IRELAND: IBM forms research partnership with universities

IBM has formed a multi-million euro partnership with Irish universities to research massively powerful super-computers which it expects to change the future of computing, reports The Irish Times.

Under the agreement, from next January 40 researchers will be employed at Trinity College Dublin, the Tyndall National Institute in Cork, National University of Ireland Galway, University College Cork and the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology to work on the project.

Each institute will be involved in a different component of the research related to its own area of expertise with the ultimate aim of producing computers that are 500 million times more powerful than the typical home PC.
Full report on The Irish Times site