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HPC facility in Canberra, Australia
The National Computational Infrastructure building at the Australian National University in 2013
The National Computational Infrastructure (also known as NCI or NCI Australia ) is a high-performance computing and data services facility, located at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra , Australian Capital Territory . The NCI is supported by the Australian Government's National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), with operational funding provided through a formal collaboration incorporating CSIRO , the Bureau of Meteorology , the Australian National University , Geoscience Australia , the Australian Research Council , and a number of research intensive universities and medical research institutes.[citation needed
Access to computational resources is provided to funding partners as well as researchers awarded grants under the National Computing Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS).[1] [2]
The current director is Sean Smith .[3] [4]
Notable staff
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Facility
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The NCI building is located on the ANU campus in Canberra and uses hot aisle containment and free cooling to cool their computers.[2]
Computer systems
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As of June 2020, NCI operates two main high-performance computing installations, including:
Gadi , meaning 'to search for' in the local Ngunnawal language.[6] [4]
145,152 cores (Intel Xeon Scalable 'Cascade Lake' processors) across 3024 nodes
160 nodes containing four Nvidia V100 GPUs
567 Terabytes of main memory
20 Petabytes of fast storage
47 Petabytes of storage for large data files
50 Petabytes of tape storage for archival
HDR Mellanox Infiniband in Dragonfly+ topology (up to 200 Gbit/s transfer)
Tenjin , a 67 TeraFLOP bespoke high-performance partner cloud, consisting of:
1600 Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge cores
25 Terabytes main memory
160 Terabytes State Disk
Data services and storage
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NCI operates the fastest filesystems in the Southern Hemisphere. 20 Petabytes of storage is available for fast I/O, 47 Petabytes is available for large data and research files, and 50 Petabytes is available on tape for archival.
Datasets
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NCI hosts multiple data sets that can be used on their computation systems including:
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Data Archive (ATSIDA) which provides Australian Indigenous research data[7]
Australian Astronomy Optical Data Repository (ODR) including:
Australian National Geophysical Collection (300 TB in 2015) including:
High resolution 'raw' Indian Ocean sea floor data generated as part of the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 .[10]
Research
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Research conducted or under way includes:[11]
History
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NCI Australia is a direct descendant of the ANU Supercomputing Facility ANUSF, which existed from 1987 through to 1999. At the turn of the new millennium, the Australian Government pushed ahead with a process to form the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC), the foundation of which would be built around a new national computational infrastructure. With its heritage in supercomputing, it was decided that the APAC National Facility would be located at The Australian National University, with the facility ultimately commissioned in 2001.
In 2007, APAC began its evolution into the present NCI collaboration.
The below table is a comprehensive history of supercomputer specifications present at the NCI and its antecedents.
System specifications
Performance
Years active
InitialTop500
Name
Processor
Memory
Storage
Peak
Sustained
Introduced
Retired
Fujitsu VP100
Vector
64 MB
0.15 GFLOPS
1987
1992
—
Fujitsu VP2200
Vector
512 MB
27 GB
1.25 GFLOPS
1992
1996
—
Fujitsu VPP
Vector /Scalar
14 GB
28 GFLOPS
1996
2001
59
SGI Power Challenge XL 20 MIPS R10000
2 GB
77 GB
6.4 GFLOPS
—
Compaq/HP Alphaserver sc )
512DEC Alpha
0.5 TB
12 TB
1 TFLOPS
2,000
2001
2005
31
SGI Altix 3700[5] ac )
1,920Intel Itanium
5.5 TB
100 TB
14 TFLOPS
21,000
2005
2009
26
SGI Altix XE xe )
1,248Intel Xeon Nehalem )
2.5 TB
90 TB
14 TFLOPS
12,000
2009
2013
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Sun/Oracle Constellation (Vayu)[5] 11,936Intel Xeon Nehalem )
37 TB
800 TB
140 TFLOPS
240,000
2009
2013
35
Fujitsu Primergy (Raijin)[9] 57,472Intel Xeon Sandy Bridge )
160 TB
12.5 PB
1.195 PFLOPS
1,600,000
2013
2019
24
Fujitsu Primergy CX2570 (Gadi)[4] 145,152Intel Xeon Cascade Lake )
576 TB
20 PB
9.26 PFLOPS
2020
In use
24
Vayu
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The Vayu computer cluster , the predecessor of Raijin, was based on a Sun Microsystems Sun Constellation System . The Vayu system was taken from Sun's code name for the compute blade within the system. Vayu is a Hindu god, the name meaning "wind". The cluster was officially launched on 2009-11-16 by the Government of Australia's Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator Kim Carr, after provisional acceptance on 2009-09-18.
Vayu was first operated in September 2009 with one eighth of the final computing power, with the full system commissioned in March 2010. Vayu had the following performance characteristics:[12]
Peak performance: 140 TFLOPS
Sustained: 250K SPECfp rate
Resources: 110M hrs p.a.
The system comprised:[13]
11936 CPUs in 1,492 nodes in Sun X6275 blades, each containing
total: 36.9 TB of RAM on compute nodes
Dual socket, quad-core Sun X4170, X4270, X4275 servers for Lustre fileserving
approx 835 TB of global user storage
Power consumption of the full 11936 CPU system was approx 605 kW green energy sources.[14]
System software for the Vayu cluster includes:[13]
The national government has provided around A$ 26m to enable the building of the centre and installation of Vayu.[15] Australian Bureau of Meteorology , Australian National University , and the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation , cooperating using an integrated computational environment for the earth systems sciences, including investigating aspects of operational weather forecasting through to climate modelling and prediction. The ANU and CSIRO each subscribed about A$ 3m, thereby getting about a quarter of the machine.[14] [14] [15]
See also
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References
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^ a b "Byte me: An inside look at Australia's supercomputer" . ABC News . 9 July 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2022 .
^ a b c "NCI supercomputing facility names new director" . Computerworld . Retrieved 12 August 2022 .
^ a b c "ANU supercomputer to answer big questions" . The Canberra Times . 4 August 2019. Retrieved 12 August 2022 .
^ a b c "Australia's new supercomputer outflops the lot" . The Age . 16 November 2009. Retrieved 16 August 2022 .
^ "Gadi, Australia's new supercomputer, ranks 25th most powerful in the world" . ABC News . 22 June 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2022 .
^ Turner, Murray. "UC Library Guides: Statistics: Key Resources: Australian Statistics" . canberra.libguides.com . Retrieved 13 August 2022 .
^ a b "HPC – Astronomy Australia Limited" . Retrieved 13 August 2022 .
^ a b c d Jingbo Wang; Evans, Ben; Bastrakova, Irina; Kemp, Carina; Fraswer, Ryan; Wyborn, Lesley (2015). "Bringing Australian Geophysical Data onto a High Performance Data Node at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)" . doi :10.13140/RG.2.2.16377.06240 .
^ Geoscience Australia (17 July 2017). "The data behind the search for MH370: Phase One data released" . www.ga.gov.au . Retrieved 13 August 2022 .
^ "Research Highlights - National Computational Infrastructure" . National Computational Infrastructure . Retrieved 25 June 2020 .
^ Current Peak System , nci.org.au, accessed 2009-11-17
^ a b Sun Constellation cluster, vayu: System Details , nci.org.au, accessed 2010-03-18
^ a b c Australia's new supercomputer outflops the lot , The Age , 2009-11-16, accessed 2009-11-17
^ a b ANU National Computational Infrastructure National Facility (speech) , Senator Kim Carr , 2009-11-16, accessed 2009-11-17
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