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EPCC's Jano van Hemert writes about Pilot-UK AI Factory Antenna in the October issue of HiPEAC Info. See p14 to read about this initiative, based at EPCC, which connects users to the broader European AI Factory network: edin.ac/4khJuet

Two scientific visualisations created by EPCC's Sébastien Lemaire will be presented at the #SC26 'Art in HPC' exhibition. Read Sebastien's article on our website to learn how he created these works. edin.ac/4z4l1hb #HPCUnites

Pilot-UKAIFA provides free AI training and consultancy-style services to UK-based organisations, helping them build practical AI capability. Join the 'AI Potential' webinar at 2pm on 11 Nov to learn more: edin.ac/3WpkGY5 This event is presented in association with ScotlandIS.

Introduction to Deep Neural Networks (DNNs): free Pilot-UKAIFA training. Tuesday 27 October 2026, Edinburgh Places are still available on this one-day, in-person course. Registration closes 22 October. See edin.ac/3UCi7Bt

Connect with EIDF in 2027! Registration is now open for our next series of events: find out what's new with our world-class private research cloud infrastructure, be inspired by live projects, and put your questions to our team. edin.ac/4i8tyJ2

A major software advance could aid the creation of bigger, more reliable quantum computers, a study suggests. Read more on our website: edin.ac/4in6zLq

There are still places available on this SEAVEA Software Hands-on Workshop with EPCC's Gavin Pringle. See below for details and registration link. 👇👇👇

Attending New Scientist Live today? Look out for the EPCC team at Stand L45! We have lots of fun activities to introduce you to the benefits and principles of supercomputing, from logic puzzles to a virtual reality tour of the UK's National Supercomputer, ARCHER2. Hope to meet you there!

We recently hosted the BBC World Service’s Tech Life team at the Advanced Computing Facility. Listen to the show to hear EPCC Director Mark Parsons talk about supercomputing and our preparations for hosting the UK's Next National Supercomputer. edin.ac/4rTjlEB

The Edinburgh International Data Facility provided the secure HPC required by Dr Prasun Dutta and colleagues at Oxford University to analyse 3.7 trillion bases of sensitive genomic data. Read more about this vital research into rare disease cases: edin.ac/4dLJRdt

Focus group: How can digital Research Technical Professionals (dRTPs) help drive environmental sustainability in digital research? 17 November 2026, 10am–4pm Bayes Centre, University of Edinburgh, in-person only discourse-network.github.io/events/20261...

EPCC colleagues recently attended the EuroHPC JU User Days 2026 in Dublin to share the progress being made through Pilot-UKAIFA and its collaboration with HammerHAI, Germany‘s AI Factory for manufacturing, engineering & research. edin.ac/3VyyAqr

The CAKE project facilitates knowledge exchange (KE) & sustainable collaboration across UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities. CAKE seeks KE Fellows to champion and enable KE for a part of the DRI community. Apply by 12 Nov 2026. Full details: edin.ac/4iZLYh5

This free online ARCHER2 course is designed to help researchers update their skills and adopt current best practices. It focuses on core language concepts to provide the skills and confidence needed to navigate the broader C++ ecosystem. Full details & registration: edin.ac/4rHozTZ

October's ARCHER2 calendar image shows the instantaneous swirling 3D vortices generated by the Imperial Front Wing (IFW), a benchmark Formula 1 geometry based on the McLaren MP4-17D race car. Image created by Mr Parv Khurana, Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London. edin.ac/47t0sip

We were recently honoured to welcome The Rt Hon Kanishka Narayan MP and University of Edinburgh Provost Kim Graham to the Advanced Computing Facility, which will host the UK’s Next National Supercomputer. Progress on the project was marked with a commemorative steel signing. edin.ac/4z4J8fh

Building Trustworthy Simulations on Cirrus: SEAVEA Software Hands-on Workshop Edinburgh, 22-23 October, 2026 Free to attend. Workflow automation & model reliability testing help build confidence in simulation outputs - the SEAVEA Toolkit provides the required software tools. edin.ac/3T5xfGZ

EPCC PhD student Jake Davies is investigating whether existing programming models can run on custom hardware architectures performantly, attaining high performance and code portability across accelerators. edin.ac/4xDBlUI

This month's EIDF drop-in covered AI-driven climate science, automated archives and smarter GPU jobs. For a full recording of the event and to read more about it, see: edin.ac/3ThwLxq

Through Pilot, the UK AI Factory Antenna, EPCC is again working closely with @hlrs-hpc.bsky.social , Germany's first national supercomputing centre. Read more in André de Araújo Vieira's article on our website: edin.ac/3VBXG7H

Understanding the scale of emissions from different sources is critical to working in a more environmentally sustainable way. This lesson will give attendees the ability to understand and quantify emissions arising from the use of HPC systems. edin.ac/4j6tmvN

Mathematical problem-solving can be challenging for many children. A Duolingo dissertation grant will support research by a team at the University of Edinburgh into AI-generated mathematical storytelling. Read more on our website: edin.ac/3Ts08x3

Pilot-UKAIFA supports UK-based organisations to implement AI. EPCC experts can work alongside your company to assist the development of an AI solution to unlock your processes, enhance your service or assist on daily tasks. Register interest: edin.ac/3STZsjS Find out more: www.ukaifa.ai

EIDF at EPCC provides flexible compute and storage, backed up by EPCC expertise. Learn how EIDF supports our users' aims - and put your questions to our experts - at the next EIDF Drop-In (16 Sep, online): edin.ac/4xfSq6S

Free webinar. EPCC has been working closely with the Institute of GeoEnergy Engineering at Heriot-Watt University on the GeoChemFoam project, and we recently we made GeoChemFoam v5.2 available on ARCHER2. Join this webinar to learn what GeoChemFoam can do: edin.ac/4qWZiVt

Free ARCHER2 training course. Python is a general purpose programming language that is useful for writing scripts to work effectively and reproducibly with data. Join this free online course to learn more: edin.ac/4icqrBw

Attending AICatalyst2026 tomorrow? Look out for EPCC's Evgenij Belikov, who will present 'A whirlwind tour of the FAIR principles' at 13:30. Full programme at edin.ac/4qSRqUU

For 15 years, the Software Sustainability Institute has worked to make research software more sustainable and properly recognised. Its aims remain the same, but the name has changed to the Institute for Research Software. Read more: edin.ac/45X3WsV

TEAS is a new AI benchmark that maps the true cost, performance & trade-offs of agentic AI across diverse hardware. Developed by the University of Edinburgh, EPCC & Imperial College London, TEAS shifts the industry focus towards a comprehensive 'hardware suitability map'. edin.ac/4yisw3E

DEADLINE EXTENDED. Does the UK National Supercomputing Service contribute to your research? You could be a winner! Users of ARCHER2 now have until Sunday 20 September to enter the ARCHER2 Image and Video Competition. Full details at edin.ac/472CLfx

EPCC offers a range of PhD opportunities designed to prepare the next generation of researchers and industry leaders. Subject areas include HPC, computational science, data science, and software sustainability. Read more and meet some of our students at edin.ac/3Wk7h0q

This summer we welcomed 15 undergraduate students to the second EPCC HPC Summer School. EPCC's David Henty and Catherine Inglis review our successful two-week programme: edin.ac/4xqlCcz

The ARCHER2 Image and Video Competition is open to all users of the UK National Supercomputer to share their images or videos of “ARCHER2 Enabling Research”. Deadline for submissions: 4 September 2026. edin.ac/472CLfx

Catherine Heymans, Scotland's Astronomer Royal, paid a visit to the Advanced Computing Facility yesterday. Catherine is shown here with Tursa, the GPU-based Extreme Scaling component of the DiRAC facility. You can read about Tursa at edin.ac/43wYavu

Julien Maes (Heriot-Watt University), Hannah Menke (Heriot-Watt University) and Gavin Pringle (EPCC) will deliver this ARCHER2 training course. No previous experience with GeoChemFoam is required. Register at edin.ac/3UcjvKB.

Pilot-UKAIFA, the UK AI Factory Antenna, offers training, consultancy and Infrastructure on artificial intelligence for organisations, working in partnership with @hammerhai-eu.bsky.social, the AI Factory based in Stuttgart. For more information and to register interest, go to: www.ukaifa.ai

Is quantum HPC achievable? EPCC Chancellor's Fellow Oliver Brown considers the options in his article: edin.ac/4zsU5IA

The CAKE NetworkPlus facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK DRI communities. To follow its activies, join the CAKE Slack workspace and mailing list: edin.ac/4w11cFY

Learn from the experts! Register now for this in-person one-day exploration of AI, its strengths, limitations and benefits. 9:30am–4:30pm, 21 August, Bayes Centre, central Edinburgh. edin.ac/4wwxYOU

EPCC Chancellor's Fellow Rosa Filgueira presents a tiny tutorial to examine how we might move from distributed computation to distributed, adaptive agentic coordination. She also considers where a language model might genuinely add something useful. edin.ac/3TMdfsS

There's still time to sign up for this two-day ARCHER2 Carpentry course, to be delivered by EPCC's Evgenij Belikov. Full details and registration: edin.ac/4fWSnYl

WHPC Rising Stars offers early-careers support to present your work at #SC26, receive mentorship, grow your network, and be considered for up to £3,000 in travel support. Submissions are invited from across the HPC community. Deadline: 14 August 2026. edin.ac/4wywjIQ

If you work in a company that carries out its own research, partner with academia, or support research with your products, the EU @eosc-everse.bsky.social project needs your input. Help shape its recommendations to reflect industry needs by completing this short survey: edin.ac/3UnyNfq

In his post below, Prasun Dutta, PhD (Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford) describes research into rare diseases that was supported by the Edinburgh International Data Facility, which is operated by EPCC.

Pilot-UKAIFA, the UK AI Factory Antenna, offers training, consultancy and Infrastructure for organisations, working in partnership with @hammerhai-eu.bsky.social in Stuttgart. Learn more at: edin.ac/4goYQun

AIMDay Data, Digital and AI will bring together industry and experts in Edinburgh on 10 Sep. Participants will include EPCC's Commercial Manager Julien Sindt. Sign up if you have a business challenge to explore, or want to learn what industry is looking for! Register by 26 Aug at edin.ac/45KitI4

EPCC joined this year's prestigious Royal Society Summer Show with a series of fun activities on the theme of 'Supercomputing: the good, the bad and the beautiful'. Read Kyro Hartzenberg's report about her experience of introducing supercomputing to hundreds of engaged visitors. edin.ac/4yVoajS

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have used the Cirrus service - operated by EPCC - to help develop a new theoretical framework that could help address the challenge of energy use by computers and data centres. Read more at edin.ac/3TB1NQG

The ARCHER2 calendar image for August is "Spontaneous rolling of brine droplets on the PAH-covered hydrate surface" by Dr Anh Phan, Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Surrey. For full details, see: edin.ac/4xgBvSe

Pilot-UKAIFA at EPCC presents this one-day introduction to AI. Free to attend, it will be led by EPCC's Adam Carter, with colleagues from the Pilot-UKAIFA training team. Register by 17 August 2026 at edin.ac/3U6gPxR