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Activities in the ANUSupercomputer Facility
ANUSF
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
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• APAC currently out to tender for $12.5M replacement system
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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
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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
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Further information
http://nf.apac.edu.au/
http://anusf.anu.edu.au/
Levels 3 & 4 Huxley Building
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