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Australia.</h2></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type-block-embed paragraph--view-mode-default"> <div id="block-chartssinglechart" class="block block-nci-chart-blocks block-nci-charts-blocks-single"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col"> <h3>Performance (TFlops)</h3> <div class="content"> <canvas id="chart673e9ce67e68e" class="chart-canvas" role="img" aria-label="Visual graphic statistics"></canvas> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="paragraph paragraph--type-section paragraph--view-mode-default section-white prev-section--section-blue prev-section--first-type--text_area prev-section--last-type--block_embed same-section--first-type--text_area same-section--last-type--table"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type-text-area paragraph--view-mode-default"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-lg-10 offset-lg-1 col-xl-8 offset-xl-2"> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-body field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><h2 class="text-align-center">Summary of the Growth of Capability of HPC Systems at NCI (and antecedents) from 1987</h2></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type-table paragraph--view-mode-default mt-4 mt-lg-5 table-style-default"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div class="col"> <div class="field field-name-field-table"><div id="tablefield-wrapper-paragraph-424-field_table-0" class="tablefield-wrapper"> <div class="table-responsive"> <table id="tablefield-paragraph-424-field_table-0" class="tablefield table table-hover table-striped" data-striping="1"> <thead class=''> <tr> <th class="row_0 col_0">System (Name)</th> <th class="row_0 col_1">Processor</th> <th class="row_0 col_2">Memory</th> <th class="row_0 col_3">Storage</th> <th class="row_0 col_4">Peak Perf.</th> <th class="row_0 col_5">Sustained Perf. (Spec)</th> <th class="row_0 col_6">Initial top 500 rank</th> </tr> </thead> <tbody> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_1 col_0">1987–1992 Fujitsu VP100</td> <td class="row_1 col_1">Vector</td> <td class="row_1 col_2">64 MByte</td> <td class="row_1 col_3">-</td> <td class="row_1 col_4">0.15 GFlops</td> <td class="row_1 col_5">-</td> <td class="row_1 col_6">-</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="row_2 col_0">1992–1996 Fujitsu VP2200</td> <td class="row_2 col_1">Vector</td> <td class="row_2 col_2">512 MByte</td> <td class="row_2 col_3">27 GByte</td> <td class="row_2 col_4">1.25 GFlops</td> <td class="row_2 col_5">-</td> <td class="row_2 col_6">-</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_3 col_0">1996–2001 Fujitsu VPP</td> <td class="row_3 col_1">Vector/ Scalar</td> <td class="row_3 col_2">14 GByte</td> <td class="row_3 col_3">-</td> <td class="row_3 col_4">28 GFlops</td> <td class="row_3 col_5">-</td> <td class="row_3 col_6">59</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="row_4 col_0">SGI Power Challenge XL</td> <td class="row_4 col_1">20 MIPS R10000</td> <td class="row_4 col_2">2 GByte</td> <td class="row_4 col_3">77 GByte</td> <td class="row_4 col_4">6.4 GFlops</td> <td class="row_4 col_5">-</td> <td class="row_4 col_6">-</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_5 col_0">2001–2005 Compaq/HP Alphaserver (sc)</td> <td class="row_5 col_1">512 DEC Alpha</td> <td class="row_5 col_2">0.5 TByte</td> <td class="row_5 col_3">12TByte</td> <td class="row_5 col_4">1 TFlop</td> <td class="row_5 col_5">2,000</td> <td class="row_5 col_6">31</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="row_6 col_0">2005–2009 SGI Altix 3700 (ac)</td> <td class="row_6 col_1">1920 Intel Itanium</td> <td class="row_6 col_2">5.5 TByte</td> <td class="row_6 col_3">100 TByte</td> <td class="row_6 col_4">14 TFlop</td> <td class="row_6 col_5">21,000</td> <td class="row_6 col_6">26</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_7 col_0">2009–2013 SGI Altix XE (xe)</td> <td class="row_7 col_1">1248 Intel Xeon (Nehalem)</td> <td class="row_7 col_2">2.5 TByte</td> <td class="row_7 col_3">90 TByte</td> <td class="row_7 col_4">14 TFlop</td> <td class="row_7 col_5">12,000</td> <td class="row_7 col_6">-</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="row_8 col_0">2009–2013 Sun/Oracle Constellation (Vayu)</td> <td class="row_8 col_1">11,936 Intel Xeon (Nehalem)</td> <td class="row_8 col_2">37 TByte</td> <td class="row_8 col_3">800 TByte</td> <td class="row_8 col_4">140 TFlop</td> <td class="row_8 col_5">240,000</td> <td class="row_8 col_6">35</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_9 col_0">2013–2017 Fujitsu Primergy (Raijin)</td> <td class="row_9 col_1">57,472 Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge)</td> <td class="row_9 col_2">160 TByte</td> <td class="row_9 col_3">12.5 PByte</td> <td class="row_9 col_4">1.195 PFlop</td> <td class="row_9 col_5">1,600,000</td> <td class="row_9 col_6">24</td> </tr> <tr class="even"> <td class="row_10 col_0">2017-2019 Fujitsu Primergy/Lenovo NeXtScale (Raijin)</td> <td class="row_10 col_1">87,224 Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge, Broadwell)</td> <td class="row_10 col_2">300 TByte</td> <td class="row_10 col_3">50 PByte</td> <td class="row_10 col_4">1.670 PFlop</td> <td class="row_10 col_5"></td> <td class="row_10 col_6">70</td> </tr> <tr class="odd"> <td class="row_11 col_0">2019-present Fujitsu (Gadi)</td> <td class="row_11 col_1">145,152 Intel Xeon (Cascade Lake), NVIDIA V100</td> <td class="row_11 col_2">567 Tbyte</td> <td class="row_11 col_3">60 PByte</td> <td class="row_11 col_4">9.260 PFlop</td> <td class="row_11 col_5"></td> <td class="row_11 col_6">25</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> </article> </div> </div> </main> </div> </div> </div> </section> <footer class="site-footer"> <div class="site-footer--second"> <div class="container"> <div class="row"> <div id="block-needassistance" class="block-content-footer_icons block-block-content--footer_icons block block-block-content 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