Supercomputing in Ireland - catalogue & history
A web resource collating links & history of supercomputers, supercomputing,
high performance computing, scientific computing, Beowulfery, in Ireland. Presently
under initial construction (April-Sep 2005)! If you are reading this: please send
on any information to (kpodesta at redbrick dot dcu dot ie) - thank you!
Machines:
NUI Galway: SGI Origin 3800/40, SGI Altix 3700 (20 cpu), 64-way Xeon cluster, 6TB farm
NUI Maynooth: 84 cpu cluster
Boole Centre, UCC Cork: Dell cluster (100 cpu)
NMRC, UCC Cork: 2 x 96 cpu clusters
TCD Dublin: 80 cpu P3 cluster, 130 cpu Xeon cluster, 4TB farm
UCD Dublin: 256 cpu cluster (end of 2004)
DCU Dublin: 30 cpu Dell (Dual cpu PowerEdge 1750s) in CA
People:
DCU: Turlough Downes (Astrophysics), Heather Ruskin & Martin Crane (Modelling/Simulation), Mary O'Connell (Bioinformatics)
Projects:
(Grid-Ireland): CosmoGrid - computational physics, astrophysics, atmospheric
physics, gravitational waves, adaptive optics, geophysics
(Grid-Ireland): MarineGrid - data, Irish National Sea-Bed Survey (6TB of data)
(Grid-Ireland): Webcom-G - different models for computational grid execution
Organisations:
Irish Association for High Performance Computing (IAHPC)
Irish Centre for High End Computing
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, Ireland
Centre for Supercomputing in Ireland(Legacy?)
References:
Brian Coghlan, John Walsh, and David O'Callaghan (2005) "The Grid-Ireland Deployment Architecture", European Grid Conference 2005 (EGC 2005).
http://www.cs.tcd.ie/David.OCallaghan/grid/grid-ireland/architecture.pdf
ILUG archives
Academic Supercomputing in Europe: Ireland
IAHPC old webpages
Beowulf email list
Compaq in Galway
DEC/Compaq in Galway
Hitachi Dublin Laboratory
Grid Ireland
Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing (TCHPC)
Queen's University Belfast
Beowulfs used - individual student projects, production ones