2025 made EPCC the UK’s first designated National Supercomputing Centre, putting the University of Edinburgh unit at the center of the government’s Compute Roadmap for AI and high-performance computing.
€10 million in joint EU-UK funding is extending that role through the Pilot UK AI Factory Antenna, which links UK organizations to European AI compute, data and skills networks.
28 petaflops of ARCHER2 capacity and a 5,860-node HPE Cray EX system anchor EPCC’s national infrastructure, which the center says generated more than £4.2 billion in UK economic benefit over five years.
£19.5 million from UKRI will more than double the new 256-node Cirrus system by late 2026, while EPCC also runs the Edinburgh International Data Facility and hosts Europe’s largest research deployment of Cerebras CS-3.
Founded in 1990, EPCC is now positioning itself to host the next national supercomputing service after ARCHER2 while expanding industry partnerships, training and applied AI adoption across the UK.
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