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ARCHER2 supercomputer delivers £8 for every £1 spent

ARCHER2, the UK national supercomputing service operated by EPCC, has delivered an eightfold return on investment to the economy, a report reveals.

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Quantum computing research turbocharged by funding boost

A UK Government investment of £20million for the University of Edinburgh’s Quantum Software Lab will accelerate the development of this technology.

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PhD research: Multimodal story generation using generative AI for contextualised mathematics education

EPCC PhD student Kejia Zhang gives an overview of his work, which aims to develop a learning system, named MathsTale, that integrates narrative, visual, and mathematical concepts t

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EPCC joins taskforce to accelerate convergence between HPC, Big Data and AI in Europe

Professor Jano van Hemert, EPCC Director of Data Services, has been appointed co-lead of the Big Data Value Association's Task Force on HPC, Big Data, and AI - joining Jeanette Nilsson (RISE) and C

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Enhancing the efficiency of the DataLoch data service

January 2026 marked the latest roll out of enhancements to DataLoch: NHS Lothian and the University of Edinburgh's health and social care data service.

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'Step-change' for UK's digital horsepower

A major new compute investment could accelerate the progress of astronomers exploring the mysteries of the universe, chemists searching for cancer-killing drugs, and historians analysing archives.

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University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Peter Mathieson, Deputy Director of Stakeholder Relations, Lynn McMath, and EPCC Director, Professor Mark Parsons at the Cirrus supercomputer.

Understanding weather and climate dynamics using high-resolution global cloud resolving models

EPCC's Evgenij Belikov writes about the challenges of refining the resolutions of global cloud resolving models, a key component for advancing understanding of atmospheric physics and dynamics at t

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Opening a real-time window to our vast and ever-changing skies

As the Vera C. Rubin Observatory issues its first live alerts of changes detected in the night sky, a UK innovation is allowing us to observe millions of astronomical events as they unfold.

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The open star cluster Bochum 14 as imaged by NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026: programme now available!

Taking place from 19-20 March 2026 in Edinburgh, this annual event will bring the ARCHER2 user community together again to celebrate their impactful scientific achievements on the UK National Super

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UKRI-funded Metascience Fellow to rethink AI and wicked problems

In January Batool Almarzouq joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute as a UKRI-funded AI Metascience Fellow.

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