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EPCC and Doors Open Day 2023

Last weekend the University of Edinburgh invited the public to explore different buildings across its estate.

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Quantum computing research: energy efficiency of statevector simulation at scale

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PhD research: Affective dynamic model-based machine learning for cognitive emotion recognition

Xingran Ruan, a PhD student based at EPCC, is investigating the recognition of cognitive emotions, including confusion, frustration, and boredom, with the aim of enhancing future Intelligent Tutor

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Edinburgh Doors Open Day 2023

This year we'll be appearing at two venues over the weekend.

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EPCC joins Andes Technology University Programme

Our new collaboration with Andes Technology, a leading supplier of RISC-V CPU cores, will enable the exploration of HPC workloads and tools on latest generation RISC-V CPUs.

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RSECon: The Seventh Annual Conference for Research Software Engineering

Clair Barrass, who supports the work of research software engineers (RSEs) both here in EPCC and also around the country, writes about representing EPCC at RSECon this year.

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Welcome, Class of 2023-2024!

This week we welcome the new members of our MSc programmes.

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Taking a sabbatical at EPCC

Vanesa Magar, who has joined EPCC on sabbatical leave, introduces herself and her research.

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Celebrating five years at the Bayes Centre

At the end of August 2018, EPCC left the James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) at the King’s Buildings in Edinburgh, where it had been located since EPCC's inception in 1990.

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Computing Support Officer vacancy at EPCC

We are looking for a Computing Support Officer to join our friendly team of HPC Systems Specialists. 

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Research areas

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

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