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High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart and EPCC agree to strengthen collaboration
The partnership will build on a long history of cooperation between Stuttgart and Edinburgh to focus on supercomputing, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence, and emerging computing tec
Chip and software breakthrough makes AI ten times faster
Drawing on the Cerebras CS-3 service operated by EPCC, a system has been developed that enables large language models (LLMs) to process information up to ten times faster than current AI systems.
SC25 session: Building sustainable HPC outreach
As Eleanor Broadway explains, outreach is essential for growing and diversifying the HPC community by communicating the importance of our work to broader audiences.
Breaking I/O bottlenecks in scientific workflows: a new EPCC–University of Turin collaboration
Our new paper, “Overcoming Dynamic I/O Boundaries: a Double-Sided Streaming Methodology with dispel4py and CAPIO”, will be presented at WORKS 2025, part of the SC25 Workshops series.
A busy time at SC25!
Supercomputing (SC), the HPC community's largest conference, is held annually over the course of a week in a major US city, this year St. Louis.
Three cinematic EPCC visualisations at SC25
Three new scientific visualisations by EPCC will be presented at the "Art of HPC" sessions at SC25.
ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026
Registration and the call for posters are now open for the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026!
Join the Software Sustainability Institute's Research Software Camps
The Software Sustainability Institute (SSI) runs free online Research Software Camps (RSCs) once a year over the course of two weeks.
ARCHER2 webinar: Parallel Python
Make your Python code 10,000 times faster with parallel numpy!
Fostering early-career development
Christopher Lo and Jack Scott, Electrical and Mechanical Engineering students at the University of Edinburgh, look back on their 12-week placement with us at the Advanced Computing Facility.
ASiMoV-CCS: a new solver for scalable and extensible CFD and combustion simulations
ASiMoV-CCS is a new solver for CFD and combustion simulations in complex geometries.
Data management: hosting an invaluable research dataset
Following many years of collaborating with the National Collection of Aerial Photography, EPCC has been chosen as the hosting site for the research copy of its historic dataset of over 30 million a
€10m project to accelerate AI use in UK
A new multi-million-pound European project is set to boost adoption of AI among businesses and researchers across the UK to help unlock untapped economic and scientific potential.
Exploring the frontiers of data science with EIDF
The Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF) hosted its second drop-in session in September, reconfirming its role as a foundation for innovative developments.
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Research themes
We conduct research at the leading edge of High Performance Computing and Data Science.
ARCHER2
ARCHER2 serves as the UK’s National High Performance Computing system and facilitates world-class science for UK researchers.
Masters' programmes
EPCC offers a suite of two linked Masters' programmes.
PhD study
EPCC offers a unique setting for in-depth research and excellent connections into industry to provide further opportunities for our students and graduates.
Advanced Computing Facility
The Advanced Computing Facility is the High Performance Computing data centre of EPCC.
On-demand HPC service
Direct, secure access to EPCC’s High Performance Computing platforms delivering the highest levels of performance.
