A supercomputer is a high performance computing machine designed to work at extremely fast processing speeds. Supercomputers have many applications, including modelling simulations, performing complex scientific calculations, and rendering high definition 3D graphics. 

The supercomputing hardware currently managed by iVEC includes:

  • The first supercomputer funded under the Pawsey Project is located at iVEC@Murdoch. It is an energy-efficient 87.20 TeraFLOPS system (1 TeraFLOPS = one trillion floating point operations per second), using HP ProLiant Blade servers with 1600 of the latest generation Intel® Xeon® 5600 processors, totalling 9,600 cores and with 500 terabytes of high-performance storage all connected via 4x infiniband.
  • A 192 CPU SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 high performance computer with 366 GB of memory, 12 TB high-speed disk and an 8 TB tape archive, located at iVEC@ARRC.

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