NCI can trace its lineage back through three stages of the evolution of high-end computing services in Australia.

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Early Years
1987-1998

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APAC Years
1999-2006

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NCI Years
2007 onwards

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Evolution in HPC capacity over 25 years in Australia.

Performance (TFlops)

Summary of the Growth of Capability of HPC Systems at NCI (and antecedents) from 1987

System (Name) Processor Memory Storage Peak Perf. Sustained Perf. (Spec) Initial top 500 rank
1987–1992 Fujitsu VP100 Vector 64 MByte - 0.15 GFlops - -
1992–1996 Fujitsu VP2200 Vector 512 MByte 27 GByte 1.25 GFlops - -
1996–2001 Fujitsu VPP Vector/ Scalar 14 GByte - 28 GFlops - 59
SGI Power Challenge XL 20 MIPS R10000 2 GByte 77 GByte 6.4 GFlops - -
2001–2005 Compaq/HP Alphaserver (sc) 512 DEC Alpha 0.5 TByte 12TByte 1 TFlop 2,000 31
2005–2009 SGI Altix 3700 (ac) 1920 Intel Itanium 5.5 TByte 100 TByte 14 TFlop 21,000 26
2009–2013 SGI Altix XE (xe) 1248 Intel Xeon (Nehalem) 2.5 TByte 90 TByte 14 TFlop 12,000 -
2009–2013 Sun/Oracle Constellation (Vayu) 11,936 Intel Xeon (Nehalem) 37 TByte 800 TByte 140 TFlop 240,000 35
2013–2017 Fujitsu Primergy (Raijin) 57,472 Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge) 160 TByte 12.5 PByte 1.195 PFlop 1,600,000 24
2017-2019 Fujitsu Primergy/Lenovo NeXtScale (Raijin) 87,224 Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge, Broadwell) 300 TByte 50 PByte 1.670 PFlop 70
2019-present Fujitsu (Gadi) 145,152 Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake), NVIDIA V100 567 Tbyte 60 PByte 9.260 PFlop 25

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