1. Activities in the ANU Supercomputer Facility ANUSF Bob.Gingold@anu.edu.au http://anusf.anu.edu.au

2. History ANUSF established 1987 to support large scale computational projects 1990 - established first Visualization Lab in Australia – VizLab 1993 - acquired first large scale mass data storage system in Australian university

3. APAC Since 2001 operated & supported the National Facility of Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing - APAC HP Alphaserver - was 31 st fastest in world when installed. 516 processors +152 proc linux cluster

4. APAC currently out to tender for $12.5M replacement system

5. Mass Data Storage System MDSS STK Powderhorn tape silo 1.2 Petabytes potential capacity, 6000 tapes 70 Mbytes/s tape drives, 200 Gbytes/tape 5 Tbytes fast disk cache SAM-FS hierarchical storage management Connected to APAC systems and GrangeNet Small ‘off-site’ silo being installed in Chancelry

6. Mass Data Storage System Storage for computational results Storage for experimental results, eg. MACHO project GrangeNet and APAC Grid projects eg. PARADESIC, Belle, ACIGA APAC Data Projects of “National Significance” - humanities, social sciences

7. Activities Support of systems Academic Consultants - high- level support to users - algorithm, programming advice, training, data storage Vizlab - help researchers with difficult data visualizations, VR, presentations etc Fujitsu Chemistry project - 15 years

8. ANUSF’s APAC Activities National Facility APAC Grid program - –Internet Futures group, GrangeNet program –Leading national data grid program, involvement in 6 other projects –7 staff in ANUSF led by Markus Buchhorn, other ANU staff contributing APAC CT&T Program –Tools & techniques - national program led by Ben Evans Other ANU involvement APAC EOT Program - Steve Roberts, SMS

9. Further information http://nf.apac.edu.au/ http://anusf.anu.edu.au/ help@nf.apac.edu.au Levels 3 & 4 Huxley Building