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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."

5 of 227 comments (clear)

  1. Sad thing is... by Crasoum · · Score: 0, Troll

    So few understand the humor in this.

  2. Re:By crikey mate this specimen is enormous... by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 0, Troll

    Watch as I shove my finger, right up his arse. Woo ! Hey ! Oh, he didn't like that one, no sir-ee.

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  3. Re:So who gives a shit? by nzyank · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah, mod me off topic. Fucking idiot. The topic was the world's 80th fastest computer and I replied. 'who gives a shit' which is very much on topic because it's a waste to come on /. to see interesting stuff and see this crap instead.

  4. Re:Australian rules powers of 2^38B or what? by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I was merely making a joke, meant nothing by it. But now I believe all Australians are touchy, arrogant, xenophobic, and humorless.

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  5. Re:Australian rules powers of 2^38B or what? by cybermace5 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I would like to add "clueless" and "gullible" to my list above.

    Though I have spoken to quite a few Australians recently, and for the most part they seem to think Americans are OK. So maybe my list applies to "people who are intellectually handicapped and believe whatever mainstream tripe is thrown at them under the guise of being jaded and exposing the mainstream tripe."

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