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Amidst flattening curves and lows turnover in the global HPC rankings, Ireland sees no turnover in the November 2020 list, as was also seen in the June 2020 list. The current global #1 – the Japanese Fugaku supercomputer – was … Continue reading →

The 14th Irish Supercomputer List saw no new additions. However, globally there is a new world-leader in the Top500. Supercomputer Fugaku is the name of this machine, with a HPL score of 415.5 petaflops, beating Summit by a factor of … Continue reading →

CeADAR, Ireland’s Centre for Applied AI will be receiving a new supercomputer named Leon as detailed by Silicon Republic, the Irish Independent, and HPCwire. The HPCwire article points out that we have noted here (and here) that almost all of … Continue reading →

The November 2019 Top500 Supercomputer List had a record 14 Irish machines. The combined performance of these 13 machines is over 23 Petaflops, bringing the aggregate power of all 46 machines on the Irish Supercomputer List to over 28.8 Petaflops. … Continue reading →

The June 2019 Top500 Supercomputer List had a record 13 Irish machines. The combined performance of these 13 machines is over 21 Petaflops, bringing the aggregate power of all 43 machines on the Irish Supercomputer List to over 27.2 Petaflops. … Continue reading →

The November 2018 Top500 Supercomputer List had a record eight new new Irish machines, bringing Ireland’s total number of current Top500 installations to 12, an all-time high over June 2018’s high of seven. The combined performance of these 12 machines is … Continue reading →

In June 2018, the Top500 Supercomputer List had five new Irish machines, bringing Ireland’s total number of current Top500 installations to 7, with a combined performance of over 9 Petaflops. The aggregate power of all 35 machines on the Irish … Continue reading →

The CloudLightning project has announced the launch of a free open online course High Performance Computing in the Cloud, developed in collaboration with the Irish Centre for Cloud Computing and Commerce (IC4) and Dublin City University. Hosted on FutureLearn, the … Continue reading →

Despite the recent headlines that Ireland now ranks highest in number of Top500 supercomputers per capita, we have continued our steep fall on the research High Performance Computing stage – a trajectory that has been highlighted on several occasions. It … Continue reading →

Also a must read for more insightful stats: Nov ’17 Followup: Gap Between Research and Industry HPC in Ireland Widens The 9th Irish Supercomputer List was released today featuring two new world-class supercomputers. This is the first time that Ireland … Continue reading →