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The Carpentries at 25

To mark the 25th anniversary of the first Software Carpentry workshop, The Carpentries have been running a series of online events to share experiences and memories.

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EPCC at CIUK 2023

We're getting ready for Computing Insight UK 2023, the UK's premier conference for high performance computing and its associated science!

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EOSC EVERSE: Paving the way towards a European Virtual Institute for Research Software Excellence

Software is ubiquitous in modern society; from our cell phones to our transportation, and from entertainment to industry. Trust in research software longevity requires good engineering and clear or

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Research paper: Exploring the suitability of the Cerebras Wafer Scale Engine for stencil-based computation codes

EPCC's Justs Zarins explains the background to this paper, which examines the use of the Cerebras CS-1 for stencil computation, a common HPC workload. 

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Review: the Second International RISC-V for HPC workshop

EPCC's Nick Brown writes about the recent Second International RISC-V for HPC workshop, which was held at SC23 in Denver, Colorado this month.

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Designing quantum algorithms at NQCC’s Second UK Quantum Hackathon

Jakub Adamski, a PhD student at EPCC, writes about attending a hackathon organised by the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) this summer. 

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DataLoch: Unifying health data in the Lothian region

EPCC's Ally Hume gives a personal view of working on the DataLoch data service, developed by the University of Edinburgh and NHS Lothian to address major health and social care challenges.

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Studying for a PhD at EPCC: NVIDIA internship

Ricardo Jesus, a PhD student at EPCC, writes about the six-month internship he undertook with NVIDIA this year.

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EPCC activities at SC23: Novel architectures and how to program them

A variety of new hardware architectures are becoming available for HPC and Machine Learning workloads and they, along with solving challenges around how to program them effectively, form a major pa

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Edinburgh International Data Facility named Big Data Value Association i-space

EPCC is delighted to announce that the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) has been named as one of the Big Data Value Association i-spaces. 

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Our Autumn 2023 newsletter is now online

Read what's been happening at the UK's premier supercomputing centre.

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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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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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