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Optical processing – a route to exascale?

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Brett

UK startup Optalysys has a 340 GFlop optical processing proof-of-concept that they claim is achievale of scaling to exascale by 2020. Full story here.

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What’s it like to unbox a supercomputer?

Posted on August 1, 2014 by Brett

Nice article from our friends at ExtremeTech, including unboxing Magnus2, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre‘s new Petaflop-scale Cray XC90, and the University of Arizona’s El Gato, believed to be a custom-build IBM. They also have a great time-lapse of ORNL’s Jaguar morphing … Continue reading →

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Dublin to host Turing Lecture Series in 2017

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Brett

The renowned Turing Lecture Series will be coming to Dublin in 2017. The Irish Computer Society was successful in its bid to bring the lecture series – now in its 19th year – to Dublin to coincide with the ICS’s … Continue reading →

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Irish #1 is most power efficient x86-based non-accelerated system in Top500!

Posted on July 16, 2014 by Brett

The Irish Centre for High End Computing‘s newest computer, Fionn, is not only the fastest system in Ireland in terms of TFlops, but the most power efficient x86-based system on the Top500 list, when not taking acceleration into account. The … Continue reading →

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June 2014 Irish Supercomputer List released!

Posted on June 29, 2014 by Brett

The June 2014 Irish Supercomputer List was released on June 30, increasing the number of installations by over 50%. That’s 8 new machines in 6 months! Some quick facts about the machines currently on the list: Total CPU cores: almost … Continue reading →

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Ireland competes amazingly well vs. Russia, India

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Brett

Here are a few stats comparing Ireland with two other countries with national supercomputer lists, Russia and India: Min Perf (TFlops) Max Perf (TFlops) Number of Machines Population (millions) Ireland 1 140 15 5 Russia 14 719 50 144 India 10 … Continue reading →

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Ireland is number 5 in Top500 supercomputers per capita in the world!

Posted on June 10, 2014 by Brett

Ireland has been significantly upping its game in Supercomputing lately, and here is how Ireland ranks globally: Ireland is world number 5 in number of Top500 supercomputers per capita, behind only the United States, Switzerland, Norway and Sweden! Ireland has … Continue reading →

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UK and EU announce new (and Green) Kings of their Hills

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Brett

On March 25, the UK’s newest, fastest supercomputer was unveiled. “ARCHER” is approximately 3.5 times faster than HECToR, the installation that it replaced, and now rules the roost in the UK. ARCHER will help researchers carry out sophisticated, complex calculations … Continue reading →

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NUI Galway, Intel, ICHEC in new Parallel Computing Partnership

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Brett

NUI Galway, Intel and the Irish Centre for High End Computing have joined forces to start the new parallel computing centre aimed at significantly improving parallelism, scalability and efficiency of existing High Performance Computing applications. Intel is funding the programme, … Continue reading →

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First Irish Supercomputer List Released

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Brett

The first Irish Supercomputer List was released on Nov 27. Top of the list is Fionn, a brand new installation from the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, mentioned recently in our news items here at the Irish Supercomputer List. Fionn’s … Continue reading →

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