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Access to IBM’s Large Scale Supercomputing Facilities

Dr Turlough Downes, NCPST/DIAS has been granted access to large-scale supercomputing facilities belonging to IBM in their centre in Rochester, USA. This access is for the purposes of gaining a deeper understanding of the behaviour of gas and dust in our galaxy, particularly with reference to how this gas and dust ultimately forms stars such as our own sun. Initially the access will be to a system with 8192 cores, but this will be upgraded in January 2009 to one with 16384 cores. Dr Downes and one other Irish researcher have been granted this access as a result of their work on the ICHEC-owned Blue Gene systems.