ICHEC - Irish Centre for High-End Computing

www.ichec.ie

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national High-Performance Computing centre in Ireland. It was established in late 2005 under the aegis of the National University of Ireland, Galway. With its 19 staff, including ten research-active computational scientists, ICHEC is pursuing an active policy of engagement and collaboration with the research community to support the development of internationally competitive computational modelling and world-class research across all the main disciplines. In its relatively short existence, ICHEC has supported a total of 234 projects and 258 researchers.

ICHEC has developed strong credentials in GPGPU programming (4 staff) and Capability Computing. Our Capability Computing development programme in particular, has led to a large number of successful applications to the PRACE prototype access scheme, and excellent results, including the ability of one of our researchers to run his application on the full JUGENE supercomputer (i.e. on 294,912 cores, and with 67% parallel efficiency). This result in itself confirms the effectiveness of ICHEC’s policy of engagement, and the relevance and accessibility of the PRACE infrastructure for Irish researchers.

ICHEC is hosted by the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway).

Since its establishment in 1845, NUI Galway has developed a distinguished record in scholarship and research. With over 160 years experience of academic excellence, the university is one of Ireland’s foremost educational institutions. Starting from a small base of 68 students in the 1840’s, NUI Galway is now home to almost 17,000 students from over 90 countries around the world.