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Based in the University of Edinburgh, UK, EPCC provides supercomputing and data services to industry and academia. www.epcc.ed.ac.uk www.linkedin.com/company/epcc
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EPCC will host the NHS data that underpins SteatoSITE, a unique Scottish project developing new tests & treatments for people with a progressive form of steatotic liver disease. buff.ly/ggG9AOm

FAIR4RS Principles Review The FAIR for Research Software Principles were released in 2022. Have they been useful & useable, or difficult to understand or implement? Survey closes March 7th 2025. buff.ly/zPv8elM

Upcoming community sessions next week buff.ly/4gld5P9 Events are in UTC Time : 📣 Glosario Co-working session L5 March 15:00 📣 CarpentriesOffline Community Meeting 5 March 15:30 🇺🇸 US Midwest Community Call L5 March 18:00 📣 HPC Carpentry Community Call 6 March 12:00 & 22:00

The ARCHER2 calendar image for March is "Separated vortex ring above a three-dimensional porous disc" by Dr Chandan Bose, Aerospace Engineering, School of Metallurgy and Materials, University of Birmingham. Full details: buff.ly/PLuibTp

Webinar: The Science Behind the Image Competition Online: 19 March, 15:00-16:00 Sébastien Lemaire (EPCC) & Andrew Mole (Imperial College London) will talk about the video “Effects of 'wake steering' on wind turbine flows”. Register now! edin.ac/3D0L2Xf

📝 Invest in Open Infrastructure has recently published a report on the state of open research software infrastructure. Find out more about it and how to access it at

Congratulations! EPCC PhD student Felicity 'Flic' Anderson was awarded the best poster prize at #deRSE25 in Karlsruhe, Germany, today. You can read about the work of Felicity, and our other PhD students, on our website: edin.ac/4kjArY3

We're hiring! Join us at one of Europe’s premier supercomputing & data science centres. HPC Systems Specialist – Senior Systems Administrator *Closes 28 Feb.* https://buff.ly/3D87cqj Director of HPC Services *Closes 20 March.* https://buff.ly/40RYyEe

Looking for flexible learning? Sign up for this online event on 26 March to hear from students, staff and graduates of Online Masters programmes. And you can read all about EPCC's Online Masters programmes on our website: edin.ac/41tVq34

Nominate an outstanding early-career researcher for the #ISC #JackDongarra Early Career Award before Feb 26⌛! 🏆 €5,000 prize for exceptional contributions to HPC, algorithms, and computational sciences. 🎉 👉https://isc-hpc.com/jack-dongarra-award/ #HPC #supercomputing #EuroHPC #MondayMotivation

We invite you to participate in the webinar "Latin American Women in HPC", a unique space where leading researchers and professionals in High Performance Computing will share their experiences, advances and challenges in this field. More information: sites.google.com/view/la-whpc

Collaborations Workshop 2025 (CW25): 13-15 May, Stirling (hybrid). CW25 will bring together researchers, software developers, managers, funders & more to explore important ideas in software & research & to plant the seeds of interdisciplinary collaborations. Register now! https://edin.ac/4gU0KRS

📅 Upcoming community sessions next week https://buff.ly/4gld5P9 Events are in UTC Time : 📣 Workbench Transition Coworking 24 Feb 09:00 and 19:00 🇬🇧 UK Carpentry Community Monthly Call 24 Feb16:00

We've been working with Advai, a UK-based global leader in the adoption of safe and secure artificial intelligence. In this podcast EPCC Director Mark Parsons and Advai co-founder Chris Jefferson explore the possibilities opened up by our collaboration. https://buff.ly/3EYHfdm

EPCC vacancy: HPC Systems Specialist – Senior Systems Administrator (full-time). This is a fantastic opportunity to join the UK’s leading centre for research supercomputing & data science service provision. Closes 28/02/2025. https://edin.ac/3zkW5bn

We're working with the National Collection of Aerial Photography to digitise one of the UK's most impressive historic datasets, looking at the most data-efficient way of digitally storing this vast collection of imagery. Learn more:

We're working with the National Collection of Aerial Photography to digitise one of the UK's most impressive historic datasets, looking at the most data-efficient way of digitally storing this vast collection of imagery. Learn more about this fascinating project: edin.ac/41kiP72

Eugene from #tenstorrent shares #RISCV for #HPC #AI and #ML at #RISCV for #HPC workshop, and some of the exciting planned technologies to lower the cost of compute, along with a live demo

Flo from #openhw kicks off the #riscv for #hpc workshop giving the keynote on the importance of open hardware. There is a very good chance you have #riscv in your phone, you just dont know it!

It's great to be in Taiwan for #HPCAsia this week, we are kicking off tomorrow morning with a #RISCV for #HPC workshop. I am super excited as we have a fantastic line up of speakers, show casing #RISCV in the Asia region riscv.epcc.ed.ac.uk/community/wo...

Workshop: "HPC Ready: Developing RSE & HPC skills". 27 March 2025, 10-4pm. Bayes Centre, Edinburgh & online. Come along to network & find out about developments in RSE & HPC training. Tea, coffee, cake & lunch will be provided. All welcome! https://buff.ly/3X2J9Qs

Elevate your programming expertise with our Advanced OpenMP course! Online: 18, 20, 25, 27 Feb 2025, 10:00 to 12:00 GMT. Designed for programmers who want to deepen their understanding of #OpenMP. Includes hands-on, practical programming exercises. https://edin.ac/3CUR0c0

We offer three scholarship schemes to support students of our on-campus and online MSc programmes, the MSc in HPC and MSc in HPC with Data Science. The first deadline, for applicants to our on-campus programmes, is March 3rd, 2025. Details on our website: https://edin.ac/42PGjCa

We provide computational training to UK researchers as part of the ARCHER2 UK national supercomputing service. EPCC's Evgenij Belikov writes about a course he recently delivered at Cardiff University, using materials developed by The Carpentries: https://buff.ly/3EAXXzv

We're part of the Data Driven Innovation (DDI) Initiative through the Edinburgh International Data Facility. The new DDI annual review includes two examples of how we're collaborating with companies to achieve their business goals. https://buff.ly/3CDTqMa

Our ECR Team is excited to announce a new tranche of funding being made available for staff Early Career Researcher-led projects. 📅 Deadline 17 April More information and apply today ➡️ https://buff.ly/4aMAZBu #ECR #EarlyCareerResearcher #funding

Two days until our seminar with Dr Denis Newman-Griffis! They will be sharing insights into how we shape the response use of Responsible AI methodologies. Get your free hybrid ticket now 👇 @designinf.bsky.social @inspacegallery.bsky.social @technomoralfutures.bsky.social shorturl.at/1UfCa

We are excited to announce a new, funded PhD studentship opportunity, alongside the School of Informatics @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social! Supervised by @zeerak.bsky.social and starting Sept 2025, the project will examine the ethical implications of natural language processing. Apply ▶️ edin.ac/40PAXEq

Have you tried our latest #data-themed #EscapeRoom? 👩‍💻 "Undercover Mission in Norway" will ask First (P2-P4)and Second (P5-P7) Level learners to stop the villanous Vikings and avoid a global catastrophe, by going through 7 data-themed tasks 🔴 https://buff.ly/3WQ21C7

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.

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. https://buff.ly/40RYyEe

Postgraduate Discovery Day: online, 19 Feb 2025. This event will give a general introduction to on-campus study at The University of Edinburgh. It is particularly suited to those who have not yet applied to an on-campus postgraduate programme. https://edin.ac/3kN6bug

#ISC workshops are always my favourite part of the conference, we currently have a call for papers open for the #RISCV for #HPC workshop riscv.epcc.ed.ac.uk/community/wo... accepting mature and work in progress papers

Edinburgh Futures Institute’s Spring 2025 event season, 'Making Waves', is open for booking! The season runs from 14 March to 2 May, with over 10 events exploring creativity in areas like art, tech, science & the environment. Free & open to all! Book now ➡️ edin.ac/40RR5Fw #challengecreatechange

Encourage your learners to develop #dataliteracy skills throught an understanding of water 🌊 Explore our resource "Water Pollution". Suitable for Second (P5-P7), Third (S1-S3) and Senior Phase (S4-6) learners. https://buff.ly/3RIPbmz

#Laminar: bridging serverless computing & AI-driven code exploration. EPCC Chancellor's Fellow Rosa Filgueira writes about research into how Laminar can support domain scientists & researchers in using advanced computational tools effortlessly. https://buff.ly/4jWzoxc

Advanced OpenMP course 18, 20, 25 & 27 Feb (online). Are you a programmer seeking to deepen your understanding of OpenMP? Explore some of its more recent & advanced features with this ARCHER2 course. More info & registration : https://edin.ac/4jGhkqV

Operated by EPCC, ARCHER2 is the UK National Supercomputing Service. This image shows "Modelling hydrogen deposition: assessing climate impacts of interactive methane & hydrogen" by ARCHER2 user Dr Megan Brown, Yufus Hamied Dept of Chemistry, University of Cambridge. Details: https://buff.ly/4jSKN10

Are you enrolled in a PhD, master's, or full-time undergraduate programme? Applications for the #ISC25 Student Volunteer Programme close on February 16, 2025. Don't miss out! https://buff.ly/40nB9KU

A reminder that there are just two and half weeks left until the deadline for this fully-funded PhD position in "GPU-Accelerated High-Fidelity Hydrodynamics Modelling for Tidal Energy Resource and Environmental Impact Assessment". Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions!

Introducing our latest cohort of System Administration interns and Graduate Apprentices, who will all be based at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility: https://buff.ly/3ChfrQM @edinburghnapier.bsky.social

Applications for fully-funded @exageo-dla.bsky.social DLA PhDs close on 17 Feb 2025 (for Sep 2025 entry). The University of Edinburgh, through EPCC, is the primary institution for 4 of these projects. See our website for details: https://buff.ly/4gNwUPA

Good luck!

EPCC operates the Edinburgh International Data Facility, the data science-enabling resources that underpin the Data-Driven Innovation initiative (DDI). By focusing on innovation, education & skill development, DDI is benefitting businesses and communities: edin.ac/4jz2O48

Best wishes to TeamEPCC who will compete in the virtual Student Cluster Competition at #ISC25! The team is drawn from our MSc in HPC, and our MSc in HPC with Data Science. Study opportunities at EPCC: edin.ac/3Uwy1sL #ISC25_SCC

As computer scientists we can sometimes be quite a long way from the actual impact, I therefore really enjoyed this event last year and hearing about the depth and breadth of science achievements resulting from ARCHER2. Am looking forward to it again in 2025!

Looking forward to seeing many of you then!

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2025: registration & call for posters now open. 14-15 May 2025, Edinburgh, UK, A showcase of the science achievements of ARCHER2 users, it will be of interest to users of this UK national HPC service & the wider UK science community. Full details: edin.ac/3CeviQ3

EPCC is part of Failure Modes of Engineering (FeME), a new £2.2 million UK engineering network that will create inclusive, sustainable & impactful solutions to the challenges facing our planet. edin.ac/3Cb9HYL @kirstypringle.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social