Ireland's High-Performance Computing Centre

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), founded in 2005, is Ireland's national high performance computer centre. Its mission is to provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources, support, education and training for researchers in third-level institutions and through technology transfer and enablement to support Irish industries large and small to contribute to the development of the Irish economy.[about us]

Research Collaboration

ICHEC is actively involved in a number of research collaborations allowing its staff to develop and share HPC expertise in the context of frontline research. Building strong partnerships with research modelers is a key part of ICHEC's mission.[more]

Consortium Support

ICHEC staff members provide direct support to research projects. This involves a member of ICHEC's scientific staff working directly on specific projects to help researchers develop and tune their codes to run more effectively on international as well as national high-end compute facilities.[more]

News & Events [more news]

European-US Summer School 2012 in Dublin, 24-28 June

Application deadline 18 March

ICHEC designated as HMPP Centre of Competence

ICHEC designated as Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming (HMPP) Centre of Competence

3D Weather Demos to Research and Innovation Minister

ICHEC models the weather for Minister Sherlock TD

FP7 e-FISCAL project kicks off

Illuminating the costs of computing infrastructures

New Video: An Introduction to ICHEC

A brief introductory video is now available.

PRACE News & Events

PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architecture

Call for applicants for the PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architecture in Lugano Switzerland on the 21st to 23rd of June 2012

PRACE Tier-0/Tier-1 Access Calls

Call for proposals for 5th PRACE Project Access and Multi-year Access (Tier-0) and synchronized DECI-9 Call (Tier-1)