Working with a number of key stakeholders and early adopters, EPCC is putting together the core elements of EIDF, including building its new home at our Advanced Computing Facility (ACF). Phase 1: Facility. EIDF will be housed in Computer Room 4 at the ACF, which is due for completion June 2020. This will be a high-resilience computer room with enhanced power and network. Phase 1: Storage. Currently with a 10 PB disk capacity split approximately equally between the safe haven and non-safe haven sides, this will rise to 12 PB by July 2020. Phase 1: Compute. A small slice of cloud with around 120 virtual machines plus 20 NVIDIA V100 GPUs and access to the Cirrus HPC service. Phase 1: Early adopters. As well as internal development work, we are working with a number of stakeholders to help shape the service: The iCAIRD digital pathology archive The National Collection of Aerial Photography Health Data Research-UK The Administrative Data Research Partnership The Paracrawl Internet Archive project Albyn Housing Society The NHS Scotland National Safe Haven Scottish Government Regional Local Authorities The Festival Fringe SAS Global Open Finance Centre of Excellence CityScope open data learning environment The Data Loch Subscribe to updates about the Edinburgh International Data Facility. Author Rob Baxter, EIDF Programme Manager August 2019 Image: @kellysikkema/unsplash
