NCI Australia’s new Gadi supercomputer has been ranked as number one in the southern hemisphere and number 47 in the world in the latest Top500 list, released last November.
The Top500 list is a ranking of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, published twice a year at major supercomputing conferences.
Housed at the Australian National University (ANU), Gadi was funded by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). This $70 million upgrade investment has brought Australia back into having one of the top 100 supercomputers in the world.
NCI’s previous supercomputer, Raijin, had fallen to number 239 on the Top500 list and was retired last month when Gadi reached its full production capacity.
NCI is excited to see where Gadi will sit in the next Top500 list, to be released in June 2020, now that the complete system can be benchmarked.
RCC partner QCIF has a share of time on Gadi for researchers at its member universities (including UQ) who wish to use Gadi this year and were either not successful in their National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) application submitted last year, or failed to apply.
If you wish to apply for QCIF’s share, please contact RCC/QCIF eResearch Analyst Dr Marlies Hankel in the first instance. She will instruct you in how to fill in the form and ascertain whether your workload is suited to Gadi or not. Also contact Marlies if you would like to know more about Gadi: m.hankel@uq.edu.au.
If you’re experiencing any problems with Gadi, read NCI’s ‘Preparing for Gadi’ webpage first and if you cannot find the answers you want there, please contact the NCI Helpdesk.
If you’re considering applying for NCMAS this year to use Gadi in 2021, or if your application last year did not go as well as expected, the sooner you contact Marlies, the better.
Note that NCMAS applications open this year on 5 August and close on 20 September.
Last month, NCI announced a new HPC resource allocation scheme for users at the upper end of computational scalability; Australasian Leadership Computing Grants are now available on Gadi.
Some information above is from an article published on the NCI website on 19 November 2019.
