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Five ways to connect with EIDF in 2027 

The EIDF's 2027 events programme is here: five online drop-ins plus our flagship hybrid Town Hall at the Bayes Centre.

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Software breakthrough could spur quantum computer advances

A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests. 

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How long-read sequencing is ending the diagnostic odyssey

Dr Prasun Dutta and colleagues at Oxford University have used long-read sequencing to diagnose three families whose cases had defied standard analysis, revealing the crucial variants had been in th

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UK AI Factory Antenna represented at EuroHPC User Days 2026

The UK AI Factory Antenna (Pilot-UKAIFA) at EPCC was represented at the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) User Days 2026 in Dublin in September.

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ARCHER2 training course: Modern C++ for Computational Scientists 

This course will cover a minimal set of features to allow experienced programmers with existing experience in another language to get to grips with C++.

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EPCC PhD research: Compiling HPC codes for novel hardware architectures

Jake Davies is investigating whether existing programming models can run on custom hardware architectures performantly, attaining high performance and code portability across accelerators.

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AI Minister marks milestone on supercomputer build

UK Government Cabinet Minister for Artificial Intelligence, The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP, has visited the site of the UK’s Next National Supercomputer in Edinburgh, marking progress on the projec

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A review of the EIDF September drop-in: AI-driven climate science, automated archives and smarter GPU jobs 

At the September EIDF drop-in session, the team shared a range of projects and service updates, from sustainable climate modelling to large-scale document digitisation and improvements to the GPU s

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Pilot-UKAIFA and HammerHAI: UK and Germany collaborate to strengthen AI in Europe

Through Pilot, the UK AI Factory Antenna, EPCC is again working closely with HLRS, Germany's first national supercomputing centre.

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Duolingo dissertation grant supports research into AI-generated mathematical stories

A Duolingo dissertation grant has been awarded to a team at the University of Edinburgh to support research into AI-generated mathematical storytelling.

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