First 10 years of the EPCC Summer Scholarship Programme

For the past 10 years, the EPCC (Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre) Summer Scholarship Programme (SSP) has given undergraduate students from all over the world the chance to work at EPCC for 10 weeks during their summer break. While at EPCC, students attend a week-long training course covering many aspects of computer simulation and high-performance computing. They spend the remaining nine weeks working on a technical project under the supervision of an EPCC staff member. The SSP began in 1987 with two local undergraduates working on parallel computing projects at the University of Edinburgh's Department of Physics. Since the arrangement was formalized within EPCC in 1989, the programme has continued to develop, taking students from an ever-increasing range of disciplines and countries. Today, the SSP is more popular than ever, with the available places many times oversubscribed.