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Public Category => GENERAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS => Topic started by: Daniel on March 15, 2020, 12:53:26 PM

Title: Australia's Gadi supercomputer
Post by: Daniel on March 15, 2020, 12:53:26 PM
I've just been reading about the Gadi supercomputer.

A brief overview is here ...
https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-systems (https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-systems)

It's Australia's most powerful supercomputer and is ranked 47 in the world.

A list of the worlds top 500 supercomputers is here ..
https://www.top500.org/list/2019/11/?page=1 (https://www.top500.org/list/2019/11/?page=1)

It's at the Australian National University in Canberra and was installed last year.

Here is an article with photos showing the installation process ...
https://nci.org.au/media/gadi-installation-progress (https://nci.org.au/media/gadi-installation-progress)
Title: Re: Australia's Gadi supercomputer
Post by: tazzduke on March 15, 2020, 06:01:22 PM
 :holy-moly just imagine letting this loose on a BOINC project, talk about sucking up all the work units available lol.  Oh and the payment for the power bill is upfront first please  :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
Title: Re: Australia's Gadi supercomputer
Post by: Dataman on March 16, 2020, 03:28:19 AM
Quote from: Daniel on March 15, 2020, 12:53:26 PM
I've just been reading about the Gadi supercomputer.

A brief overview is here ...
https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-systems (https://nci.org.au/our-systems/hpc-systems)

It's Australia's most powerful supercomputer and is ranked 47 in the world.

A list of the worlds top 500 supercomputers is here ..
https://www.top500.org/list/2019/11/?page=1 (https://www.top500.org/list/2019/11/?page=1)

It's at the Australian National University in Canberra and was installed last year.

Here is an article with photos showing the installation process ...
https://nci.org.au/media/gadi-installation-progress (https://nci.org.au/media/gadi-installation-progress)
Thanks Daniel.  :cheers:
Title: Re: Australia's Gadi supercomputer
Post by: chooka03 on March 18, 2020, 05:19:59 PM
Bah...they should have gone AMD EPYC processors. I guess it was too far gone to change their mind.