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$1 million investment to boost supercomputer

Thursday, 14 December 2017

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide is investing another $1 million to increase the capacity of its world-class supercomputer, in order to meet growing demand and ensure researchers continue to have access to high-performance computing (HPC) services.

The ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ launched its ‘Phoenix’ supercomputer in 2016, giving researchers as much as 30 times more computing power than before. Since then, demand has increased by 300%, with 30 new researchers utilising its capacity every month – and this growth is expected to continue.

“With the rising complexity of research, high performance computing power is an essential tool for our researchers and collaborators to keep producing world-class research and innovation,” says ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Interim Vice-Chancellor Professor Mike Brooks.

“We’ve seen that not only is demand for computational support increasing rapidly, users are becoming more diverse, with significant take-up in the arts and professions.”

The new investment will double storage capacity to 700 terabytes and increase processing speed by 50% to 450 teraflops.

“Already we’ve seen that HPC has dramatically lifted research performance and assisted in attracting computational researchers, international collaborations and industry partnerships,” says Professor Brooks.

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