Welcome message from our Directors EPCC has built up a unique set of skills, which it has employed in collaboration with hundreds of businesses and academic research groups Founded at The University of Edinburgh in 1990, EPCC is a leading European centre of expertise in advanced research, technology transfer and the provision of supercomputer services to academia and business When EPCC was founded in 1990, computational simulation was in its infancy and parallel computing was a novel niche technology Our work not only benefits scientific research, but generates new techniques and approaches that are taken up by industry