
Las instalaciones estarán gestionadas por la National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), una iniciativa fundada de forma conjunta por el Ministerio de Innovación, Industria, Ciencia e Investigación y la inversión de organizaciones colaboradoras, como ANU y CSIRO.
El superordenador tiene "180 módulos de servidores Sun Blade x6275 implementados en dos racks" que se ampliarán a 14 a finales de año. Según un comunicado, el sistema total, "que también impulsa el Sun Lustre Storage System y el Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 648, tendrá una capacidad de 140 Teraflops".
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The newest and most powerful supercomputer in Australia, designed to be among the 40 best in the world, will be launched in Canberra this week. With 140 Teraflops and a cost of $ 15 million, is expected to Sun Constellation, housed at the Australian National University (ANU), empowers computational research in Australia and the place further up the world rankings.
The facilities will be managed by the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), an initiative jointly funded by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and investment partner organizations, as ANU and CSIRO.
According to the Director of the NCI, Professor Lindsay Botten, the supercomputer is a key addition to computational research capabilities of Australia. "With that Australia has become the league of high performance computing," he said. "He does everything from computational biology, computational chemistry, nanotechnology, astronomy, physics and photonics, medicine, engineering or environmental sciences," he added.