Activities in the ANUSupercomputer 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

• 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/

help@nf.apac.edu.au

Levels 3 & 4 Huxley Building

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