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In a dramatic shake-up of the Irish High Performance Computing landscape, the 6th Irish Supercomputer List was announced today. The new list features six new machines at positions 1, 2, 3, 8, 20 and 27. The top three machines are … Continue reading →

Ravi Reddy from The Irish Supercomputer List will be presenting at the Dell HPC Summit at the Dunsink Observatory in Dublin on Thursday March 24. Other presenters include Dell, the Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), Cluster Vision and … Continue reading →

The Irish Supercomputer List is thrilled to welcome Ravi Reddy Manumachu to its Advisory Committee. Ravi brings a wealth of HPC knowledge, from both academic and industry perspectives. He is currently a research fellow in the School of Computer Science … Continue reading →

Thanks to James Nagle (@maniacalinc) for the below plots showing Irish Supercomputer performance and core counts by segment and university.

The fifth Irish Supercomputer List (December 2015) was released today. There are three new installations for the fifth list, bringing the total to 28, with two from Trinity College Dublin (#9 and 10) and one from University College Dublin (#11). … Continue reading →

The 46th Top500 list was released this week, With China’s Tianhe-2 topping the list again, for the 6th time. Overall there is little change at the top with only 2 new machines in the top ten. China’s share of the … Continue reading →

Ireland has been selected to lead a new consortium looking at the future of supercomputing in Europe. Ireland will lead the new E-Cam centre of excellence for supercomputing on behalf of the CECAM network of computational science institutes, with Ireland’s … Continue reading →

The Fourth Irish Supercomputer List was released today, July 14, 2015. This is the first time in the history of the list that there has been no change since the last update. There are several proposed installations that we are … Continue reading →