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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The refreshed Met Office Academic Partnership (MOAP) brings together a renewed line-up of world-class university partners. We look forward to an ambitious new phase of scientific discovery in weather and climate science. edin.ac/3TEHPEs

Quote: "I am delighted to lead the University of Edinburgh's ongoing engagement in the Met Office Academic Partnership. It is testament to our leadership in world-class scientific and high-performance computing and to the importance of our enduring collaboration with the Met Office. I am excited to embark on four more years of cutting-edge research to advance our shared goals in weather forecasting and climate science."

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

EPCC is hiring! We have the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager edin.ac/4oZHnuw Applications Developers edin.ac/491r4HA Closing date for both posts is 14 January 2026.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Two new PhD opportunities are available at EPCC as part of the VECTA programme. This £17m EPSRC Strategic Prosperity Partnership is developing the modelling capabilities to virtually design and certify the next generation of aircraft engines. edin.ac/4oWIB9Q

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

EPCC's refreshed Cirrus service for academia and industry has launched! It offers new resources for CPU-based HPC use and increases the flexibility of the service. There are now more ways to interact with Cirrus too. Read more in Andy Turner's article: edin.ac/4pwKPhq

EPCC's Cirrus supercomputer with an image of winter mountains across the cabinets.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

A new partnership between the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and EPCC will enable closer collaboration between the two organisations, with a focus on the effective delivery of large-scale compute infrastructure to inform national approaches. edin.ac/4a8bHiX

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Was great to visit @ncar-cisl.bsky.social last week in Boulder and Cheyenne, we have a centre to centre collaboration via the #EPSRC #CONTINENTS project and they have some really impressive facilities and work. Great discussions ahead of then travelling to St. Louis for #SC25 this week

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Michèle Weiland @micheleweiland.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Steve Dean from HPE kicking off the “Sustainable Supercomputing” workshop at #SC25 - the room is pretty packed already, but there are a few more seats in room 264 if you want to join. Lots of interesting presentations still to come!

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Adrian Jackson @adrianjhpc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

That's the @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth set up. Come and find us at #2836

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Adrian Jackson @adrianjhpc.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth starting to go up, hanging sign and all

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

We're counting down to the opening of #SC25! To find out what's happening at the UK's first National Supercomputing Centre, find us at Booth 2832 or across the programme. See our daily schedule for details: edin.ac/47zG2nK #HPCignites

Gateway Arch National Park, St. Louis, MO, USA by Kenny Nguyễn

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

EPCC colleagues produce a range of high quality scientific visualisations. In this article, Sébastien Lemaire gives an overview of three recent examples, each to be presented at the #SC25 conference "Art in HPC" sessions. edin.ac/3WRk2Qd @nseb.bsky.social

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Our Cirrus service for academia and industry is being refreshed. The CPU-based Cirrus EX4000, with over 73,000 AMD compute cores linked by an HPE Slingshot 11 interconnect, will be available soon - see edin.ac/4pZb6W4. Until then, here’s EPCC Director Mark Parsons building an AMD chip in Lego!

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

EPCC has won EU & UK Gov funding to establish and operate the €10m (£8.6m) UK AI Factory Antenna. This initiative will help organisations increase literacy in the technology and its use, and show how it can help increase productivity and deliver growth. edin.ac/3WzDaSx

Colourful wires on the Cerebras CS-3 supercomputer

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Unified Shared Memory (USM) models simplify accelerator programming. In his article, Paul Bartholomew shares his research into the cost of using them: edin.ac/4mqsfFf

Scylla HPC testbed. Photo by Sebastien Lemaire, EPCC.

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Adrian Jackson @adrianjhpc.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

It's been a busy week, lots of great content and loads of great people, but #IEEE #CLUSTER 2025 is now over, bring on the next one in 2026 #HPC @epcc.bsky.social

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Adrian Jackson @adrianjhpc.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Getting ready to start #CLUSTER25 IEEE CLUSTER 2025 in Edinburgh today. First day is workshops and tutorials.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It's a busy time at EPCC as we prepare for the first ever total power down of the Advanced Computing Facility. EPCC's Director of HPC Systems explains why we are taking this essential action, which will include the pausing of all our HPC services for the duration of the outage. edin.ac/4lPKTGq

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

We’re getting ready to host IEEE Cluster in Edinburgh next week. Among the highlights will be keynotes from Natalia Vassilieva (Cerebras Systems); Rosa Badia (@bsc-cns.bsky.social) and Garth Wells (University of Cambridge). Talk abstracts: edin.ac/41qm0K9

Montage promoting IEEE Cluster 2025, Edinburgh, from 2-5 September

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Sarah Neuwirth 🇪🇺👩🏼‍💻👩🏻‍🏫😄 @sneuwirth.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

📢 [FINAL] Call for Papers for the REX-IO 2025 Workshop! 📢 REX-IO 2025 is still accepting submissions (short & full papers) and your high-quality work can make a big difference! Final deadline: July 25, 2025 11:59PM AoE. 🤩 📜 🦖 More information: sites.google.com/view/rexio/ #HPC #supercomputing

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

We are delighted to announce that EPCC has been named the UK’s first National Supercomputing Centre. This significant step is a huge endorsement of the University and its future as a world-leader in supercomputing and AI: edin.ac/4eVtnyx

Image shows (left to right) Prof. Sir Peter Mathieson, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, with Feryal Clark, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, and Prof. Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Dean of Research Computing.

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George Beckett @markgbeckett.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

With 200 Petabytes of data, stretching back more than 1M light years, and capturing 37 Bn objects, it's going to be a busy time for @lsstuk.bsky.social and @epcc.bsky.social . My favourite image, so far, is this one of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulae, formed from 678 individual images! #supercomputing

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be revealed today. This image of the Virgo cluster, which incudes 2 spiral galaxies and 3 merging galaxies, gives a sneak preview of what we can expect. Read how EPCC is supporting Rubin's Legacy Survey of Space and Time: edin.ac/40f1n2F

A mall section of NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory's total view of the Virgo cluster. Visible are two spiral galaxies (lower right), three merging galaxies (upper right), several groups of distant galaxies, many stars in the Milky Way galaxy and more.
Credit: NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

On 23 June 2025 the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be revealed to the world in a ‘First Look’ event. A collaboration between EPCC and the University of Edinburgh's Institute for Astronomy will be central to the decade of great science that will follow. edin.ac/40f1n2F

Rubin Observatory stands on Cerro Pachón in Chile against a sky full of star trails in this long exposure night sky image. Credit: Hernan Stockebrand.

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

I've really enjoyed #PASC25 this week in Brugg, where there have been many insightful talks. The highlight for me was our mini-symposium on moving to more sustainable #HPC (as part of #CONTINENTS) and I spoke to Maria from @cscsch.bsky.social about the session youtu.be/-PGgfDSEWUs?...

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Moving Towards a More Sustainable HPC Ecosystem A Full Stack Approach

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Weronika from @epcc.bsky.social talks in the sustainable training mini symposium at #PASC25 about some of the activities going on in @epcc.bsky.social , and specifically #UNIVERSE_HPC

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

@paulbcfd.bsky.social , #CFD expert @epcc.bsky.social presents ASiMoV-CCS at #PASC25 which is a new #CFD solver providing improved opportunities for running at scale. A great example of using modern #Fortran

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

@micheleweiland.bsky.social talks about sustainable supercomputing @epcc.bsky.social , including clock frequency on #ARCHER2, malleable jobs, novel hardware and teaching. At #PASC25, more details on our @cerebrassystems.bsky.social systems tomorrow afternoon by Justs as part of #CONTINENTS

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

It's the last day of #ISC25 and it's a busy one! See our website for a list of our activities today: edin.ac/3HhtwzM

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

The University of Edinburgh has been announced as the home of the UK's next national supercomputer. The investment represents a huge endorsement of the University and its future as a world-leader in supercomputing and AI, recognising the strength & value of Edinburgh’s expertise. edin.ac/4ehIPVD

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

It's almost time for #ISC25! Say hello at Booth A10, where we will be demonstrating Wee Archie, our mini supercomputer. We'll have giveaways too, including our highly sought-after Highland cow tshirts! edin.ac/3HhtwzM

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Sarah Neuwirth 🇪🇺👩🏼‍💻👩🏻‍🏫😄 @sneuwirth.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

📢 [CFP] REX-IO 2025 Workshop at IEEE Cluster Conference 2025! I'm happy to announce the 5th Workshop on Re-envisioning Extreme-Scale I/O for Emerging Hybrid HPC Workloads! Submissions are due July 9, 2025 (11:59PM AoE). 🤩 📜 🦖 Further info: sites.google.com/view/rexio/ #HPC #supercomputing

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Ryohei Kobayashi @ryohei-kobayashi.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

✈️ IEEE Cluster 2025 - Call for Participation! 📢 📍 Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 📅 Dates: September 2-5, 2025 Early registration deadline: August 4, 2025, UK time zone clustercomp.org/2025/registr... Details about Keynotes, WS / TUT, and Student Travel Awards are on the Web!

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Website for IEEE Cluster 2025. The latest news is also shown in Twitter/ieeecluster

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Andrea Gallo, CEO of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy kicks off #RISCVSummitEurope , great to see #HPC mentioned and some of the activities in Europe highlighted, along with the #riscv ecosystem labs programme that @epcc.bsky.social is member of with our #HPC testbed

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Ryohei Kobayashi @ryohei-kobayashi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

📢📢📢 Deadline extended: MAY 2, 2025 AoE!!📢📢📢 🚀 𝐈𝐄𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬! 📢 Detail: clustercomp.org/2025/papers/ 📍 Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 📅 Dates: September 2-5, 2025

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Website for IEEE Cluster 2025. The latest news is also shown in Twitter/ieeecluster

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Don't forget to register if you plan to attend the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2025! This year's event will take place from 14-15 May, 2025, in Edinburgh. Registration closes 29 April, 2025. edin.ac/3CeviQ3 @softwaresaved.bsky.social @researchsoftware.bsky.social

Montage promoting ARCHER2 Celebration of Science

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Join the EPCC HPC Summer School 2025! This 2-week residential programme in Edinburgh will comprise hands-on practical training and the opportunity to apply new skills in a real-world context. Apply by April 28, 11:59 AM BST. edin.ac/4it9gIp

Edinburgh skyline. Photo by Chris Close.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Largest Cerebras CS-3 cluster in Europe installed at the University of Edinburgh to accelerate AI research & UK’s AI capabilities. Operated by EPCC, and part of the Edinburgh International Data Facility, the cluster comprises four CS-3s. edin.ac/43IZPAP

Photograph shows colourful wires inside Cerebras CS-3.

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Programming for the Planet @propl.dev · 03/04/2025

The 2nd Programming for the Planet workshop will be hybrid and co-located with ICFP/SPLASH in October in Singapore! Our call for papers is out at conf.researchr.org/home/icfp-sp..., submission deadline 3rd July 2025.

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PROPL 2025 - Programming for the Planet 2025 - ICFP/SPLASH 2025

There are simultaneous interlinked crises across the planet due to human actions: climate change, biodiversity loss, and desertification. Addressing these challenges requires, amongst other things, a ...

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Ryohei Kobayashi @ryohei-kobayashi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚀Additionally, Calls of Workshops and Tutorials are open. 📢 Submission deadline: April, 18, 2025. CfW: clustercomp.org/2025/worksho... CfT: clustercomp.org/2025/tutoria... #IEEE #Cluster2025 #HPC #CFP #CFW #CFT

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Website for IEEE Cluster 2025. The latest news is also shown in Twitter/ieeecluster

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

A great opportunity to come and lead #HPC activities @epcc.bsky.social , there are lots of exciting things happening at the moment and @epcc.bsky.social is widely recognised as a world-leading #HPC centre.

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Vacancy at EPCC: Director of HPC Services. This role provides high level, strategic leadership & hands-on management, working with stakeholders to grow the international reputation & standing of EPCC & The University of Edinburgh. Closes: 20/03/2025, 23:59. buff.ly/40RYyEe

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Ryohei Kobayashi @ryohei-kobayashi.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

🚀 𝐈𝐄𝐄𝐄 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓 – 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬! 📢 Submission Deadline: April 25, 2025 📍 Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom 📅 Dates: September 2-5, 2025 📢 The CFP is open! Submit your paper by April 25, 2025: clustercomp.org/2025/papers/

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Website for IEEE Cluster 2025. The latest news is also shown in Twitter/ieeecluster

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Michèle Weiland @micheleweiland.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

📣 Four weeks remaining to apply for fully funded PhDs for September 2025 entry via the ExaGEO DLA 🌍💻🧠🧑‍🎓 www.exageo.org @epcc.bsky.social #HPC #Exascale

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Nick Brown @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Some great PhD opportunities @epcc.bsky.social working at the intersection between #exascale #supercomputing and the environment

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EPCC @epcc.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thinking of studying on-campus with EPCC but haven't applied yet? Join the @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social Postgraduate Discovery Day: 19 February 2025. This online event offers a general introduction to on-campus study & includes an opportunity to hear from current students. buff.ly/3SCYnIU

Winter view of Meadows park, Edinburgh. Photo by Miheala Bodlovic.

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Joe O’Connor @joe-oconnor.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A reminder that we have a fully-funded PhD position available as part of the ExaGEO DLA, focused on "GPU-Accelerated High-Fidelity Hydrodynamics Modelling for Tidal Energy Resource and Environmental Impact Assessment". Follow the link for more details or feel free to get in touch with me directly.

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