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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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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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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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Beginner's guide to EIDF: navigating the GPU Service and Kubernetes

The Edinburgh International Data Facility offers a practical route to "real" AI compute without becoming an infrastructure expert first. 

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EPCC at the Edinburgh Science Festival 2026

EPCC PhD student Sam Jackson was among our team at this year's Festival. He writes about his experience as a first-time volunteer on the EPCC booth.

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Sam Jackson, EPCC PhD student

EPCC and StackHPC deliver a highly-available data science cloud for EIDF

StackHPC was engaged by EPCC to provide a "from design to support" solution for the EIDF Data Science Cloud (DSC).

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