The fifth Irish Supercomputer List (December 2015) was released today.
There are three new installations for the fifth list for a total of 28, with two from Trinity College Dublin (#9 and 10) and one from University College Dublin (#11). The combined number of CPU cores on the current list is over 75,000. The list also shows that Ireland is following a global trend of harnessing coprocessor technologies for HPC with over one fifth of the machines on the list making use of accelerators including GPU and Xeon Phi, with a combined total of over 106,000 cores. The total performance of all machines is 678 Tflops/s.
Press clippings:
- InsideHPC: Irish Supercomputer List Reflects HPC Growth
- Silicon Republic: Trinity and UCD add to Irish supercomputer list