Nick Brown
@NickBrownHPC
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Senior Research Fellow @EPCCed, University of Edinburgh. Interested in novel architectures, HPC, FPGAs, RISC-V, programming language design and LLVM & MLIR.
Edinburgh, UK
Joined August 2020
My PhD student Gabriel had a busy time at #SC25 , 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 PhD student Gabriel Rodríguez Canal attended #SC25 in St Louis, USA, as a Student Volunteer. His experiences included chairing a workshop session & presenting his research. Read Gabriel's review of his trip & the benefits of this event: https://t.co/2XZLgJr4PG
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We have lots of exciting #HPC and #AI activities going on in @EPCCed , with a whole load to kick off in 2026. Come join us!
EPCC is hiring! We have the following vacancies: Collaboration Manager https://t.co/gJPGQAUKGr Applications Developers https://t.co/u4EQst7OEk Closing date for both posts is 14 January 2026.
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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.
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Thanks to @kieranleach for doing a great tour of the @EPCCed #ACF facility for @plessl from @pc2_upb and Steven from @YorkUniversity. I always learn a lot myself from listening to these, and it was great to see the new #Cirrus supercomputer on it's first day of service!
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@EPCCed are heavily involved in several #DRI programme projects, the team are at #CIUK25 this week highlighting them and describing latest outcomes
#DRI network-plus session at #CIUK25 describing #DRI projects and a panel discussion, then followed by a breakout session this afternoon exploring activities in more detail https://t.co/36p4y0yX3O
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Come along to the NetworkPlus session on the main stage at #CIUK2025 right now to learn about the various DRI projects with flexibel funds - there might be just the opportunity waiting to fund your next idea!
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The @EPCCed #CIUK25 team let their hair down at the networking reception. A special congratulations to Juan Rodriguez Herrera who is celebrating 10 years working at @EPCCed this week! Come speak to us at the @ARCHER2_HPC and @ukexascale booths this week
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Very cool, a home made Motorola 68k system on breadboard with 512KB of RAM and booting Linux from ROM. Hooked up and specialised by Jeremy Cohen from Imperial based on design by Steve Chamberlin. Running Linux to play Colossal Cave Adventure
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A busy #CIUK25 so far, although it always seems to rain in Manchester!
Attending #CIUK25? Our colleagues are looking forward to meeting you! Find us at the stands for @ARCHER2_HPC -Cirrus and the CAKE Network Plus. EPCC at #CIUK2025: https://t.co/IJyWgXPMvF
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Our team are on their way to Manchester today to prepare for #CIUK2025. If you're attending, drop by the @ARCHER2_HPC & Cirrus stand. You'll also find us at the stand of the CAKE Network + and active across the programme: https://t.co/IJyWgXPMvF
#CIUK25
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I predicted in my keynote at @risc_v North America #summit last month that 2026 could be a watershed year for #RISCV in #HPC . Based on the announcements from hardware vendors, momentum we see building and all the cool things people are doing. More info at
The #RISCV community & associated technologies are growing rapidly, for example EPCC hosts an HPC RISC-V testbed system. Nick Brown reviews his contributions to the discussion around RISC-V for HPC at the RISC-V North America Summit: https://t.co/NmfjVzEHHn
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Thanks @geerlingguy for featuring Wee Archie, our mini-version of the @ARCHER2_HPC national UK supercomputer, in your #SC25 summary video. In @EPCCed we had a busy week of lots of interesting conversations and activities in St. Louis!
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🎂 🍰 CAKE is searching for Knowledge Exchange (KE) fellows who will champion knowledge exchange for the Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) community. The deadline for applications is November 30. https://t.co/3JNeoFWMAv
#knowledgeexchange #ukdri #RTP #dRTP
cake.ac.uk
The CAKE Network+ facilitates knowledge exchange and sustainable collaboration across the UK Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) communities.
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Fantastic @EPCCed #SC25 booth as always, thanks @adrianjhpc for all your hard work every year making it happen!
Still waiting for the crates to be returned, but that's the @EPCCed #SC25 stand packed up for another year
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Well-done to my PhD student Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal @EPCCed who gave a great talk about our work support Fortran intrinsics on @AMDembedded #AIEs at #SC25 #H2RC. The first step in #AIE Fortran support. https://t.co/8izoMv2VZC
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Fascinating talk by Ilan Tayari from @NextSilicon at #SC25 #H2RC about Maverick 2. Based on dataflow help solving the issue with traditional architectures around (very) low ALU occupancy, their architecture will move #HPC away from Von Neumann architecture
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