News Archives

We are hiring! (12 February 2013)
Industry Research & Development Liaison, System Administator and Computational Scientist Positions available
Merry Christmas (18 December 2012)
The ICHEC team wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
Dell HPC Day 2012 (23 October 2012)
HPC Event held in Dunsink Observatory (Oct 2012)
6th PRACE Project Access (8 October 2012)
Tier-0 PRACE calls now open
Come join ICHEC at Culture Night 2012! (17 September 2012)
This year's edition delves into weather and the cosmos at Dunsink Observatory on Friday, 21st Sept 2012
Software Carpentry in the Cloud Boot Camp -- Update (4 September 2012)
1-3rd September 2012, Dublin
Software Carpentry in the Cloud Boot Camp (7 August 2012)
1-3 Sep 2012, Dublin. Open for applications.
PRACE Autumn School in Bulgaria, 24-28 Sep (26 July 2012)
On massively parallel architectures and molecular simulations
Research highlight (26 July 2012)
UCC & Teagasc researchers publish in Nature
ICHEC Interim Director receives academic award (5 June 2012)
Jean-Christophe Desplat awarded Adjunct Professorship
PRACE Summer School on Code Optimisation for Multi-Core and Intel MIC Architecture (4 May 2012)
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 (24 April 2012)
Call for proposals for 5th PRACE Project Access and Multi-year Access (Tier-0) and synchronized DECI-9 Call (Tier-1)
Dublin Castle PRACE Meetings (13 March 2012)
Scientific Case for the European HPC infrastructure & PRACE User Forum update meetings in Dublin Castle March 14 & 15th
European-US Summer School 2012 in Dublin, 24-28 June (6 March 2012)
Application deadline 18 March
Computational Approaches on Life Sciences and Chemistry Workshop (24 January 2012)
PRACE Workshop: Computational Approaches on Life Sciences and Chemistry, February 17-18 2012, Sofia, Bulgaria
HPC breakfast briefing for financial companies (23 January 2012)
Join us at this free briefing to explore how HPC is addressing their business problems.
GPU Training (18 January 2012)
ICHEC and NVIDIA present course introducing the CUDA language and GPU Computing
Merry Christmas (16 December 2011)
The ICHEC team wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
PRACE Winter School (8 December 2011)
Winter School Bologna February 6-11
PRACE calls open (24 November 2011)
Tier-1 and Tier-0 PRACE calls now open
Irish successes in PRACE calls (24 November 2011)
Awards to researchers in the PRACE Tier-1 and Tier-0 calls
ICHEC designated as HMPP Centre of Competence (27 October 2011)
ICHEC designated as Hybrid Multicore Parallel Programming (HMPP) Centre of Competence
3D Weather Demos to Research and Innovation Minister (25 October 2011)
ICHEC models the weather for Minister Sherlock TD
PRACE Autumn School (1 September 2011)
Advanced Hybrid Programming
FP7 e-FISCAL project kicks off (30 August 2011)
Illuminating the costs of computing infrastructures
PRACE Newsletter Vol. 4 2011 (20 June 2011)
4th PRACE newsletter available
PRACE & INCITE Calls closing soon (20 June 2011)
The closing dates for the current PRACE and INCITE calls are fast approaching.
e-Infrastructure Development (19 May 2011)
ICHEC Associate Director joins UK EPSRC Research Infrastructure Strategic Advisory Team
Want a real number for the cost of cloud technologies? (18 May 2011)
FP7 E-Fiscal project to create business cost models for cloud, grid and HPC
Controlled Molecular Motion? (7 April 2011)
Irish Times coverage of a Nature Chemistry publication & related work by Dr. D. Thompson
PRACE Production Award (6 April 2011)
Dr. Turlough Downes awarded PRACE Production Time
PRACE Preparatory Success (6 April 2011)
Preparatory Access granted to two Irish Researchers
Funded EU/US Summer School (18 March 2011)
On HPC Challenges in Computational Science; 7-12 August in Lake Tahoe, California
ICHEC Jobs: Climate Modeling (24 February 2011)
Climate Modeling Position Available
ICHEC Jobs: Systems Administrator (18 February 2011)
Systems Administrator position available
Summer Scholarships 2011 (15 February 2011)
Application deadline: 13th March
DEISA/PRACE Spring School (21 January 2011)
Tools and Techniques for Extreme Scalability Spring School to be held at EPCC Edinburgh from 29th-31st of March
Software Job Opening at ICHEC (13 January 2011)
Systems Programmer (Software Developer) position available
Merry Christmas (20 December 2010)
The ICHEC team wishes everyone a Merry Christmas
User Survey by PRACE (13 December 2010)
A HPC User Survey is being conducted by PRACE
PRACE 2nd Regular Call (13 December 2010)
PRACE issues access call for Curie and Jugene
ICHEC Video (30 November 2010)
A brief introductory video of ICHEC
Research Highlight (11 October 2010)
Irish scientists make breakthrough in elucidating the origin of life
Job openings at ICHEC (7 September 2010)
Computational Scientist job opening
Irish success in DECI call (25 August 2010)
Three Irish projects were successful in this years DEISA Extreme Computing Initiative call
Stokes available following upgrade (24 August 2010)
Access to Stokes has been restored following the upgrade
Job openings at ICHEC (4 August 2010)
Positions to be announced in September
ICHEC recognised as an official CUDA Research Center (7 July 2010)
"...doing world-changing research by leveraging CUDA and NVIDIA GPUs"
1 Year PRACE Access Call (1 July 2010)
PRACE issues first regular access call for JUGENE
ICHEC partners with SGI to provide GPGPU consultancy (31 May 2010)
ICHEC to Work Exclusively with SGI to Provide Consultancy Services for GPGPU-Based Applications
Job opening at ICHEC (25 May 2010)
Seeking Research Associate/Software Developer (Technology Transfer)
PRACE Early Access – call for proposals (16 May 2010)
Opening of the PRACE service - now ready for production!
Scalability Tests on Stokes (15 April 2010)
Large scale testing on Stokes conducted during downtime.
ISC 2010 (16 March 2010)
International Supercomputing Conference, Hamburg May 30th - June 3rd
Quantum Espresso Workshop (16 March 2010)
Theory and Practical Use of Quantum ESPRESSO Workshop June 2010
US HPC Access Calls (3 March 2010)
Open calls for access to US High Performance Computing facilities.
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.