From our Director I hope that as you leaf through this issue of EPCC News you’ll see what a broad range of activities EPCC is involved in. We’re going through one of our expansion phases with lots of new opportunities presenting themselves – many but not all related to the Edinburgh & SE Scotland City Region Deal. A key part of this is our office move in August – the first time we’ve done this in 28 years. We’re looking forward to taking possession of our floor in the new “Bayes Centre for Data Science and Technology”, located beside the Informatics Forum in central Edinburgh. We all have many memories of the James Clerk Maxwell Building – I first came to the building in 1989 and, apart from a few summers at CERN during my PhD, it’s been my workplace for almost 30 years. We all have many memories of key
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EPCC “moments” too. It will be strange to leave but our new location presents enormous opportunities for EPCC and we’re looking forward to the move… but not to clearing out our offices! By the time you read this I very much hope the completion of the City Deal negotiation will have been announced. While waiting for this to happen we have not been idle – a strong set of initial projects is already in preparation. At the same time, Japan and the USA have spoken more clearly about the delivery timelines for their first exascale systems – 2021–2022. I wonder when the UK will be farsighted enough to invest in its own exascale system? Mark Parsons EPCC Director m.parsons@epcc.ed.ac.uk
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New staff EPCC continues to grow European Extreme Data & Computing Initiative Boosting HPC competitiveness
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World-Class Data Infrastructure
A unique combination of computing & data resources
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Health Data Research UK
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Preparing for exascale
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Industry projects update
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Machine learning for industry grand challenges
Applying data science to population health challenges Our new EU projects
A roundup of recent work
Applying ML to oil & gas
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Modelling room acoustics
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HPC visitors’ programme
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Digitising UK plc
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New DiRAC system arrives
Ray-tracing for sound
HPC-Europa3’s first year
EPCC to install HPE Apollo 70
Tesseract will contribute to UK e-infrastructure
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Modelling particles in the global atmosphere UK Met Office collaboration
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Supporting Big Science
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EPCC’s MSc programmes
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Moving on...
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Exascale events review
European Open Science Cloud launches Changes for the coming year EPCC’s move to the Bayes Review of workshops
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