Australia to get 2 state-of-the-art super-computing clusters (1 Viewer)

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

The Bureau of Meteorology and the ANU will each receive a supercomputing cluster, cumulatively worth $30 million dollars, to be fully online within the next 4 years.

The ANU one will be the fastest supercomputer in the southern hemisphere and in the top 30 in the world. Sun Microsystems (known for Java and Solaris) will be providing them, and they will operate on entirely Open Source software.

The BoM cluster will be used for increased modelling accuracy (including things like bush fires) as well as modelling parallelism (computing both climate and weather at once instead of one or the other), while the ANU cluster will be used for crunching data from the BoM computer as well as things like photonics, nanotech and molecular biology data (for e.g. Alzheimer's disease).

Score one Australia's scientific community.

Source (worth reading): Weather supercomputer announced for BOM and ANU | News | News.com.au

On a related note, IBM is about to buy Sun Microsystems. Even though Sun is miniscule compared to IBM, it has a host of patents, assets, and market niches which would be invaluable to IBM. Great news.

 

[Nebuchanezzar]

Uni of Queensland is receiving a 900MHz nmr machine

that's pretty exciting.

[Queensland NMR Network] site, The University of Queensland

 

[4lettersdown]

lets hope they dont use it to look up child porn, or browse 4chan...

 

[youngminii]

The top 29 fastest computers in the world are in the northern hemisphere? Damn the South sucks.

 

[mrcalkin]

The top 29 fastest computers in the world are in the northern hemisphere? Damn the South sucks.

its mainly AUS, NZ, and south america in southern hemisphere, so not much competition.

 

[SnowFox]

its mainly AUS, NZ, and south america in southern hemisphere, so not much competition.

If South America was to get a SCC before us, id shit myself.

 

[zstar]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[SnowFox]

But can it run Crysis?

Put in a HD4870 and watch it project Crysis in 3D mode


OOOHHH YEEAAAH /duff man voice

 

[S.H.O.D.A.N.]

The top 29 fastest computers in the world are in the northern hemisphere? Damn the South sucks.

More accurately, like 25 of the top 30 fastest computers in the world are in the US. If you look at the list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers, it's absolutely amazing how much raw computational power America has compared to the rest of the world. Certainly more than 50% of the clusters are American.

In fact, before this, the fastest supercomputer in the south was in New Zealand. Australia's been lagging for a while. This rectifies the situation (being about 7 times faster than NZ's old one). If we were going by the November 2008 supercomputer list, the ANU's planned one would rank about 10th fastest in the world, but I'm guessing the 'top 30' figure comes from the predicted ranking upon its completion.

 

[youngminii]

More accurately, like 25 of the top 30 fastest computers in the world are in the US. If you look at the list of the top 500 fastest supercomputers, it's absolutely amazing how much raw computational power America has compared to the rest of the world. Certainly more than 50% of the clusters are American.

In fact, before this, the fastest supercomputer in the south was in New Zealand. Australia's been lagging for a while. This rectifies the situation (being about 7 times faster than NZ's old one). If we were going by the November 2008 supercomputer list, the ANU's planned one would rank about 10th fastest in the world, but I'm guessing the 'top 30' figure comes from the predicted ranking upon its completion.

Lol war of the computers.