Welcome to EuroCC Ireland, the European HPC Competency Centre for Ireland
EuroCC Ireland is hosted by the Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC). It is the National Competence Centre (NCC) for Ireland, currently supported by the EuroHPC Competence Centres 2 project. NCC Ireland plays a key role in fostering HPC expertise, adoption, industry collaboration,and digital innovation in Ireland. Through various programmes and services, it supports SMEs, academia, and public administration in leveraging advanced computing technologies.
NCC Ireland provides the following key programmes/services:
Training and Skills Development
NCC Ireland has been developing micro-credential courses that are designed with industry skills needs in mind, where the course syllabus and learning outcomes are derived in consultation with industry and SMEs. These include the Quantum Programming Foundations micro-credential course that was launched in 2024. Other micro-credential courses, as well as more general training courses, are also being developed and offered by NCC Ireland.
SME Accelerator Programme
The SME Accelerator programme aims to promote HPC usage and adoption among Irish SMEs. ICHEC provides varying levels of support, from consultancy to compute resources in areas related to HPC/HPDA/AI.
Digital Innovation Flagship Programme
This programme was launched in 2023 in order to promote cross-sectoral (academia, public sector, industry including SMEs) collaboration on HPC/HPDA/AI topics. It aims to build up national competences in the usage and adoption of modern HPC paradigms such as Digital Twins, AI-coupled simulations and data-centric workloads/workflows.
How is it funded?
EuroCC 2 is funded by the European Commission’s Digital Europe Programme as part of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking and through national funding programmes within the partner countries. NCC Ireland is co-funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
Acknowledgement
EuroCC 2 has received funding from the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) under grant agreement No 101101903. The JU receives support from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme and Germany, Bulgaria, Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Norway, Türkiye, Republic of North Macedonia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia.
