From UL's excellent research office, I am told that
The University of Limerick, in conjunction with NUI Galway, has recently purchased a share in the Stokes cluster, located in UCD’s data centre. This facility, managed by the Irish Centre for High-End computing (ICHEC), provides a total of 3840 cores and 7680GB of RAM available for jobs, UL has purchased a share of this giving access to 96 compute cores of the latest 2.8GHz Intel Westmere processor and 192 GB RAM. Access to this facility is now streamlined so that UL researchers can apply directly through the Research Office for access to this resource rather than having to apply for access through ICHEC.
What cool things can I ask this behemoth to do?
Grand Theft Auto must be brilliant on it. Seriously, I used a UCD super computer once for some econometrics where a PC wasn't up to but it was a bit of a pain to get going. For numerically intensive work like Monte Carlo simulations or where you are evaluating high dimensional integrals it might be useful.
Owning your own supercomputer? Man, that is SO 2000s. Get with the 2010s, infrastructure is a utility and so on... IBM et al have supercomputing on demand!
@kevin, yep, GTA is going to rock on this system--I'm thinking some kind of huge system of equations for a stock-flow consistent macroeconomy.
@Ronan, it looks like we're renting it. Maybe there's a Daft report section out there for supercomputer renting?
What do you want to do ?
Monte Carlo simulations using Octave or R (its got good libs for MLEs)?
We're not running Mathematica or Mathlab as of yet but sign up for a project and I'll see what we can sort.
Talk to John G as I've been bugging him about high frequency analysis of that FSTE data.
Talk to Richard C in the Research Office and apply for an account to get started. The joy is that it won't cost a cent.
@Eoin,
I've got simulations in Mathematica I'd like to use, but I guess they could be re-written as Octave rather easily. The high-frequency stuff I've done is pretty limited--my paper with Fergal O'Brien is about the height of it, but I'm well up for using the resource fully.
@Stephen: You could also port them to SAGE(http://www.sagemath.org/doc/faq/faq-general.html#why-does-this-project-exist, http://wstein.org/mathsoftbio/history.pdf) as I'm fairly sure we could offer this in short order if required. Email Richard and get yourself an account and have a read of http://www.ichec.ie/support/tutorials/getting_started.pdf and http://www.ichec.ie/support/faq. This should cover most of the issues as the systems are fairly user friend once you get used to the idea of using the module command (e.g. module load octave) on the command line.
If there are a couple more people you can get signed up, then its simple for us to come down and do an introduction course to HPC (http://www.ichec.ie/education_training/training_courses/) to make sure you can all get started. Again - costs nothing to you as it is part of our training remit.
@Eoin, brilliant, will have a think over the weekend and get back to you .