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CSIRO to build second Pawsey supercomputing site08 Dec 2010Source: ITNews Supercomputing group iVEC has kicked off Stage 1B of its Pawsey Centre build, inviting industry representatives to participate in a briefing this week. The Government-backed organisation sought vendors to expand its 87.2-TeraFLOP cluster, and planned to issue a request for tender on 17 January 2011 as per CSIRO procurement guidelines. Stage 1B would be hosted at the University of Western Australia and connect to Stage 1A - a $5 million HP POD deployment at Murdoch University - via a 10Gb Ethernet connection. Last month, Stage 1A was ranked 87th on the Top500 supercomputer list, despite representing only one-fifteenth of the computing power that the $80 million Pawsey Centre would eventually provide. iVEC spokesman David Satterthwaite said the centre would be the "sum of its parts", referring to Stages 1A, 1B, and 2. The final stage would be established in a purpose-built facility next to the CSIRO's Australian Resources Research Centre in Kensington by 2013. Although Stage 1A featured HP Blade servers and 500TB of HP storage, the Pawsey Centre was "definitely not an HP-only project", and different vendors would be considered alongside HP for the next stages, Satterthwaite said. Read more here |
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