Adrian Jackson

Adrian Jackson

@adrianjhpc.bsky.social

HPC/Parallel Programmer, Research of dubious talents, Opinionated Fool, Software Gardener, work at EPCC, aiming to avoid the rabbit of negative euphoria

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We report cost, accuracy, performance (both user experience and system output), and energy estimates. Accuracy confirms run validity and can reveal the available trade-offs between all these metrics.

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Current results cover NVIDIA A100, H100, H200, B200, B300 and DGX Spark, plus AMD MI355X. Tenstorrent Blackhole and Cerebras CS-3 performance results are currently available for single-turn, single-query runs.

The benchmark uses each dataset's natural lengths. That means we have to handle chunked prefill, refusals, and steps that mix prefill with decode. This avoids the distorting effects of fixed-length measurements and allows us to capture real sparse activations and bandwidth utilisation.

TEAS 🍵 identifies workloads with different profiles and bottlenecks (prefill, decode, tool use), as well as user choices (stack, batch regime, budget). It highlights the strengths of each accelerator and software stack in different scenarios rather than providing a one-dimensional ranking.

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Learn from the experts! Register now for this in-person one-day exploration of AI, its strengths, limitations and benefits. 9:30am–4:30pm, 21 August, Bayes Centre, central Edinburgh. edin.ac/4wwxYOU

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TeamEPCC are setting up their cluster in preparation for the start of the #ISC26 Student Cluster Competition tomorrow.

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"Talking supercomputers, we have been working on this for a long time here in Edinburgh", Professor Adrian Jackson, EPCC at State of Open Con 2026 on the road, Edinburgh 5 June. #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk #openhq #aiscotland #AI #aimodels #aiagents

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State Of Open Con is coming to Edinburgh this Friday! There's a pretty amazing speaker lineup (and then there's me, but you can't have everything), so please do come join us. Free tickets are available for community, students and anyone in-between jobs. stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-so...

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One week to go to State of Open Con on the Road, Edinburgh. The perfect opportunity to learn about AI and open source from world-leading experts. See the speakers, schedule and get tickets at stateofopencon.com/edinburgh-so... #opensource #AI #opensourceai #aiskills #stateofopencon #soocon26 #openuk

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Fully-funded EPCC PhD: investigate the potential of novel accelerators. Run in collaboration with AWE, who will provide real world mini-applications and algorithms of genuine scientific interest. Applicants must be UK nationals. Apply by 28 May 2026. Read more at: edin.ac/4979QJO

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ExaGEO-funded PhD opportunity available at EPCC for one home-fees eligible student. Choose from a project in the field of large-scale flood forecasting models or weather & climate simulation codes. Start Sep 2026. edin.ac/4v4sifD

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UKRI is investing £76m to boost compute and AI across the UK. EPCC at the University of Edinburgh will expand the Cirrus supercomputer and link it to the new national system, accelerating research from astronomy to healthcare and environmental science: www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happen...

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Batool Almarzouq joined EPCC and the Software Sustainability Institute as a UKRI-funded AI Metascience Fellow in January. As she discusses in this article, her work will explore how AI is shaping disruptive science and influencing scientific norms. edin.ac/3MKUK4N

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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

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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. edin.ac/4oWIB9Q

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EPCC's refreshed Cirrus service for academia and industry has launched! It offers new resources for CPU-based HPC use and increases the flexibility of the service. There are now more ways to interact with Cirrus too. Read more in Andy Turner's article: edin.ac/4pwKPhq

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Many congratulations to my @epcc.bsky.social PhD student Mark Klaisoongnoen who passed his PhD viva today! Exploring accelerating financial workloads on #FPGAs, Mark researched techniques for improving performance & energy efficiency. The U280 was a prop only, he doesn't get to keep it ;)

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EPCC and the High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS) have signed a formal memorandum of understanding that will enable closer collaboration between the two national supercomputing centres on a wide range of HPC topics. edin.ac/4raUvza

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Meet Wee Archie, EPCC's mini supercomputer (and friends)!

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Found something last night at the @epcc.bsky.social booth during the #SC25 gala that @jeffgeerling.com might like. Not quite a mini-rack, but there’s blinken lights!

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CSC is organizing a Digital Twin seminar around the theme climate, biodiversity and Earth Systems on 11.11. 📍 The seminar will be held at CSC’s premises in Espoo and is free of charge 🗓️ Registration is open until 25.10. (in-person) and 4.11. (online) Read more and register 🔗 csc.fi/en/event/dig...