Nick Brown
@nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social
Senior Research Fellow @epcc.bsky.social, University of Edinburgh. Interested in novel architectures, HPC, FPGAs, RISC-V, programming language design and LLVM & MLIR.
It's going to be great catching up with lots of #HPC people next week at #SC25 . #Supercomputing is always a busy week, I wrote up some of the activities I am involved in www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happen...
November 12, 2025 at 10:16 AM
It's going to be great catching up with lots of #HPC people next week at #SC25 . #Supercomputing is always a busy week, I wrote up some of the activities I am involved in www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happen...
The dev zone at #RISCVSummit was crammed full of interesting things and very popular this week, here I chat to Austin @riscv.org.web.brid.gy about the #HPC #RISCV demo we had brought from @epcc.bsky.social . Thanks to Carl for providing the hardware and installing things!
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
The dev zone at #RISCVSummit was crammed full of interesting things and very popular this week, here I chat to Austin @riscv.org.web.brid.gy about the #HPC #RISCV demo we had brought from @epcc.bsky.social . Thanks to Carl for providing the hardware and installing things!
Had a great time at the #RISCVSummit 2025, thanks very much to @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invitation to give a keynote about #RISCV in #HPC, was an honour and I also very much enjoyed being a panelist at the #Google breakfast and presenting #HPC #RISCV updates during the member's day
October 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Had a great time at the #RISCVSummit 2025, thanks very much to @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invitation to give a keynote about #RISCV in #HPC, was an honour and I also very much enjoyed being a panelist at the #Google breakfast and presenting #HPC #RISCV updates during the member's day
Was great fun teaching the @tenstorrent.bsky.social tutorial at @ieeexplore.bsky.social #CLUSTER with @fclc.bsky.social this week. And thanks Owain Kenway for finding (and fixing!) the bugs in the practical exercises ;) Great to introduce the architecture to new people!
September 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Was great fun teaching the @tenstorrent.bsky.social tutorial at @ieeexplore.bsky.social #CLUSTER with @fclc.bsky.social this week. And thanks Owain Kenway for finding (and fixing!) the bugs in the practical exercises ;) Great to introduce the architecture to new people!
@riscv.org.web.brid.gy for #HPC workshop at #SC25 will be held on Monday 17th November in St Louis. The paper deadline has been extended until 15th of August, accepting both full papers and work in progress. edin.ac/3Uyeclp
July 29, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@riscv.org.web.brid.gy for #HPC workshop at #SC25 will be held on Monday 17th November in St Louis. The paper deadline has been extended until 15th of August, accepting both full papers and work in progress. edin.ac/3Uyeclp
@paulbcfd.bsky.social , #CFD expert @epcc.bsky.social presents ASiMoV-CCS at #PASC25 which is a new #CFD solver providing improved opportunities for running at scale. A great example of using modern #Fortran
June 18, 2025 at 10:06 AM
@paulbcfd.bsky.social , #CFD expert @epcc.bsky.social presents ASiMoV-CCS at #PASC25 which is a new #CFD solver providing improved opportunities for running at scale. A great example of using modern #Fortran
Weronika from @epcc.bsky.social talks in the sustainable training mini symposium at #PASC25 about some of the activities going on in @epcc.bsky.social , and specifically #UNIVERSE_HPC
June 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Weronika from @epcc.bsky.social talks in the sustainable training mini symposium at #PASC25 about some of the activities going on in @epcc.bsky.social , and specifically #UNIVERSE_HPC
#PASC25 mini symposium on sustainability continues with Thomas Hauser from @ncar-ucar.bsky.social talks about reducing energy usage and cost by improving efficiency of the #CISL data centre as part of #CONTINENTS
June 17, 2025 at 2:14 PM
#PASC25 mini symposium on sustainability continues with Thomas Hauser from @ncar-ucar.bsky.social talks about reducing energy usage and cost by improving efficiency of the #CISL data centre as part of #CONTINENTS
"We are facing a revolution in climate science driven by limits in Denard scaling similar to Von Neumann in the 50s". Ioana Colfescu from @ncas-uk.bsky.social talks about using #AI for climate science at #PASC25 as part of #CONTINENTS
June 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"We are facing a revolution in climate science driven by limits in Denard scaling similar to Von Neumann in the 50s". Ioana Colfescu from @ncas-uk.bsky.social talks about using #AI for climate science at #PASC25 as part of #CONTINENTS
Just Zarins from @epcc.bsky.social kicks off a mini symposium at #PASC25 on sustainability, talking about porting the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social shallow wave equation model to the @cerebrassystems.bsky.social #CS3
June 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Just Zarins from @epcc.bsky.social kicks off a mini symposium at #PASC25 on sustainability, talking about porting the @ncar-ucar.bsky.social shallow wave equation model to the @cerebrassystems.bsky.social #CS3
@micheleweiland.bsky.social talks about sustainable supercomputing @epcc.bsky.social , including clock frequency on #ARCHER2, malleable jobs, novel hardware and teaching. At #PASC25, more details on our @cerebrassystems.bsky.social systems tomorrow afternoon by Justs as part of #CONTINENTS
June 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
@micheleweiland.bsky.social talks about sustainable supercomputing @epcc.bsky.social , including clock frequency on #ARCHER2, malleable jobs, novel hardware and teaching. At #PASC25, more details on our @cerebrassystems.bsky.social systems tomorrow afternoon by Justs as part of #CONTINENTS
Jake Davies, one of my PhD students @epcc.bsky.social presents our work on accererating #FFT on @tenstorrent.bsky.social #wormhole at @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for #HPC . #wormhole is around three times more energy efficient than a 24-core Xeon Platinum and I think we can push this even further
June 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Jake Davies, one of my PhD students @epcc.bsky.social presents our work on accererating #FFT on @tenstorrent.bsky.social #wormhole at @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for #HPC . #wormhole is around three times more energy efficient than a 24-core Xeon Platinum and I think we can push this even further
Andrea Gallo, CEO of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy kicks off the #RISCV for #HPC workshop at #ISC25, highlighting the importance of openness and some predictions around the popularity of the standard into the future
June 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Andrea Gallo, CEO of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy kicks off the #RISCV for #HPC workshop at #ISC25, highlighting the importance of openness and some predictions around the popularity of the standard into the future
Fun presenting with @fclc.bsky.social at #ISC this week, at the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy BoF and then today at the democratising #AI accelerators for #HPC . #RISCV continues with a workshop Friday afternoon, kicked off with keynote from @riscv.org.web.brid.gy CEO. riscv.epcc.ed.ac.uk/community/work…
June 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Fun presenting with @fclc.bsky.social at #ISC this week, at the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy BoF and then today at the democratising #AI accelerators for #HPC . #RISCV continues with a workshop Friday afternoon, kicked off with keynote from @riscv.org.web.brid.gy CEO. riscv.epcc.ed.ac.uk/community/work…
It's been lots of fun in @epcc.bsky.social working with Tim and @tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social on this #eCSE project undertaking automatic kernel generation for #ExaHyPE using #mlir
June 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
It's been lots of fun in @epcc.bsky.social working with Tim and @tobiasweinzierl.bsky.social on this #eCSE project undertaking automatic kernel generation for #ExaHyPE using #mlir
Interesting talk at #RISCVSummitEurope by @asbradbury.org about vectorisation challenges and improvements in LLVM. Some impressive performance results based on recent work
May 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Interesting talk at #RISCVSummitEurope by @asbradbury.org about vectorisation challenges and improvements in LLVM. Some impressive performance results based on recent work
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social are aiming for an exascale European #RISCV #supercomputer by 2030 at #RISCVSummitEurope
May 14, 2025 at 1:00 PM
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social are aiming for an exascale European #RISCV #supercomputer by 2030 at #RISCVSummitEurope
#RISCVSummitEurope has been great so far, and I am looking forward this afternoon talking about why and how #RISCV can play an important part in #HPC
May 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
#RISCVSummitEurope has been great so far, and I am looking forward this afternoon talking about why and how #RISCV can play an important part in #HPC
Wei-Han Lien chief architect at @tenstorrent.bsky.social highlights we are in a golden era of silicon design driven by open hardware at #RISCVSummitEurope. Exciting look at their Ascalon @riscv.org.web.brid.gy CPU and future roadmap. Great to chat with the @tenstorrent.bsky.social team this week.
May 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Wei-Han Lien chief architect at @tenstorrent.bsky.social highlights we are in a golden era of silicon design driven by open hardware at #RISCVSummitEurope. Exciting look at their Ascalon @riscv.org.web.brid.gy CPU and future roadmap. Great to chat with the @tenstorrent.bsky.social team this week.
Andrea Gallo, CEO of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy kicks off #RISCVSummitEurope , great to see #HPC mentioned and some of the activities in Europe highlighted, along with the #riscv ecosystem labs programme that @epcc.bsky.social is member of with our #HPC testbed
May 13, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Andrea Gallo, CEO of @riscv.org.web.brid.gy kicks off #RISCVSummitEurope , great to see #HPC mentioned and some of the activities in Europe highlighted, along with the #riscv ecosystem labs programme that @epcc.bsky.social is member of with our #HPC testbed
A great first day at #RISCVSummitEurope , thanks to everyone who came to the #HPC #SIG meeting this morning. It was a busy session discussing our activities and gaining feedback and views on recommendations from the gap analysis that has been conducted.
May 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
A great first day at #RISCVSummitEurope , thanks to everyone who came to the #HPC #SIG meeting this morning. It was a busy session discussing our activities and gaining feedback and views on recommendations from the gap analysis that has been conducted.
@epcc.bsky.social 's Juan Herrera has been on the #CUG board for the past two years and he's been doing some great work, this week he is standing for reelection at #CUG2025 - good luck!
May 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
@epcc.bsky.social 's Juan Herrera has been on the #CUG board for the past two years and he's been doing some great work, this week he is standing for reelection at #CUG2025 - good luck!
It's great to be in New York this week for #CUG2025, an interesting program ahead this week and I am looking forward to talking about @riscv.org.web.brid.gy in #HPC tomorrow
May 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
It's great to be in New York this week for #CUG2025, an interesting program ahead this week and I am looking forward to talking about @riscv.org.web.brid.gy in #HPC tomorrow
Thanks to @tenstorrent.bsky.social for a great #DevDay today, was really great to hear about all the exciting things happening with the technology and a peak at what's to come, as well as an opportunity to share our own work porting #HPC kernels and #Fortran compiler
April 4, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Thanks to @tenstorrent.bsky.social for a great #DevDay today, was really great to hear about all the exciting things happening with the technology and a peak at what's to come, as well as an opportunity to share our own work porting #HPC kernels and #Fortran compiler
Thanks to @fclc.bsky.social for hosting us at @tenstorrent.bsky.social Bay area office this week. Some great progress working with @tenstorrent.bsky.social engineers, making our FFT kernel around three times faster on the Wormhole and lots of progress on our Fortran compilation flow to TT Metal
March 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Thanks to @fclc.bsky.social for hosting us at @tenstorrent.bsky.social Bay area office this week. Some great progress working with @tenstorrent.bsky.social engineers, making our FFT kernel around three times faster on the Wormhole and lots of progress on our Fortran compilation flow to TT Metal