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.
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It's our last day at #SC25!
@nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social and Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal will present their paper 'Programmer productivity and performance on AMD's AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study'.
Find them in 263-264 at 9:38am CST.
@nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social and Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal will present their paper 'Programmer productivity and performance on AMD's AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study'.
Find them in 263-264 at 9:38am CST.
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's our last day at #SC25!
@nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social and Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal will present their paper 'Programmer productivity and performance on AMD's AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study'.
Find them in 263-264 at 9:38am CST.
@nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social and Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal will present their paper 'Programmer productivity and performance on AMD's AI Engines: Offloading Fortran intrinsics via MLIR a case-study'.
Find them in 263-264 at 9:38am CST.
Well-done to my PhD student Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal @epcc.bsky.social who gave a great talk about our work support Fortran intrinsics on #AMD #AIEs at #SC25 #H2RC. The first step in #AIE Fortran support. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
November 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Well-done to my PhD student Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal @epcc.bsky.social who gave a great talk about our work support Fortran intrinsics on #AMD #AIEs at #SC25 #H2RC. The first step in #AIE Fortran support. dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…
Fascinating talk by Ilan Tayari from @nextsilicon.com 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
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Fascinating talk by Ilan Tayari from @nextsilicon.com 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
I really enjoyed chairing the panel on an open #HPC ecosystem at #SC25 Thanks to @fclc.bsky.social from @tenstorrent.bsky.social , Teresa from @bsc-cns.bsky.social, Tony from #Redhat, Daniele from #E4computer-engineering and Penporn from @developers.google.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I really enjoyed chairing the panel on an open #HPC ecosystem at #SC25 Thanks to @fclc.bsky.social from @tenstorrent.bsky.social , Teresa from @bsc-cns.bsky.social, Tony from #Redhat, Daniele from #E4computer-engineering and Penporn from @developers.google.com
Was really great to meet @jeffgeerling.com at the @epcc.bsky.social booth at #SC25, we had a fascinating chat and I was really inspiring to hear about some of Jeff's projects and activities. Also really cool to chat with him about our Raspberry PI mini supercomputer #WeeArchie
November 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Was really great to meet @jeffgeerling.com at the @epcc.bsky.social booth at #SC25, we had a fascinating chat and I was really inspiring to hear about some of Jeff's projects and activities. Also really cool to chat with him about our Raspberry PI mini supercomputer #WeeArchie
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Attending #SC25? See our website for all our SC activities: www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happen...
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Attending #SC25? See our website for all our SC activities: www.epcc.ed.ac.uk/whats-happen...
Well done to my @epcc.bsky.social PhD student Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal who presented his paper at the #LLVM #SC25 workshop today on an MLIR-based Fortran & OpenMP flow for #AMD #FPGAs.
Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08713
Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08713
November 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Well done to my @epcc.bsky.social PhD student Gabriel Rodriguez-Canal who presented his paper at the #LLVM #SC25 workshop today on an MLIR-based Fortran & OpenMP flow for #AMD #FPGAs.
Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08713
Preprint at arxiv.org/pdf/2511.08713
A wide range of talks so far this morning at the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy #SC25 workshop. Driving analogue systems from #RISCV, coupling with spiking neural networks, and profiling tooling all demonstrates the flexibility the technology gives us to do cool things
November 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A wide range of talks so far this morning at the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy #SC25 workshop. Driving analogue systems from #RISCV, coupling with spiking neural networks, and profiling tooling all demonstrates the flexibility the technology gives us to do cool things
Shashank Nemawarkar from #condorcomputing, part of #andes , kicks off the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy workshop at #SC25 talking about #hpc CPU design. Lots of interesting talks ahead this morning.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Shashank Nemawarkar from #condorcomputing, part of #andes , kicks off the @riscv.org.web.brid.gy workshop at #SC25 talking about #hpc CPU design. Lots of interesting talks ahead this morning.
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Steve Dean from HPE kicking off the “Sustainable Supercomputing” workshop at #SC25 - the room is pretty packed already, but there are a few more seats in room 264 if you want to join. Lots of interesting presentations still to come!
November 16, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Steve Dean from HPE kicking off the “Sustainable Supercomputing” workshop at #SC25 - the room is pretty packed already, but there are a few more seats in room 264 if you want to join. Lots of interesting presentations still to come!
Was great to visit @ncar-cisl.bsky.social last week in Boulder and Cheyenne, we have a centre to centre collaboration via the #EPSRC #CONTINENTS project and they have some really impressive facilities and work. Great discussions ahead of then travelling to St. Louis for #SC25 this week
November 16, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Was great to visit @ncar-cisl.bsky.social last week in Boulder and Cheyenne, we have a centre to centre collaboration via the #EPSRC #CONTINENTS project and they have some really impressive facilities and work. Great discussions ahead of then travelling to St. Louis for #SC25 this week
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The @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth starting to go up, hanging sign and all
November 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The @epcc.bsky.social #SC25 booth starting to go up, hanging sign and all
Thanks @riscv.org.web.brid.gy publishing my article highlighting #RISCV activities coming up at #SC25 this week, a workshop on Monday morning showcasing some of the latest developments and then a panel on adopting a fully open #HPC ecosystem on Thursday 1:30pm
riscv.org/blog/risc-v-...
riscv.org/blog/risc-v-...
We’re Showcasing RISC-V at SC25, the World’s Largest Supercomputing Conference
I’m heading to SC25 in St. Louis next week to advocate for the growing role of RISC-V in high-performance computing (HPC), alongside my peers in the RISC-V HPC special interest group (SIG).
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November 15, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Thanks @riscv.org.web.brid.gy publishing my article highlighting #RISCV activities coming up at #SC25 this week, a workshop on Monday morning showcasing some of the latest developments and then a panel on adopting a fully open #HPC ecosystem on Thursday 1:30pm
riscv.org/blog/risc-v-...
riscv.org/blog/risc-v-...
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In this article, EPCC's @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social writes about the work behind #SC25 sessions on #RISCV, novel and emerging architectures, and the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange network (CAKE). edin.ac/48a229Z
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 AM
In this article, EPCC's @nickbrown-hpc.bsky.social writes about the work behind #SC25 sessions on #RISCV, novel and emerging architectures, and the Computational Abilities Knowledge Exchange network (CAKE). edin.ac/48a229Z
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...
Thanks @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invite to give a keynote at #RISCVSummit a couple of weeks ago. We have seen great progress in #RISCV for #HPC, and given promises by vendors and progress in the sw ecosystem I predict that 2026 could be a watershed year.
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Keynote: Reimagining the Future of High Performance Computing Catalysed by RISC-V - Nick Brown
YouTube video by RISC-V International
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November 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Thanks @riscv.org.web.brid.gy for the invite to give a keynote at #RISCVSummit a couple of weeks ago. We have seen great progress in #RISCV for #HPC, and given promises by vendors and progress in the sw ecosystem I predict that 2026 could be a watershed year.
youtu.be/ItA-NS4vxsU?...
youtu.be/ItA-NS4vxsU?...
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
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Very glad to be down south at the DRI congress in Leeds and to learn about the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure. And thanks to Garth Wells (EPSRC) to flag CAKE! www.cake.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Very glad to be down south at the DRI congress in Leeds and to learn about the UK's Digital Research Infrastructure. And thanks to Garth Wells (EPSRC) to flag CAKE! www.cake.ac.uk
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October 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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EPCC has won EU & UK Gov funding to establish and operate the €10m (£8.6m) UK AI Factory Antenna. This initiative will help organisations increase literacy in the technology and its use, and show how it can help increase productivity and deliver growth. edin.ac/3WzDaSx
October 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
EPCC has won EU & UK Gov funding to establish and operate the €10m (£8.6m) UK AI Factory Antenna. This initiative will help organisations increase literacy in the technology and its use, and show how it can help increase productivity and deliver growth. edin.ac/3WzDaSx
I wondered if one could write a @tenstorrent.bsky.social
#Wormhole simulator that will execute tt-metal binaries based on the information in the excellent ISA documentation. Answer is yes, tt-sim is a Python @tenstorrent.bsky.social simulator. Still WIP, but runs things
github.com/mesham/tt-sim
#Wormhole simulator that will execute tt-metal binaries based on the information in the excellent ISA documentation. Answer is yes, tt-sim is a Python @tenstorrent.bsky.social simulator. Still WIP, but runs things
github.com/mesham/tt-sim
GitHub - mesham/tt-sim: Tenstorrent architecture simulator
Tenstorrent architecture simulator. Contribute to mesham/tt-sim development by creating an account on GitHub.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:58 PM
I wondered if one could write a @tenstorrent.bsky.social
#Wormhole simulator that will execute tt-metal binaries based on the information in the excellent ISA documentation. Answer is yes, tt-sim is a Python @tenstorrent.bsky.social simulator. Still WIP, but runs things
github.com/mesham/tt-sim
#Wormhole simulator that will execute tt-metal binaries based on the information in the excellent ISA documentation. Answer is yes, tt-sim is a Python @tenstorrent.bsky.social simulator. Still WIP, but runs things
github.com/mesham/tt-sim
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
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Great to see our knowledge exchange project (cake-dri.github.io) being represented properly at meetings. Thanks to Eleanor Broadway @epcc.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Great to see our knowledge exchange project (cake-dri.github.io) being represented properly at meetings. Thanks to Eleanor Broadway @epcc.bsky.social