The National Computational Infrastructure has chosen Dell to supply a $2 million 3,200-core high-performance compute node for the NeCTAR research cloud.
University and research supercomputing is being revolutionised by the march of platforms built using commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones. Queensland University of Technology and the University of Melbourne are the latest to take the plunge.
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