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The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national high-performance computing centre in Ireland. It was established in 2005 and provides supercomputing resources, support, training and related services. As of 2014, ICHEC manages the Fionn〔(Fionn supercomputer at ICHEC )〕 supercomputer, a heterogeneous system composed of: * an SGI ICE X cluster with 320 nodes or 7,680 Intel Ivy Bridge processor cores with a combined 20 TB of memory (24 cores and 64 GB memory per node). * a hybrid partition with 32 nodes. Each node has 20 Intel Ivy Bridge processor cores, 64 GB of memory along with many-core hardware from Intel (2x Xeon Phi 5110P coprocessors on 16 nodes) and Nvidia (2x Tesla K20X GPGPU cards on 16 nodes). * a shared memory compute node (14 internal NUMA nodes) with 112 Intel Sandy Bridge processor cores, 2 Intel Xeon Phi 5110P coprocessors and 1.7 TB of memory. * a set of service and administrative nodes to provide user login, batch scheduling, management, tape backup, switches, etc. Storage is provided via a (DDN ) SFA12k-20 platform with 560 TB of capacity to all components of the machine via a Lustre filesystem. Fionn is connected to HEAnet's networking infrastructure. Irish researchers can apply for access to Fionn via the (National Service ) or through the (Condominium Access ) scheme. An online (Helpdesk ) is available for user support. ICHEC is involved in a range of (education and training ) activities, including provision of courses for researchers. ICHEC was designated a Nvidia CUDA Research Center in 2010 〔(List of Nvidia CUDA Research Centers, retrieved 19 September 2014 )〕 Its work in this area has included the porting to CUDA of the Quantum ESPRESSO and (DL_POLY ) molecular dynamics packages as well as various industrial benchmarking studies. ICHEC became an Intel Parallel Computing Center (IPCC) in 2014 〔(List of Intel Parallel Computing Centers, retrieved 19 September 2014 )〕 to conduct research on many-core technology in high performance computing and big data analytics. In collaboration with Met Éireann, ICHEC provides hardware and support to run climate and weather forecast models. ICHEC computational scientists also take an active part in the ongoing development of the models and conduct related climate/environmental research. ICHEC works with a number of Irish government departments and agencies (e.g. Enterprise Ireland, IDA Ireland) to provide (consultancy services ) to Irish companies in various areas including data mining, visualisation, data management and software development/optimization. ==References== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irish Centre for High-End Computing」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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