News Archives

• Jülich Blue Gene/P Extreme Scaling Workshop (21 January 2010)
  Jülich Supercomputing Centre announces upcoming scaling workshop.
• DEISA & PRACE access calls (21 January 2010)
  Open calls for access to European HPC facilities.
• Happy Christmas (24 December 2009)
  The ICHEC team wishes everyone a happy Christmas
• DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative - Workshop details (7 December 2009)
  Extreme Computing Initiative call for proposals for 2010
• More PRACE Success for Irish Researchers (5 November 2009)
  Three more Irish researchers granted access to PRACE prototype systems
• Remarkable results on JUGENE (3 November 2009)
  ICHEC user Dr. Turlough Downes is seeing impressive test results on PRACE systems.
• ICHEC Visualisation Service (7 October 2009)
  Now open to researchers
• ICHEC presents at NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (2 October 2009)
  ICHEC Computational Scientist Christos Kartsaklis introduces JASM
• Microscale Molecular Simulations Workshop (5 August 2009)
  14th-16th October 2009, Dublin, Ireland
• Irish researchers successful in PRACE prototype access call (24 July 2009)
  Two ICHEC users granted access to Europe's fastest computers
• ICHEC Class A project resources increased (8 July 2009)
  Class A project applicants can now apply for 4.5 million CPU hours
• New InfiniBand cluster (7 July 2009)
  Stoney is an InfiniBand cluster with Intel Nehalem processors
• PRACE Prototype Access (7 May 2009)
  PRACE access programme to prototype petascale systems
• Astronomy & Stokes (29 April 2009)
  Featured on RTÉ News
• Easter Holidays (8 April 2009)
  The ICHEC Easter holidays.
• DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative (3 March 2009)
  New call for DECI proposals now open.
• Launch of National HPC Service and HPC Hub (9 February 2009)
  ICHEC will be launching the new National HPC Service on Stokes and the opening of the National HPC Hub in Dublin at the Royal Irish Academy on Thu. 26th February. Registration starts at 9.00am
• Summer Scholarships 2009 (29 January 2009)
  Online applications now open!
• ICHEC National Survey (29 January 2009)
  Survey of research community's computing needs underway
• Accepting Class C Applications (12 January 2009)
  After the brief suspension of Class C applications for stokes, the process is now re-opened.
• Happy Christmas (19 December 2008)
  The ICHEC team wishes everyone a happy Christmas
• Job Openings at ICHEC (19 December 2008)
  Positions currently open at ICHEC
• Closure of Walton and Hamilton services (2 December 2008)
  The Walton cluster and Hamilton shared memory servers will be shut down on 11th December!
• Temporary Suspension of Class C applications (2 December 2008)
  Class C application process suspended until January
• McEliece crypto system cracked (3 November 2008)
  DCU researchers use ICHEC machine to crack crypto system
• First IBM-ICHEC BlueGene Workshop (3 September 2008)
  A workshop for the BlueGene community in Ireland
• ICHEC Guides (8 August 2008)
  Technical guides to using ICHEC's facilities
• ICHEC Training Courses in DCU (25 July 2008)
  ICHEC Training Courses in DCU
• ICHEC Annual Seminar 2008 (21 July 2008)
  29th/30th October, RIA - all welcome
• ICHEC News #4 (20 June 2008)
  ICHEC news and updates
• Ireland joins PRACE (13 June 2008)
  ICHEC becomes a member of the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe
• Announcing the new low-latency cluster (16 May 2008)
  Bringing low-latency cluster access to the National HPC Service
• Policy Changes (16 May 2008)
  New eligibility rules and new thresholds
• Allinea DDT/OPT Training Course (14 May 2008)
  Training courses on DDT/OPT for ICHEC users
• New ICHEC Director (21 February 2008)
  Prof. James Slevin appointed as ICHEC Director
• National Capability Service Open (14 February 2008)
  The capability computing service on the IBM Blue Gene systems is now open.
• Job openings at ICHEC (11 December 2007)
  Positions currently open at ICHEC
• EC-Earth inaugural meeting (3 December 2007)
  Met Éireann, UCD and ICHEC hold 2 day international conference on climate change
• 12th Irish Nanoscale Simulators Meeting (13 November 2007)
  Tyndall Institute to host the 12th Irish Nanoscale Simulators on the 17th-18th of December
• ICHEC News #3 (8 November 2007)
  ICHEC news and updates
• ICHEC Seminar (7 November 2007)
  The ICHEC Annual Seminar for 2007 will take place on the 13th & 14th of December, in association with the Royal Irish Academy.
• Nanoscale Simulators in Ireland (17 October 2007)
  Announcing the creation of a new network of simulators in Ireland
• ICHEC Roadshow 2007 (17 August 2007)
  Stay tuned for an ICHEC meeting near you...
• Press (24 May 2007)
  ICHEC in the Press
• ICHEC News #2 (19 April 2007)
  HPC news & information from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.
• IAHPC Meeting (13 April 2007)
  Next IAHPC Meeting in NUI Galway
• ICHEC / Met Éireann collaboration (3 April 2007)
  ICHEC and Met Éireann are embarking on a new collaboration
• ICHEC Users Council (15 March 2007)
  Read more on our proposal to establish an independant Users Council
• New ICHEC Acting Director (13 March 2007)
  Dr. J.-C. Desplat appointed Acting Director
• Job openings (9 February 2007)
  At least four (4) positions in the ICHEC have recently become available.
• IAHPC AGM (28 November 2006)
  The Irish Association for High Performance Computing AGM.
• ICHEC News (19 October 2006)
  HPC news & information from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.
• ICHEC Seminar 2006 (6 October 2006)
  ICHEC supported by the Royal Irish Academy has organised a seminar entitled "Towards a Coherent HPC Ecosystem - A National Debate."
• ICHEC training courses in UCD (28 September 2006)
  Our training courses on HPC and MPI move on to University College Dublin.
• Scientific Council meeting (19 September 2006)
  The fifth meeting of the ICHEC Scientific Council is scheduled.
• High-end computing talk at Tyndall (28 August 2006)
  Prof. Martyn F. Guest talks about application performance at Tyndall National Institute.
• New resource limits (21 August 2006)
  ICHEC introduces higher resource limits for all classes of projects.
• Centre director sought (31 July 2006)
  ICHEC is looking for a new Director of the Centre.
• Second call for class A applications (30 June 2006)
  ICHEC is now inviting proposals for Class A ("Grand Challenge") applications.
• First class A projects (30 June 2006)
  ICHEC approves its first two class A research projects.
• ICHEC in the TOP500 list (30 June 2006)
  We have ranked #345 in the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list.
• Get resources "for free" (22 June 2006)
  ICHEC introduces a flexible resource allocation scheme.
• IAHPC meeting (26 April 2006)
  The next AGM of the IAHPC to be held on 8-9th of June 2006.
• Call for Class A applications (3 April 2006)
  ICHEC is now inviting proposals for Class A ("Grand Challenge") applications.
• Second Users Group meeting (24 March 2006)
  Second ICHEC User Group meeting to be held on Tuesday, April 25.
• openMPI and openRTE talk in UCC (16 March 2006)
  Dr Ralph H. Castain gives a much-awaited presentation in UCC.
• Full National Service (2 March 2006)
  The ICHEC Full National Service is now open and running.
• National survey of HPC users (15 February 2006)
  ICHEC and TCHPC run new national survey of High Performance Computing Users in Ireland.
• Scientific Council meeting (14 February 2006)
  The first meeting of the ICHEC Scientific Council is scheduled.
• ICHEC training courses in Dublin (13 January 2006)
  Our training courses on HPC and MPI move on to Dublin City University.
• Helpdesk holiday response (16 December 2005)
  The ICHEC Helpdesk will offer reduced response during the holidays.
• User Group meeting (9 December 2005)
  First ICHEC User Group meeting to be held on Thursday, December 15.
• Meet ICHEC at TCD (9 December 2005)
  ICHEC will be presenting a poster at the Atomistic Simulation meeting in TCD.
• Research Frontiers supported (25 November 2005)
  ICHEC supports research funded through the SFI Research Frontiers programme.
• ICHEC in the TOP500 list (15 November 2005)
  We have ranked #205 in the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list.
• ICHEC training courses in Cork (14 November 2005)
  Our training courses on HPC and MPI move on to the Tyndall Institute.
• NUI Galway training courses (7 November 2005)
  Our training courses on HPC and MPI move on to NUI Galway.
• New tutorials available (2 November 2005)
  We have published 3 new tutorials on Emacs, Unix and Vi.
• Training course comments (28 October 2005)
  We have published a short questionnaire for anybody who took part in our training courses on HPC or MPI.
• UCD training courses fully booked (21 October 2005)
  The user training courses on HPC and MPI scheduled in UCD are already full.
• ICHEC training courses (5 October 2005)
  We have organised a series of training courses on HPC and MPI.
• Walton is ready (21 September 2005)
  We are pleased to announce that our IBM cluster 1350 is now open for general access.
• Transitional service applications (19 August 2005)
  Our transitional service is now open for applications.
• ICHEC overview talks (18 August 2005)
  We're conducting a number of presentations to the user community across Ireland.
• ICHEC website v1.0 (12 August 2005)
  Our website receives a pretty substantial makeover, and we've only just begun.
• ICHEC hardware installation (27 July 2005)
  Hardware installation updates, including machine specs galore. Techie heaven!
• Bioinformatics workshop (23 May 2005)
  Information session regarding the bioinformatics component of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing.
• Job openings (10 February 2005)
  At least five (5) positions in the ICHEC have recently become available.