The vision of the Digital Enterprise Research Institute is to be recognised as the leading international web science research institute interlinking technologies, information and people to advance business and benefit society.

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.