In the center of an Australian university is the fastest supercomputer on the continent in the use of it. The computer, with more than seven thousand Xeon processors, it should mainly be used for klimaatberekeningen.
The new supercomputer is now in the National Computational Infrastructure, the computer centre of the Australian National University. The device was by Fujitsu built, and is part of Fujitsu’s Primergy serverlijn. The supercomputer, codenamed Raijin is named after the Japanese dondergod. The name to indicate the primary scope of Raijin: the Australians will the supercomputer is mainly used to make models for climatic research, through count.
Raijin is built from 7184 Xeon E5-2670 processors from the Sandy Bridge generation which is at 2.6 GHz tap, with turbo to 3GHz or 3.3 GHz. The 57.472 cores are divided into 3592 computing nodes, each with two processors. The remaining nodes are for interaction with the user are reserved. Two-thirds of the nodes has 32GB main memory, while the remaining one third 64GB of memory per node. There are 71 nodes with 128GB memory. The total memory is approximately 160TB.
The nodes are interconnected via an Infiniband network with a bandwidth of 14Gbps. The file system is about 10PB great and the computer is running under CentOS with a Lustre filesystem. All of that is good for a computing power of roughly of 1.2 Pflops peak power. This is Raijin, the fastest supercomputer in Australia; worldwide he ends up at a 24th place.