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Dude, you're getting a Dell! Uni of Queensland adds AU$275,000 cluster

HPC for bio, engineering, nanotech

The University of Queensland is the latest contributor to Australia's academic high-performance computing boom, with a AU$275,000 ($238k) cluster going live late in September.

Installed at the University's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), the new cluster has nine Dell PowerEdge R620s. Each runs two Intel Xeon 2.8 GHz units with ten cores each and 128 GB of memory.

There are also four PowerEdge R720s (two Xeon 2.8 GHz ten-core units), each with one 61-core Xeon Phi co-processor, giving a total of 260 CPU cores and 240 Phi cores.

There's also one login node and one queue node, provided by PowerEdge R620s, and two R620s for storage nodes. A 60-drive PowerVault MD3460 fitted with 3 TB disks for user I/O and scratch file storage. The cluster will be running CentOS with Rocks management.

The kit was funded by a major infrastructure grant from the university, along with money from the National Health and Medical Research Council.

As well as the AIBN, the machine will be used by the university's science, engineering, architecture and IT faculties, supporting research into a range of computational modelling problems. The university says the box will also host the AIBN's stem cell research collaboration platform, Stemformatics.org. ®

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