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RAMP: Epidemiological modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic
EPCC and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Physics and Astronomy have been working on the Royal Society-convened Rapid Assistance in Modelling the Pandemic (RAMP) initiative.

The European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications
The European Centre of Excellence for Engineering Applications (EXCELLERAT) came to the end of its first phase in May 2022.

EPCC adds Graphcore Pod64 system to its AI portfolio.
• The system will feature the new Graphcore Bow IPU.
• The Bow Pod64 system delivers up to 22.4 Petaflops of AI compute for both training and inference.

EPCC at ISC 2022
We will be at Booth G708 in the exhibition hall of ISC 2022, and taking part in events across the conference.

Meet our new Sysadmin and HPC specialist
Several new colleagues have joined EPCC in the past six months. Here we meet Suyash Janoriya, a new Systems Administrator and HPC specialist at EPCC.

No Free Lunch and Northern Lights
Lars Gebraad, a PhD student in the Seismology and Wave Physics group at ETH Zürich, reports on his HPC-Europa3 research visit to the School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh.

HPC-Europa3 mission-possible: 11 weeks at Imperial to model heterojunctions of copper oxides and stay covid-free
Aleksandar Živković, a post-doc in the Department of Earth Sciences at Utrecht University, reports on his HPC-Europa3 research visit to the Department of Chemistry at Imperial College London.

ISC 2022 Student Cluster Competition
We are TeamEPCC, a team of four MSc students from EPCC who will participate in the ISC22 on-site Student Cluster Competition (SCC) in Hamburg, Germany in June.

Preparing for an unprecedented astronomical data set
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) is the most ambitious optical sky survey yet planned.

Updates from the Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute represents the needs of software users and developers in the research community.
