Ireland has the research demands to justify a large scale, national high-end computing facility. The Irish Centre for High-End Computing aims to fulfil that role, as well as extend both the computational capacity and computational science expertise of Ireland. ICHEC is supported by the participant institutions and provides resources to all researchers based in Irish Universities, Institures of Techology and many other research organisations.

Computers, Computer Science Programming languages in which single statements are problem or function-oriented statements that represent procedures instead of single machine code instructions. A single statement in a high level language could translate into several instructions or may call out subroutines. Typical examples are BASIC, PASCAL and C.