Development of a High Performance Computing Cluster for ac3 Research

该申请建议开发一个350 Gflop的Beowulf并行计算集群，该集群将支持具有国际意义的高水平研究，跨越科学和技术领域，并根据政府和ARC确定的国家优先领域。该设施将为新南威尔士州的聚合和峰值高性能计算能力提供急需的提升，从而促进下一代计算研究问题的解决。在此过程中，它将通过在光子学、复杂/智能系统、纳米技术、生物信息学、量子物理和化学、工程和环境建模等不同领域的世界排名小组来支持创新。

This application proposes the development of a 350 Gflop Beowulf parallel computing cluster that will support high profile research of international significance, spanning the science and technology spectrum, and according with national priority areas identified by Government and the ARC. The facility will provide an urgently needed boost in both aggregate and peak HPC capacity in NSW, thereby facilitating the solution of the next generation of computational research problems. In doing so, it will underpin innovation by world ranking groups in diverse fields such as photonics, complex/intelligent systems, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, quantum physics and chemistry, engineering, and environmental modelling.