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School of Mathematics and Statistics

Name Tensor
Hardware
  • 42 x SGI Altix XE320 compute nodes
  • 42 x 2 x Intel Xeon X5472 (Quad Core 3.0GHz); 336 cores
  • 36 x 16GB memory; 6 x 24GB memory
  • InfiniBand DDR 4X and Gigabit interconnect
Users Research staff and postgraduates from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Australian School of Business, Climate Change Research Centre and Department of Aviation.
Purpose Scientific computing.
Academic Contact Rob Womersley (r.womersley@unsw.edu.au)
Technical Contact Martin Thompson (helpdesk@maths.unsw.edu.au)
URL www.hpc.maths.unsw.edu.au
Name Matrix
Hardware
  • 26 x IBM eServer 325 compute nodes
  • 26 x 2 x AMD Opteron 246 (Single Core 2.0GHz); 52 cores
  • 19 x 4GB memory; 7 x 6GB memory
  • Gigabit interconnect
Users Research staff and postgraduates from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, Australian School of Business, Climate Change Research Centre and Department of Aviation.
Purpose Scientific computing.
Academic Contact Rob Womersley (r.womersley@unsw.edu.au)
Technical Contact Martin Thompson (helpdesk@maths.unsw.edu.au)
URL www.hpc.maths.unsw.edu.au

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Name Newton
Hardware
  • 84 cores = 26 CPUs = 13 systems
  • 193GHz = 5 x 8 x 2.6GHz + 3 x 8 x 2.3GHz + 4 x 4 x 1.8GHz + 4 x 1GHz
  • 208GB memory = 13 x 16GB
  • 2.96TB storage = 8 x 250GB + 4 x (37GB + 147GB) + 1 x (73GB + 147GB)
  • Gigabit ethernet interconnect
Users Research staff and postgraduate students
Purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics research using ANSYS CFX/Fluent.
Academic Contact Victoria Timchenko (v.timchenko@unsw.edu.au)
Technical Contact Sam Lor (s.lor@unsw.edu.au)
URL newton.mech.unsw.edu.au/ganglia/
Name Navier
Hardware
  • 18 Cores = 9 systems
  • 33.48GHz = 18 x 1.86 GHz
  • 36GB memory = 9 x 4GB
  • 2.25TB storage = 9 x 250GB
  • Gigabit ethernet interconnect
Users Teaching staff and undergraduate students
Purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics teaching using ANSYS CFX/Fluent to offload processing from computer laboratories to free up Windows PCs for interactive use.
Academic Contact Tracie Barber (t.barber@unsw.edu.au)
Technical Contact Sam Lor (s.lor@unsw.edu.au)
URL navier.mech.unsw.edu.au/ganglia/
Name Leonardi (in procurement)
Hardware
  • 20 Cores = 10 systems
  • 68GHz = 20 x 3.4 GHz
  • 40GB memory = 10 x 4GB
  • 3.2TB storage = 10 x 320GB
  • Gigabit ethernet interconnect
Users Research staff
Purpose Computational Fluid Dynamics consulting using ANSYS CFX/Fluent.
Academic Contact Tracie Barber (t.barber@unsw.edu.au)
Technical Contact Sam Lor (s.lor@unsw.edu.au)
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School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences

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