Research papers

Below is a selection of EPCC’s research papers from the past two years. To explore all our papers, search the University of Edinburgh's Research Explorer.

Is RISC-V ready for High Performance Computing? An evaluation of the Sophon SG2044

Is RISC-V ready for High Performance Computing? An evaluation of the Sophon SG2044

Brown, N., 15 Nov 2025, Proceedings of the SC '25 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis: SC Workshops '25. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 1703-1711

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Programmer productivity and performance on AMD’s AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study

Programmer productivity and performance on AMD’s AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study

Brown, N. & Rodríguez Canal, G., 15 Nov 2025, Proceedings of the SC '25 Workshops of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis: SC Workshops '25. ACM Association for Computing Machinery

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

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What is RISC-V and why should we care?

What is RISC-V and why should we care?

Brown, N., 11 Nov 2025, CUG'25: Proceedings of the Cray User Group. ACM Association for Computing Machinery, p. 178-189 189 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

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A large dataset of brain imaging linked to health systems data: the curation and access to a whole system national cohort from NHS Scotland

A large dataset of brain imaging linked to health systems data: the curation and access to a whole system national cohort from NHS Scotland

Camilleri, M. P. J., Gouzou, D., Al-Wasity, S., Mookiah, M. R. K., Hernandez, M. V., Alex, B., Tsaftaris, S. A., Brooks, A., MacLeod, R., Wu, H., Bauer, B., Grover, C., Reel, P., Krueger, S., Tobin, R., Steele, J. D., Mair, G., Wardlaw, J., Doney, A. & Trucco, E. & 1 others, Whiteley, W., 23 Oct 2025, medRxiv.

Research output: Working paperPreprint

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Asymptotic scaling laws for periodic turbulent boundary layers and their numerical simulation up to Re_theta = 8300

Asymptotic scaling laws for periodic turbulent boundary layers and their numerical simulation up to Re_theta = 8300

Wynn, A., Parvar, S., O’Connor, J., Frantz, R. A. S. & Laizet, S., 10 Oct 2025, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 1020, A6.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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Data Movement Model for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Data Movement Model for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Hernandez, F., Szumlak, T. (Editor), Beckett, M. G., Hanushevsky, A., Jenness, T., Lim, K.-T., Love, P., Noble, T., Pietrowicz, S., Yang, W., Rachwał, B. (Editor), Dziurda, A. (Editor), Schulz, M. (Editor), Bruch, D. V. (Editor), Ellis, K. (Editor) & Hageboeck, S. (Editor), 7 Oct 2025, In: EPJ Web of Conferences. 337, 01129.

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A Distributed-memory Tridiagonal Solver Based on a Specialised Data Structure Optimised for CPU and GPU Architectures

A Distributed-memory Tridiagonal Solver Based on a Specialised Data Structure Optimised for CPU and GPU Architectures

Akkurt, S. (Lead Author), Lemaire, S., Bartholomew, P. & Laizet, S., Oct 2025, In: Computer Physics Communications. 315, 109747.

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A Distributed-memory Tridiagonal Solver Based on a Specialised Data Structure Optimised for CPU and GPU Architectures

A Distributed-memory Tridiagonal Solver Based on a Specialised Data Structure Optimised for CPU and GPU Architectures

Akkurt, S. (Lead Author), Lemaire, S., Bartholomew, P. & Laizet, S., Oct 2025, In: Computer Physics Communications. 315, 109747.

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Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Visualising historical changes in air pollution with the Air Quality Stripes

Pringle, K. J., Rigby, R., Turnock, S., Reddington, C., Shayakhmetova, M., Illingworth, M., Barclay, D., Hong, N. C., Hawkins, E., Hamilton, D. S., Brain, E. & McQuaid, J. B., 1 Oct 2025, In: Geoscience Communication. 8, 4, p. 229-236 8 p.

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Frances++: LLM-Based Semantic Enrichment and Spatial Graphs for Digitized Historical Collections

Frances++: LLM-Based Semantic Enrichment and Spatial Graphs for Digitized Historical Collections

Yu, L. & Filgueira, R., 25 Sept 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience). IEEE Computer Society, 8 p.

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