Our petascale supercomputer, Magnus (Latin for ‘Great’), is the only public access research Cray XC40 in Australia. Magnus has been designed specifically to tackle the largest simulations currently possible, at previously unimaginable resolutions.
It currently provides high-end computing capability to projects across the entire spectrum of scientific fields. Magnus provides a software stack highly attuned to its hardware, allowing researchers to solve data simulations faster and more easily.
Manufacturer: Cray Inc. (USA)
Model: XC40 Series Supercomputer
Compute Processors: Intel Xeon E5-2690V3 “Haswell” processors (12-core, 2.6 GHz)
Computing Power: 1,097 TeraFLOPS (1 PetaFLOP+).
Memory: 93 Terabytes (64 GB of DDR4-2133 per compute node).
Interconnect: Cray Aries interconnect, at 72 gigabits/sec per node
Network Topology: Cray Dragonfly – 56% populated
Nodes: 1488 (35,712 processor cores, two compute processors per node)
Weight: 1.7 tonnes/cabinet
Power consumption: circa. 50 kWatts/cabinet
Local storage: Sonexion 1600 Data Storage System, 3 Petabytes, w/ 70 GB/sec sustained r/w performance
Supercomputers to reflect different workflows and user requirements
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