Ireland’s mysterious supercomputer Kay, which caused a stir in the Dáil chamber this week, sounds like a whizz-bang device from a James Bond movie. In some respects it was: it operated in what has been described as the core of the fifth industrial revolution.
Her namesake in Galway was used for functions including increased resolution in weather and climate forecasting for Met Éireann as well as larger and longer simulations for research in areas such as medical device development, nanotechnology , genomics and drug design.Kay was also capable of running a variety of workflows at the same time which required large computing power and vast amounts of memory.
EU hurdles were cleared; Ireland was set to get a supercomputer called CASPIr . Details surrounding the expected timeline were not shared, though it was described as being as much as 25 times more powerful than Kay. “Irish researchers, assisted by the ICHEC team, now have dedicated access to MeluXina, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe.”
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