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September 28, 2011 08:05 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/xYZhcz_BzQ4/New-Supercomputer-Boosts-Aussie-SKA-Telescope-Bid
New Supercomputer Boosts Aussie SKA Telescope Bid
angry tapir writes "Australian academic supercomputing consortium iVEC has acquired another major supercomputer, Fornax, to be based at the University of Western Australia, to further the country's ability to conduct data-intensive research. The SGI GPU-based system, also known as iVEC@UWA, is made up of 96 nodes, each containing two 6-core Intel Xeon X5650 CPUs, an NVIDIA Tesla C2050 GPU, 48 GB RAM and 7TB of storage. All up, the system has 1152 cores, 96 GPUs and an additional dedicated 500TB fabric attached storage-based global filesystem. The system is a boost to the Australian-NZ bid to host the Square Kilometer Array radio telescope." 
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