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Activities in the ANU Supercomputer Facility ANUSF. Bob.Gingold@anu.edu.au http://anusf.anu.edu.au. History. ANUSF established 1987 to support large scale computational projects 1990 - established first Visualization Lab in Australia – VizLab
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Activities in the ANUSupercomputer FacilityANUSF Bob.Gingold@anu.edu.au http://anusf.anu.edu.au
History • ANUSF established 1987 to support large scale computational projects • 1990 - established first Visualization Lab in Australia – VizLab • 1993 - acquired first large scale mass data storage system in Australian university
APAC • Since 2001 operated & supported theNational Facility of Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing - APAC • HP Alphaserver - was 31st fastest in world when installed. 516 processors +152 proc linux cluster
Mass Data Storage System MDSS • STK Powderhorn tape silo • 1.2 Petabytes potential capacity, 6000 tapes • 70 Mbytes/s tape drives, 200 Gbytes/tape • 5 Tbytes fast disk cache • SAM-FS hierarchical storage management • Connected to APAC systems and GrangeNet • Small ‘off-site’ silo being installed in Chancelry
Mass Data Storage System • Storage for computational results • Storage for experimental results, eg. MACHO project • GrangeNet and APAC Grid projects eg. PARADESIC, Belle, ACIGA • APAC Data Projects of “National Significance” - humanities, social sciences
Activities • Support of systems • Academic Consultants - high-level support to users - algorithm, programming advice, training, data storage • Vizlab - help researchers with difficult data visualizations, VR, presentations etc • Fujitsu Chemistry project - 15 years
ANUSF’s APAC Activities • National Facility • APAC Grid program - • Internet Futures group, GrangeNet program • Leading national data grid program, involvement in 6 other projects • 7 staff in ANUSF led by Markus Buchhorn, other ANU staff contributing • APAC CT&T Program • Tools & techniques - national program led by Ben Evans • Other ANU involvementAPAC EOT Program - Steve Roberts, SMS
Further information http://nf.apac.edu.au/ http://anusf.anu.edu.au/ help@nf.apac.edu.au Levels 3 & 4 Huxley Building