Irish Centre for High-End Computing

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national high-performance computing centre in Ireland. It was established in 2005 and provides supercomputing resources, support, training and related services.

As of 2014, ICHEC manages the Fionn[1] supercomputer, a heterogeneous system composed of:

Fionn is connected to HEAnet's networking infrastructure.

Irish researchers can apply for access to Fionn via the National Service or through the Condominium Access scheme. An online Helpdesk is available for user support. ICHEC is involved in a range of education and training activities, including provision of courses for researchers.

ICHEC was designated a Nvidia CUDA Research Center in 2010 [2] Its work in this area has included the porting to CUDA of the Quantum ESPRESSO and DL_POLY molecular dynamics packages as well as various industrial benchmarking studies.

ICHEC became an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) in 2014 [3] to conduct research on many-core technology in high performance computing and big data analytics.

In collaboration with Met Éireann, ICHEC provides hardware and support to run climate and weather forecast models. ICHEC computational scientists also take an active part in the ongoing development of the models and conduct related climate/environmental research.

ICHEC works with a number of Irish government departments and agencies (e.g. Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland) to provide consultancy services to Irish companies in various areas including data mining, visualisation, data management and software development/optimization.

References

  1. ↑ Fionn supercomputer at ICHEC
  2. ↑ List of Nvidia CUDA Research Centers, retrieved 19 September 2014
  3. ↑ List of Intel Parallel Computing Centers, retrieved 19 September 2014


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