Dr Turlough Downes, DCU School of Mathematical Sciences and Dr Niall English, UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering.
Computational scientist, Dr Niall English, UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering has been awarded significant access to powerful prototypes in a new European supercomputing system.
The award was made by PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe). PRACE was established to provide European scientists and technologists with internationally competitive supercomputers. The system, which is part-funded by the EU’s 7th Framework Programme, will provide supercomputing resources 40 times more powerful than Ireland’s existing supercomputing cluster when fully operational next year.
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC), the representative body in Ireland for the PRACE project, supported the researchers with their successful proposals. Commenting on the achievement, Prof Jim Slevin, Director, Irish Centre for High-End Computing said: ‘Our computational scientists, with the help and support of ICHEC staff, are successfully competing for these new EU state-of-the-art compute resources. SFI and HEA research funding programmes are clearly creating a cadre of computational modellers who are highly successful in international competitions for resources.’
Of the three applications approved for access to the supercomputers, two successful applications from Ireland were awarded 95% of the total resources on offer in this pan-European call.
Dr Niall English will use his approved allocation to examine the feasibility of using Carr-Parrinello Molecular Dynamics methods on very large machines to simulate interfaces of biological systems with nanomaterials. The other successful applicant from Ireland, Dr Turlough Downes, DCU School of Mathematical Sciences will use his allocation to further his work on the HYDRA astrophysics code which incorporates the effects of magnetic fields and multi fluid effects.
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