Facilities
The MSc operates from a suite of rooms on the seventh floor of the James Clerk Maxwell Building on the King's Buildings site, to the south of the city centre. This comprises a teaching lab and a student common room, as well as offices for teaching and IT support staff.
The teaching lab is the venue for most of the classes in the core courses. It has spectacular views across the city of Edinburgh, and is available outwith class hours for private study by MSc students.
Practical exercises from most courses are run on the teaching lab servers or on a dedicated cluster, but larger-scale computing facilities are available where necessary. The University operates the Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility, a 1456-processor compute cluster with over 275TB of disk storage available to University staff, while other practicals have been run on grid resources from the UK National Grid Service or the European Enabling Grids for E-SciencE (EGEE) project. The University also runs HECToR, the UK's national academic supercomputer, as well as having the first IBM eServer Blue Gene system in Europe.