iVEC currently maintains supercomputers at iVEC@Murdoch and iVEC@UWA.

  • Epic is a HP commodity linux cluster housed in a Performance Optimised Datacentre (POD) at iVEC@Murdoch. It runs CentOS 6.1, a free version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It is made up of 25 HP BladeSystem c7000 Enclosures each of which contains 16 double-dense HP ProLiant BL2x220c G6 Blades. Each of the compute node contains two hex-core Intel Xeon X5660 processors operating at 2.8 GHz with 24 GB of RAM. In total, there are 800 compute nodes providing 9600 cores and 18 TB of RAM to http://www.ivec.org/ ">iVEC researchers. Each node contains a quad data rate (QDR) Infiniband card.

  • Fornax is an SGI supercomputer comprising 96 nodes, each containing two 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 CPUs, an NVIDIA Tesla C2075 GPU and 72 GB RAM, resulting in a system containing 1152 cores and 96 GPUs. The system also has a 500 TB global filesystem, in addition to each node having 7 TB of local disk space.

Our previous supercomputers were:

  • iVEC@Murdoch, based at Murdoch University housed a SGI Altix 1300, called XE and the Pawsey Centre Project's Performance Optimised Data Centre (POD). XE is a water‐cooled, 512 core cluster with 2 GB RAM per core for a total of 1 TB RAM. It has a 10 Gb/sec Infiniband network connecting the 8 core nodes (2 x quad core Xeons) and a 10 TB Lustre filesystem. The POD 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.
  • iVEC@ARRC, A 192 CPU SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 high performance computer with 384 GB of memory, 12 TB high-speed disk and an 8 TB tape archive.
  • iVEC@UWA, located at The University of Western Australia, has recently retired a 164 processor Cray XT3 computer with 330 GB of memory and 32 TB of very high-speed disk. This is to make way for an exciting new supercomputing resource, watch this space for more information.