Edinburgh Napier University has launched a new HPC and AI cluster, the Edinburgh Napier University Compute Cluster (ENUCC), at its Merchiston campus.
Housed at the Jack Kilby Computing Centre, the system has been built and managed by Alces Flight – a UK-based team that specializes in HPC software for scientists, engineers, and researchers – alongside the team at the School of Computing, Engineering, and the Built Environment (SCEBE).
The ENUCC cluster includes the latest Dell EMC hardware and features AMD Epyc 3 compute and high-memory nodes and Nvidia A100 GPUs. A high-performance Lustre NVME scratch storage tier is also included, with DellEMC PowerScale long-term storage. No information has been provided about the system’s overall compute power.
The cluster will be made available to Edinburgh Napier students and researchers and the SCEBE has developed a boot camp for those who are interested in using ENUCC for their research.
Speaking in November, Professor Nick Antonopoulos, vice principal for research and innovation and the university’s information services department, said: “This launch marks a significant milestone, and maintains Edinburgh Napier’s track record of offering direct, hands-on research opportunities. By providing centralized access to advanced computing resources, we hope ENUCC will foster innovation, encourage interdisciplinary collaboration, and nurture the talents of the next generation of researchers.”
Edinburgh Napier University is named after John Napier, a 16th-century mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who, amongst other things, introduced the decimal point into common usage.
