Setonix

Setonix, a state-of-the-art HPE Cray EX supercomputer housed at Pawsey Centre. The system is built on the same architecture used in world-leading exascale supercomputer projects including Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Lumi at CSC Finland. 

Setonix is the most powerful research computer in the Southern Hemisphere and the world’s fourth greenest supercomputer as ranked in the TOP500 and Green500 lists.

The Setonix supercomputer is a hybrid system of central processing units (CPU) and graphics processing units (GPU) that are engineered to solve massively complex scientific problems.

Technical specifications

Manufacturer: HPE Cray
Model: EX Supercomputer

  •  1584 Dual 2.45GHz AMD EPYC 7763 “Milan” 64-Core CPU Nodes with 256 GB RAM
  •  16 Dual 2.45GHz AMD EPYC 7763 “Milan” 64-Core CPU Nodes with 1 TB RAM
  • 154 Single AMD EPYC 7A53 “Trento” 64-Core GPU Nodes with eight AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs and 256 GB RAM
  • 38 Single AMD EPYC 7A53 “Trento” 64-Core GPU Nodes with eight AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs and 512 GB RAM
  • Eleven Data mover nodes   
  • Thirty-One Visualization nodes
  •  Nine Login nodes 
  • Connected by HPE’s Slingshot interconnect (200Gb/sec)
  • Lustre file systems /scratch (14 PB [3 SSD, 11 HDD]), /software 
  • NFS /home   
Wajarri Yamatji visual artist Margaret Whitehurst produced the artwork for Setonix - Meteorites - inspired by the stars that shine over Wajarri country in Western Australia’s Mid-West.
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