EPCC: High Performance Computing, Computational & Data Science, Software Engineering (Research)

EPCC (formerly the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) offers the opportunity to study for a PhD in areas related to:

• high-performance computing

• computational and data science

• software engineering and sustainability

• parallelism

Founded in 1990, EPCC is one of the leading supercomputing centres in Europe and a major provider of training in high-performance computing. EPCC’s expertise includes:

• advanced research

• technology transfer

• commercial consultancy

• the provision of supercomputing and data services to academia and business

EPCC hosts an exceptional collection of high-performance and novel computing facilities including, on behalf of UKRI, 'ARCHER2', the UK’s Tier-1 research supercomputer. Other systems include the Arm-based 'Fulhame' system as part of the Catalyst UK programme and the heterogeneous (CPU/GPU) 'Cirrus' system, a national Tier-2 HPC service. EPCC will also host, as part of the Edinburgh International Data Facility (EIDF), the first European deployment of a Cerebras CS-1 High Performance AI Computer.