: Distributed Grid storage for scientists.
Demonstrating Grid for Business: BEinGRID Industry Days
June 3-5, 2008, Barcelona, Spain
Co-located with OGF23 and OGF-Europe
http://www.beingrid.eu/beingridindustrydays.html
Grid Solutions for YOUR Business
This major event is addressed to Grid experts and those interested in learning how Grid is THE solution for their business.
The BEinGRID Industry Days will demonstrate real-world applications of Grid in a wide range of sectors including finance, supply chain management, media, leisure […]
Read the complete news article Demonstrating Grid for Business: BEinGRID Industry Days.
DEISA Training in Stuttgart, Germany
March 5-7, 2008
Registration closes: 24 Feb
http://www.deisa.eu/training
The sixth DEISA training session will be held at High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany on March 5 - 7, 2008.
Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are invited to attend. The purpose of the training is to enable fast development […]
Read the complete news article DEISA Training in Stuttgart, Germany.
DEISA Symposium: Advancing Extreme Computing in Europe
Edinburgh, UK
28-29 April, 2008
DEISA is a European research infrastructure resulting from the integration of national High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms. This integration of national resources - using modern grid technologies - contributes to both the significant enhancement of HPC capability and capacity in Europe and to European scientific achievements.
Indeed, DEISA is structured as a layer […]
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Feature: FHPCA Visiting Academic Programme
The FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance (FHPCA) is an alliance of key players in the technology fields of high-performance computing and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
Led by EPCC, the FHPCA is developing high-performance computing solutions using FPGAs to deliver new levels of performance into the technical computing market.
Hardware and software developed by the FHPCA have […]
Read the complete news article Feature: FHPCA Visiting Academic Programme.
Scottish supercomputer wins medal at the British Computer Society IT Awards
A unique supercomputer called ‘Maxwell’ – built in Scotland by the FHPCA with the support of Scottish Enterprise – has been recognised at this year’s prestigious British Computer Society IT Industry Awards in London.
Nominated in two categories, the FHPCA (FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance) came home with a medal having been placed runner-up for the […]
Duke of York visits the ACF
In his role as Special Representative for International Trade and Investment, His Royal Highness The Duke of York visited HECToR and the University of Edinburgh’s Advanced Computing Facility.
The Duke of York with Professor Arthur Trew, Director of EPCC.
A presentation was given to the Duke explaining the science that will be made possible by HECToR and […]
DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative awards 2008
Oct. 31 — Europe’s HPC infrastructure DEISA has announced that 45 projects were awarded a total of about 30 million hours of computing time on Europe’s most powerful supercomputers as part of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative.
The DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications) EU funded Research Infrastructure is constituted of a number of leading […]
Read the complete news article DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative awards 2008.
Feature: Investigating bird ‘flu
EPCC is working with evolutionary biologists to understand why H5N1-type avian ‘flu can be so deadly.
All influenza derives from wild species of waterfowl in which a very large number of different strains can be found. Three of these strains, called H1N1, H2N2 and H3N2 were responsible for human pandemics in the 20th century. The first, […]
Read the complete news article Feature: Investigating bird ‘flu.
OpenMP 3.0 draft available
21 October 2007
The OpenMP ARB is pleased to announce the release of a draft of Version 3.0 of the OpenMP specification for public comment. This is the first update to the OpenMP specification since 2005.
This release adds several new features to the OpenMP specification, including:
Tasking: move beyond loops with generalized tasks and support complex and […]
John Fisher 1945-2007
John Fisher
1945-2007
EPCC User Support
I am very sad to announce that John Fisher died suddenly on Thursday 27th September 2007. As well as being a colleague for more than 13 years, I am proud to call John my friend. His death will sadden all those who knew him throughout the UK computational science community but most […]
Fifth DEISA Training Session, Bologna, Italy, 29th-31st October, 2007
Fifth DEISA Training Session
Bologna, Italy,
29th-31st October, 2007.
Registration closes: 8th October.
Gavin J. Pringle
The 5th DEISA Training Session will be held at CINECA, Bologna, Italy, in October, 2007. The registration for this event will open early September. Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are all invited to attend.
The […]
Feature: OGSA-DAI 3.0 released
A completely redesigned and rewritten version of the database access and integration software has been released.
Imagine a census database, containing myriad facts such as the price of a loaf of bread or the number of cancer deaths within various regions of the UK. This database could be used to answer questions such as ‘How many […]
Read the complete news article Feature: OGSA-DAI 3.0 released.
Feature: Computing Circadian Rhythms
EPCC is working with biologists to investigate the mechanisms behind biological clocks.
Many different organisms – bacteria, plants, animals – use an internal clock to regulate aspects of their behaviour to occur at certain times of the day or night. These are circadian rhythms: examples include sleep in humans and photosynthesis in plants. Such circadian rhythms […]
Read the complete news article Feature: Computing Circadian Rhythms.
HPC-Europa: Application deadline and User Group Meeting review
HPC-Europa is a multi-disciplinary programme which funds visits to research groups associated with six European high-performance computing centres, in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bologna, Edinburgh, Paris and Stuttgart.
The next closing date for applications is 31 August 2007. This is the final call under the current contract.
HPC-Europa User Group Meeting, University of Bologna, Italy 14-15 June 2007
The […]
Read the complete news article HPC-Europa: Application deadline and User Group Meeting review.
MSc in HPC - Funded places available for Scottish and EU students
There are still a limited number of places available for EPCC’s MSc in High Performance Computing for 2007/08. Through the SAAS’s Postgraduate Students Allowances Scheme (PSAS), we are able to offer several funded places to Scottish domiciled students and students from the EU studying at an institution in Scotland.
For more information see www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/msc and www.student-support-saas.gov.uk/postgraduate.htm.
Apply […]
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The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative: Call for Proposals 2007
The purpose of the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (DECI) is to
enhance the impact of the DEISA research infrastructure on leading
European science and technology.
This initiative consists of the identification, enabling, deploying
and operating flagship applications from different areas of science
and technology.
These leading, ground breaking applications must deal with complex,
demanding, innovative simulations that would not be possible without
the […]
Read the complete news article The DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative: Call for Proposals 2007.
DEISA Training in Espoo, Finland
Espoo, Finland,
May 30 - June 1, 2007
The 4th DEISA training session will be held at CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland on the 30th May to the 1st of June, 2007. Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are invited to attend.
The training […]
Read the complete news article DEISA Training in Espoo, Finland.
DEISA Symposium: Towards Petascale Computing in Europe
Munich, Germany,
May 21st - 22nd, 2007.
The 3rd DEISA Symposium will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, in Munich, Germany on the 21st and 22nd of May, 2007. This year, the DEISA Symposium focuses on the initiatives and strategies being deployed to enhance the outreach of high performance computing in Europe.
The […]
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FHPCA: FPGA supercomputer celebrates Scottish heritage
A new FPGA supercomputer named Maxwell is based on technology invented in Scotland and constructed by the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance.
The system, built at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, uses FPGAs as an alternative to conventional microprocessors. More powerful than a conventional system of a similar sise and using ten times less power, […]
Read the complete news article FHPCA: FPGA supercomputer celebrates Scottish heritage.
University signs contract for supercomputer
A multi-million pound contract for a huge computer system which will benefit academic research across the whole of the UK is to be signed by staff from the University of Edinburgh today (Thursday February 22nd).
HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is a vast computing facility worth £113m over six years. The computer will be made […]
Read the complete news article University signs contract for supercomputer.
HECToR: High Performance Computing Steps up Another Gear
EPSRC have signed two contracts, worth £113 million, to provide the next generation UK High End Computing service. The contracts are with UoE HPCX Ltd and NAG (Numerical Algorithms Group) Ltd. UoE HPCX Ltd is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Edinburgh.
HECToR (High End Computing Terascale Resources) is the latest national high […]
Read the complete news article HECToR: High Performance Computing Steps up Another Gear.
HPCx: UK academic supercomputer doubles capability
The Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) formally accepted the third and final phase of HPCx, the UK National Academic Supercomputer, on 7 November. When originally commissioned by the UK Research Councils in 2002 it was immediately designated as one of the top 10 largest supercomputers in the world. In 2004, the capability of […]
Read the complete news article HPCx: UK academic supercomputer doubles capability.
DEISA Training Programme in Jülich, Germany
The 2nd DEISA training session will be held at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, in Jülich, Germany, on October 23rd - 25th, 2006.
The training will give a global introduction to the usage of the DEISA infrastructure and discuss the topic of performance and portability.
DEISA will refund all reasonable expenses.
For more information and registration, please visit http://www.deisa.eu/news_events/deisa_events/juelich_training.php
Read the complete news article DEISA Training Programme in Jülich, Germany.
edikt2 Technical Workshop (7th September, 2006, NeSC)
edikt (www.edikt.org) produces new knowledge by using computational science to extract information from vast datasets, and generate models through simulation.
The current phase of the project aims to develop and support research computing in the University Of Edinburgh by providing access to computing resources and developing new computational tools.
As part of this project there are […]
Read the complete news article edikt2 Technical Workshop (7th September, 2006, NeSC).
The first DEISA training session. Paris, France
The first DEISA training session will be organised in Paris on July 3-5, 2005. Scientists from all European countries and members of industrial organisations involved in high performance computing are invited to attend.
The purpose of the training is to enable fast development of user skills and know-how needed for the efficient utilisation of the […]
Read the complete news article The first DEISA training session. Paris, France.
2nd Call for Proposals within the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative
DEISA is consortium of leading national supercomputing centres that currently deploys and operates a persistent, production quality, distributed supercomputing environment with continental scope.
Read the complete news article 2nd Call for Proposals within the DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative.
New parallel processing course for the games industry
Next Generation Gaming arrives with a Big Bang!
Codemasters and EPCC announce Parallel Processing Course for the Games Industry sponsored by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.
Codemasters, the leading developer of critically acclaimed video games, and the EPCC today confirmed a collaborative project to develop an industry course in parallel computing for games development.
The course […]
Read the complete news article New parallel processing course for the games industry.
New consortium aims to give the UK a world lead in research using high performance computing
The largest ever consortium to support UK academic research using high performance computers (HPC) is being established by the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester and the Council for the Central Laboratories of the Research Councils’ (CCLRC) Daresbury Laboratory.
Professor Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, Professor Alan Gilbert, President and […]
OGSA-DAI receives 1.86million follow-on funding
An Edinburgh research team that created software used by scientists worldwide has received follow-on funding of £1.86million.
Read the complete news article OGSA-DAI receives 1.86million follow-on funding.
Australia, China & United Kingdom linked by world’s longest computing grid
Software developed by EPCC is supporting a computing grid that stretches across three continents.
The grid is part of the INWA (Innovation Node: Western Australia) grid project, which is investigating the suitability of existing grid technologies for secure, commercial data mining. The project underscores the notion that sharing and collaboration in technology can result in tremendous […]
EPPC@15
By Arthur Trew
Director of EPCC
This year marks the 15th birthday of the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC). This is, for us a significant milestone and I wanted to take this opportunity to review the past decade and a half, not only in terms of the changes we have seen as an organization, but also to […]
EPCC to appear at ISC2006
Again this year, EPCC will be exhibiting at this year’s International Supercomputing Conference, ISC2006, taking place from 27th to the 30th of June, 2006. This year, ISC2006 has expanded and moved to a new location, as it will be staged at the International Congress Centre in Dresden, Germany instead of its traditional location in Heidelberg. […]