DIAS is delighted as a major supporter and co-founder of the Irish Centre for High-End Computing, to have hosted the announcement of the name of the new Irish supercomputer “Fionn” by Minister Sean Sherlock in Dunsink Observatory as part of Science Week 2013.
l-r: Dr Dennis Jennings (ICHEC), Professor Luke Drury (DIAS), Professor James Slevin (ICHEC), Professor Jean-Christophe Desplat (ICHEC)
Oscar O’Donaghue pictured with Minister Sean Sherlock TD, Minister for Research and Innovation, introduces Fionn, a name chosen by Oscar in ICHEC’s ‘Name our Computer’ competition. The name stems from Fionnachtana (Irish for discovery) and Fionn mac Cumhaill.
