Access to HPC

All Academics and Researchers associated with an Irish third-level institutions Ireland are entitled to ICHEC's Computational Resources. The current resources available to host National HPC Service projects are:

  1. Kay (End of life since Nov 2023, all projects and users to be migrated to Meluxina before June 2024)
  2. Interim Service Platform on Meluxina (outsourced HPC resources to bridge gap until new National infrastructure available)

Access to these systems requires being a member of a current National HPC Service project. Each project has a Principal Investigator (PI) and can have multiple members as approved by the PI. 

Between 01/02/2024 and 01/04/2024 no new project applications will be accepted while the migration of existing projects takes place. 

In order to join an existing project and be granted access to the HPC platform:

  1. You must register a central ICHEC account
  2. Once your account is approved, you can apply for two different mechanisms to access computational cycles on ICHEC HPC machines
    • Apply for your own National Service Project (Paused until April 2024)
    • Join a current National Service Project by requesting the PI of that project to add you to their project via a Helpdesk ticket.

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