The Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility (ECDF) offers a number of services aimed to satisfy as best as possible all researchers' computational requirements. The University has built a new modern datacentre facility at the Kings Buildings campus to host the Eddie and Eleanor services. The hardware for these two services was moved from their previous locations in 2025/26 to the modern facility which has state of the art power, cooling and fire protection infrastructure so we can provide a higher quality and more available service to our users. High-performance computing Learn more about Eddie, our state-of-the-art research compute cluster. Data Research Services offer a range of data services, including a large-scale network file storage service called DataStore. Cloud Computing Service A comprehensive cloud computing service, to provide a platform to self-provision infrastructure to support both researchers and development teams. Support Services Research Services can offer support for researchers wishing to make best use of computational and data resources within their research including services below. Document A Guide to the Research Computing Service (270.66 KB / PDF) This article was published on Tuesday 8 September 2026
