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SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the big-iron-from-down-under dept.

Sean Burford writes "The South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC) has unveiled its new AU$1.7 Million supercomputer named Hydra. It is an IBM 1350 Linux cluster with 126 compute nodes (xSeries 335), 1 head node (xSeries 335), 1 storage node (xSeries 345) and 1 managment node (xSeries 345). Hydra has a peak theoretical performance of 1.2 Teraflops, and has currently benchmarked at 682 Gigaflops. The current benchmark places it in the fastest three supercomputers in Australia and equivalent to the current number 80 in the world. The cluster has a total of 258 2.4Ghz Intel Xeon processors and 258GB of RAM. SAPAC expects to achieve a benchmark closer to 700 Gigaflops with further tuning. Hydra is hosted at The University Of Adelaide, who already host a 40 node cluster of Sun e420 machines."

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  1. if I didn't, someone else would have.... by sweeney37 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nahhh, that's not a computer. Now this, this is a computer.

    Mike

    1. Re:if I didn't, someone else would have.... by deadsaijinx* · · Score: 4, Funny

      ooooh, and it even comes in designer colors. Sexy

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  2. By crikey mate this specimen is enormous... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    be very, very careful around this one mate.
    It is very, very dangerous.

    Look at the size of the heatsink on that one!

    And this buggers attck fast. And I mean real fast.

    Crikey!

  3. How long... by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 4, Funny
    ...til somebody asks it, and it replies:

    42.

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  4. yeah but by toddhunter · · Score: 5, Funny

    They are still going to have to upgrade when Doom 3 comes out

  5. Life in the fast lane.... by MrCreosote · · Score: 4, Funny

    At least now there is one thing that goes fast in Adelaide.

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  6. Re:Why aren't they using Athlons? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They must be worried about Global Warming.

  7. Re:imagine by cyril3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    nobody says doolally anymore mate. It's all so bloody American nowadays. The word is fuckers.

  8. compensating for something? by lingqi · · Score: 4, Funny
    Last place I worked, each developer got his own personal 16-processor machine with 8 GB of RAM for application testing. These weren't servers. They were workstations, individual workstations for individual developers to use.

    Aww that's nothing. Last place I worked everybody - including the janitorial staff, had their own robotic assistants modeled after Natalie Portman, and the personal computers everyone used for were liquid nitrogen cooled Cray with 295 GaAs based processors, and just over half a TB of memory pre system. That and the computers were connected to dual 40" OLED panels capable of 3640x2400 resolution each at 1500:1 contrast. Every system had neurological with supplimental eye-tracking input systems so you can think about moving the cursor in the 3D desktop and it would be done before you finished thinking about it. And that's only the computer for just reading and writing email! you should see the stuff we used for application development and integration testing. Pff.

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