August 2015
Cluster Challenge Application sneak peek
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 21 Aug 2015 | 11:09
Anna Chantzoplaki is working on the project “HPC Cluster Challenge app” with EPCC's Nick Brown and Amy Krause as part of the PRACE Summer of HPC Summer School. This project is developing a public outreach application that will allow participants to design their own computer cluster by choosing components within a fixed budget, configuring them and measuring performance.
Summer of HPC: Week 3
Author: Guest bloggerPosted: 19 Aug 2015 | 14:20
Jana Boltersdorf is visiting EPCC as part of the PRACE Summer of HPC programme. Together with Ondrej Vysocky she has been working on a project that is Developing the user interface for the Fluctuating Finite Element Analysis (FFEA) tool.
And now for something completely different...
Author: Iain BethunePosted: 13 Aug 2015 | 14:52
As you may know, the Edinburgh Festival is currently in full swing - in fact it's hard to make it across the city centre without stumbling across street artists or perfomers offering tickets for their shows. For the most part, life on the King's Buildings Campus goes on regardless... until our Business Development & Marketing Manager Maureen announced that we'd won the Fringe@Work competition, and Forth 1 Radio and the Gilded Balloon would be bringing a taste of the Festival Fringe direct to JCMB Lecture Theatre A.
ARCHER Impact Awards Competition 2015
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 4 Aug 2015 | 09:24
ARCHER Impact Award 2015
ARCHER Impact Award will recognise and reward researchers working on ARCHER, as individuals or teams, whose work has had substantial impact on the economy and society. The awards will showcase the researchers, their work and the impact of the science that the UK National HPC facility, ARCHER, has enabled.
ARCHER Image Competition 2015: now open
Author: Clair BarrassPosted: 4 Aug 2015 | 09:19
Following the success of last year's competition, we are again holding the ARCHER Image Competition, which invites all users of the national supercomputing service to share their images on the theme of "ARCHER Enabling Research".