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Edinburgh International Data Facility holds first Town Hall meeting

Earlier this month we hosted the inaugural EIDF Town Hall meeting in Edinburgh, UK. Here are some of the highlights.

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Air Quality Stripes to feature in London festival

Researchers from EPCC are contributing to a new public festival exploring the links between air quality, health and everyday life through art, science and community engagement.

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Close up view of knitted Air Stripe

TeamEPCC at the ISC26 Student Cluster Competition

TeamEPCC, comprising five students from EPCC’s MSc in HPC and one EPCC apprentice from Edinburgh Napier University, will compete in the in-person ISC26 Student Cluster Competition (SCC).

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Photo shows the 6 members of TeamEPCC outside the McEwan Hall, Edinburgh

Edinburgh supercomputing history: Meiko T800 Computing Surface

At 3pm on Monday 12 May 1986, the first entry was made in the logbook for the University of Edinburgh's Meiko T800 Computing Surface system, hosted in the University's James Clark Maxwell Building.

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Meiko cabinet and sign

Optimising the computational performance of high degree lithospheric field models

The time required to compute a British Geological Survey model has been reduced from six days to one hour following a collaboration with EPCC.

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Four panels with contextual information of the crustal magnetic field in the North Atlantic Ocean around Iceland and Greenland

Piloting a Modern Apprenticeship at EPCC

We are always looking for new ways to support early careers in our field, and most recently have piloted a Modern Apprenticeship in Digital Technology.  

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Max Jones, ACF data centre technician

Call for DRI Knowledge Exchange Fellows

CAKE is searching for Fellows to champion and enable knowledge exchange in an area of the UK Digital Research Infrastructure community. Apply by 19 May 2026.

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Want to port scientific codes to a chip the size of a dinner plate?

 We've got a fully-funded PhD for that!

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Cerebras CS-3 chip

Dive deep into data science innovation at the EIDF Town Hall

Join us at the EIDF Town Hall on 5 May, 2026.

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Montage promoting EIDF Town Hall meeting on 5 May 2026

The International HPC Summer School 2026

EPCC has had a long association with the International HPC Summer School, and this year our colleagues will again be involved in organising and delivering the programme.

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International HPC Summer School 2025 group photograph