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The fifth Irish Supercomputer List (December 2015) was released today. There are three new installations for the fifth list, bringing the total to 28, with two from Trinity College Dublin (#9 and 10) and one from University College Dublin (#11). … Continue reading →

The 46th Top500 list was released this week, With China’s Tianhe-2 topping the list again, for the 6th time. Overall there is little change at the top with only 2 new machines in the top ten. China’s share of the … Continue reading →

Ireland has been selected to lead a new consortium looking at the future of supercomputing in Europe. Ireland will lead the new E-Cam centre of excellence for supercomputing on behalf of the CECAM network of computational science institutes, with Ireland’s … Continue reading →

The Fourth Irish Supercomputer List was released today, July 14, 2015. This is the first time in the history of the list that there has been no change since the last update. There are several proposed installations that we are … Continue reading →

The latest China Top 100 HPC List has been released in English through www.top500.org. This is a welcome addition to the small number of country and region-specific lists which now number four, including the Irish list: Commonwealth of Independent States … Continue reading →

The PRACE Scientific and Industrial Conference 2015 (PRACEdays15) will be held in Dublin, at the Aviva Stadium, from 26 to 28 May 2015, under the motto: Enable Science Foster Industry The conference programme, registration and more is available at: http://www.prace-ri.eu/pracedays15/

Today the Irish Supercomputer List presented “Where is Ireland in the Global HPC Arena? …and what are we doing there?” at the Dell HPC Summit, hosted today at the Dunsink Observatory. The talk presented the current state of High Performance Computing … Continue reading →

Ireland has fallen out of the top500 list of supercomputers in the world. Ireland’s most powerful supercomputer, Fionn, entered the top500 list in November 2013 at a very credible 358 in the rankings – meaning it was the 358 th … Continue reading →

The third Irish Supercomputer List was released today, and for the first time we have entrants from Northern Ireland. Queen’s University Belfast has two machines on the list,  at positions 13 and 23. University College Dublin also has two new … Continue reading →

In the first project of its kind in Northern Ireland, Fujitsu has invested £1.1million in a new High Performance Computing service to support the development of the local knowledge economy, particularly small and medium sized enterprises. The powerful technology can … Continue reading →