# Facilities

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# Facilities

Students on the course have full access to a dedicated computing laboratory, equipped with workstations, audio-visual equipment and a printer.

For developing software for their projects, students will have access to the large-scale computing resources managed by [Research IT](https://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/) (previously The Trinity Centre for High Performance Computing, TCHPC). These computers include "moloch" and "iitac". IITAC is a 346 node parallel cluster, where each node comprises two 2.4GHz Opteron processor. The nodes are connected with a high-performance Infiniband interconnect, enabling efficient parallel processing for many applications. The system was supplied by IBM and delivered in 2005. It is currently the [326th biggest computer in the world](http://www.top500.org/).

Research IT also manages a scientific visualisation facility. This installation, the only one in Ireland, has state-of-the-art 3d stereoscopic capability, and is used to help scientists and engineers gain a deeper insight into their data.

[Visit the Research IT website](https://www.tchpc.tcd.ie/)