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ICHEC are concerned by recent coverage in RTE.ie and Silicon Republic about Ireland being ranked as number one in the world in terms of number of Top500 supercomputers per capita and the misleading picture it paints of HPC in Ireland. 

A look at the 1957 Windscale Fire in what later became the Sellafield Nuclear site. Using advanced atmospheric datasets unavailable at the time, we take a look at how the event may have affected Ireland. 

The Irish Centre for High-End Computing has been shortlisted for the Technology Ireland Software Industry Awards 2017. ICHEC have been recognised in the category, Outstanding Academic Achievement of the Year for our ongoing collaboration with Tullow Oil. 

After Storm Ophelia brought Ireland to a standstill last weekend, there is considerable interest in storms and how they will affect Ireland.

As the clean-up after Storm Ophelia continues, a hot topic of conversation is whether climate change will have an impact on the frequency and intensity of Irish storms in the future.