Quantum Computing Without A Quantum Computer: online talk, Wednesday 18 February, 15:00–16:00. Join Oliver Brown, EPCC Quantum Group lead, for an introduction to quantum computing, followed by a discussion about how HPC facilities like ARCHER2 can emulate quantum computers. edin.ac/40e6bF3

2026 EPCC Summer School in HPC: apply now! Programme comprises hands-on practical training & the opportunity to apply new skills in a real-world context. The School will run from 13 June–27 June 2026 in Edinburgh, UK. Applications close 16 March. edin.ac/4bRlz1s

The 2026 International RSE Survey is now live! This survey will help us better understand what RSEs need and how we can advocate for the community with policymakers and funders. We'd really appreciate your input. Please share with your networks. #RSEng www.software.ac.uk/news/2026-in...

📢 The Library Carpentry Curriculum Advisory Committee is calling for instructors to run pilot workshops for 14 lessons currently in Alpha status. To move them toward Beta and then adoption as Library Carpentry lessons, they need the Carpentries community to test the lessons in real-world settings. 🙏

ARCHER2 Workshop: Green software use on HPC. EPCC's Andrew Turner will introduce environmental sustainability principles in the context of HPC systems. (26 Feb 2026, The Alan Turing Institute, British Library, London.) edin.ac/3MCzYnR

We look forward to working with the newly launched global Quantum Software Alliance, which will highlight the critical role of quantum software & applications. edin.ac/4cmaPbn

"Equity, Diversity, Inclusivity & Accessibility in Research Software Engineering". In this article the SSI's InclusiveRSE team discuss their research and offer the approaches they believe most likely to improve equity in RSE and STEM. edin.ac/4bJCuCW

The Research Software Maintenance Fund can support & maintain existing research software and sustain a team responsible for multiple software tools. Info webinars: - General info: 11 Feb - Humanities & Social Sciences webinar: 17 Feb Details via: edin.ac/3M9hriUon

ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026: poster abstract submission deadline extended to Thursday 12th February. Posters should demonstrate work on ARCHER2, showcasing the science outcomes and impact achieved. Full details: edin.ac/3NQ0GtB

Green Software Use on HPC Workshop: 26 February, London. This workshop, taught by EPCC's Andrew Turner, introduces environmental sustainability principles in the context of HPC systems. edin.ac/3NUyfe4

Deadline approaching! Poster abstracts for the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026 must be submitted by this Thursday, 5 Feb, 2026. Posters should demonstrate your work on ARCHER2, showcasing impact achieved using the UK National Supercomputing Service. edin.ac/4a50W0f

The ARCHER2 calendar image for February is "Lattice Boltzmann modelling of droplet equatorial streaming in an electric field" by Dr Geng Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College London. Read about the science behind Dr Wang's image on the ARCHER2 website: edin.ac/3NPLKeU

Looking for funding opportunities across UK DRI? A range of resources and funding schemes are currently available to support activities and projects. Explore what’s on offer by visiting the website of CAKE, the Computational Abilities Knowledge ExchangeNetwork+ : cake.ac.uk/funds/

Excited our paper on stencil compiler for @cerebrassystems.bsky.social #WSE has been accepted to ASPLOS . Using MLIR, without any code changes across three frontends we have highly competative performance against manually written code and around 14x performance of 128 A100 GPUs.

Raising programmer productivity for stencil-based workloads on Cerebras WSE. Paper to be published at ASPLOS’26 shows how the scientific community can increase capability while maintaining programmer productivity with Cerebras’ Wafer Scale Engine. edin.ac/4qNCRBf

The call for Expressions of Interest for Round 2 of the Research Software Maintenance Fund is open until 25 February 2026, 16:00 GMT. The fund supports projects that improve sustainability, reduce technical debt, and enhance community engagement. Don't miss out! edin.ac/4k1Uf2l

ScotRSE is building a network of Research Software Engineers across Scotland. The first in-person meeting of the group will take place in Dundee on February 23, 2026. Read more in Kirsty Pringle's article on our website: edin.ac/4q1FTRa

🌊 We are happy to announce that our second Collaborations Workshop 2026 keynote will be delivered by Eleanor Broadway, Architect at @epcc.bsky.social and co-I for the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange (CAKE). Find out more at www.software.ac.uk/news/eleanor...

Mentoring programme 2026 Please join us this Thursday or Friday for a couple of short briefing sessions/FAQs before the application deadline closes on 3rd Feb. - 2026-01-29: 4PM GMT - 2026-01-30: 1PM GMT Meeting links and more info can also be found on our website: society-rse.org/get-involved...

ARCHER2 training: GPU programming with kernels. 25–27 Feb 2026. Delivered by EPCC's Juan Herrera. This course, which will provide an introduction to GPU computing with HIP, is aimed at scientific application programmers wishing to develop their own software. edin.ac/3NDdHqe

Two scholarships are available for our MSc in HPC programmes 2026/2027. Apply for our John Fisher Scholarships, each worth up to £16000, before March 2, 2026. Read more in this article by EPCC's David Henty: edin.ac/4qv1hPE

ARCHER2 training: Data Analysis & Visualisation in Python (23–24 Feb). Python is a general-purpose programming language that is useful for writing scripts to work effectively & reproducibly with data. This course requires no programming experience. edin.ac/4sTLPhI

Deadline approaching! Poster abstracts for the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026 must be submitted by Feb 5. Posters should demonstrate your work on ARCHER2, showcasing science outcomes & impact achieved using the UK National Supercomputing Service. Full details & submission form: edin.ac/4a50W0f

The RSE Survey enables national associations, funders, policymakers & others to understand the Research Software Engineering community. If you develop software for academic research, you can support the RSE community by completing the 2026 International survey. Closes 20 March 2026. edin.ac/49x1ax7

Championing Green Digital Research workshop: 18 March 2026, Edinburgh, UK. This workshop will focus on how researchers & related tech professionals can understand & reduce the emissions associated with their research. This event is Day 0 of the ARCHER2 Celebration of Science 2026. edin.ac/3NBm9pL

Durham HPC Days 2026: registration and submissions now open! This annual event brings together researchers, developers, and practitioners to share ideas and explore the latest developments in our field. Session submission deadline: 31 January 2026. edin.ac/4jKM6zo

There's just one week left to submit to the Women in HPC Poster Programme for #ISC26! Discover how a WHPC Poster Presenter made the most of ISC 2025 - and how you can take part: edin.ac/4b0RXye

Looking for a new challenge? We currently have PhD opportunities in the areas of HPC, AI, software sustainability, and Exascale computing related to Earth and environmental sciences. Boost your career with EPCC! edin.ac/3Wk7h0q

The Software Sustainability Institute's Collaborations Workshop 2026 (CW26) will focus on the theme Strengthening the Research Software Community. Submissions for contributed mini-workshops, demos and lightning talks for CW26 will close on Friday 16 January. edin.ac/455XcJ6

Survey: Towards a federation of UK research computing resources. The National Federation of Compute Services seeks input from UK research data generators and service providers to explore the benefits of a federation of computing resources within the UK. Add your voice! edin.ac/4pAgpdh

Thinking of learning on-campus with EPCC? Join this event on 14 January for a general introduction to postgraduate study at Edinburgh: edin.ac/44Kl4Sg EPCC is a leading provider of HPC and data science education and training in Europe. See our website for details: edin.ac/3Uwy1sL

EPCC is hiring! We have the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager for the UK AI Factory Antenna Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4oZHnuw Applications Developers Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/491r4HA Applications Consultants Closes 15 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4j0dXeq

The CHARTED Flexible Fund supports the professional development of Digital Research Technical Professionals by funding their attendance of conferences, training courses & other events. First deadline: 15 January 2026. edin.ac/49ahcf0 Want to be a reviewer for future funding calls? edin.ac/4pFk0ac

Are you a Digital Research Technical Professional based in the UK? The CHARTED project is working to support dRTPs' professional development by building connections to training opportunities, skills & roles, and designing tools & frameworks to make the ecosystem easier to navigate: edin.ac/3Le1sj5

The 2026 MCC VASP Workshop (19–21 Jan) will bring together users, developers & HPC experts to discuss using VASP on UK HPC services. EPCC's Andy Turner will give an overview of carbon emission efficiency & VASP performance across EPCC HPC systems incl CPU & GPU-based services. edin.ac/4srjAGS

EPCC is hiring! We have the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager for the UK AI Factory Antenna Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4oZHnuw Applications Developers Closes 14 Jan 2026 edin.ac/491r4HA Applications Consultants Closes 15 Jan 2026 edin.ac/4j0dXeq

Data Carpentry workshop for data scientists: 22–23 January, Cardiff. This two-day workshop with EPCC's Evgenij Belikov will introduce computational skills for data management and analysis in all domains of research. edin.ac/3NuqGu3

Happy New Year, everyone! The ARCHER2 calendar image for January is "Formation of a Reverse Kármán Vortex Street in the Wake of a Morphing Wing" by Hibah Saddal & Chandan Bose, Dept Aerospace Engineering, University of Birmingham. Full caption: edin.ac/45AC2CY

EPCC and the University of Edinburgh will close today, returning on Monday 5 January 2026. We wish all our colleagues, students and friends a happy, peaceful holiday!

EPCC has the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager for the UK AI Factory Antenna Closes 14 Jan edin.ac/4oZHnuw Applications Developers Closes 14 Jan edin.ac/491r4HA Applications Consultants Closes 15 Jan edin.ac/4j0dXeq Join us at the UK's first National Supercomputing Centre!

The CHARTED Flexible Fund supports the professional development of digital Research Technical Professionals, enabling them to attend external opportunities such as conferences and training courses. Applications to the fund are now invited: edin.ac/49ahcf0

My PhD student Gabriel had a busy time at #SC25 and has written up his experiences, especially presenting a couple of papers leveraging #MLIR for #FPGAs. One at the LLVM workshop on a Fortran+OpenMP flow for #Xilinx #FPGAs and another at H2RC workshop on a Fortran intrinsics flow for AI engines

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.

EPCC PhD student Gabriel Rodríguez Canal attended #SC25 in St Louis, USA, as a Student Volunteer. His experiences included chairing a workshop session and presenting his research. Read Gabriel's review of his trip and the benefits of the event on our website: edin.ac/4rUGYMC

The Collaborations Workshop 2026 will take place from 28–30 April in Belfast (hybrid). This year's theme is strengthening the research software community. Join us! - Early bird registration closes 31 Dec. - Submissions for contributions close 16 Jan. edin.ac/3L7sB74

The @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social is calling for proposals to develop a #European Benchmarking Framework for #HPC & #Quantum Computing!  Help define metrics for performance, energy efficiency & more.  Submit your application before March 24, 2026.  Details: www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-l... 

📢 We are inviting our subcommunities to design their subcommunity's logo by modifying The Carpentries logo! This would be a wonderful way for our subcommunities to visually “brand” their identity and activities. 🌎 More information is outlined in our recent blog post: carpentries.org/blog/2025/12...

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

The Research Software Maintenance Fund supports projects that improve sustainability, reduce technical debt and enhance community engagement. A call for Expressions of Interest will open on 28 Jan 2026 for projects starting after Oct 2026. edin.ac/3YtRz3A

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