ICHEC partners with SGI to provide GPGPU consultancy This article is outdated - use this information at your own risk! Posted on 31 May 2010

General Purpose Graphics Processing Units (GPGPUs) are a promising development in the field of high-performance computing and numerical simulation, offering large-scale performance on low-cost hardware.

As part of a recently announced partnership, ICHEC will work with SGI in providing consultancy services in GPU computing for both industry and academia. Further information about the partnership is available in the following SGI press release: http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2010/may/ichec.html

GPGPU-related work is one of ICHEC's primary research activities. Further information regarding current GPGPU research at ICHEC is available at http://www.ichec.ie/research/gpgpu_projects