Perth’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has released a timelapse video (below)showing the increase in firepower of Australia’s national digital and data research infrastructure.
Phase 1 of a $70 million spend to improve data availability, data transfer speed, and overall storage capacity, the video shows the installation of SetonixHPC with computational power comparable to 150,000 PCs working in parallel.
Pawsey took to social media to say: “Delivery, construction and commissioning is a complicated process with many expert hands involved.”
The nationally funded research supercomputing centre will become home to one of the largest research-focused storage systems in the world as part of the facility’s capital refresh project.
Suppliers Dell and Xenon will install 130 petabytes of online and offline storage.
A disk-based system powered by Dell will provide 60PB of high-speed object storage for hosting research data online.
Offline storage provided by Xenon will incorporate Pawsey’s current object storage infrastructure, including two mirrored libraries each holding 70PB of data, duplicated for data security.
Picture: Pawsey
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