<div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div>Hi all,<br><br></div>Recently the University of Tasmania (UTAS) <a href="http://www.tpac.org.au/university-invests-5-million-to-ensure-computer-power-matches-research-demands/">invested</a> in a new High Performance Computing facility at the Sandy Bay campus.  The facility is designed to provide around 250kw to a range of computing platforms used by the University and it's partners operating in the eResearch space and features the usual raised floor, fire suppression, diesel generator backup etc.<br><br>In particular the facility now contains a new HPC cluster from<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"open sans",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)">Huawei featuring</span><span style="color:rgb(58,58,58);font-family:"open sans",arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(249,249,249)"> ~7,000-cores, 32TB memory, 100gb infiniband which is intended to function as a mix job cluster. <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> The cluster has been named Kunanyi after the</span> indigenous name for <span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"></span></span>Mount Wellington (the big hill just up the river).  It will be backed by various high capacity storage platforms including GPFS, DMF and CephFS.<br><br>The facility is not yet operational and as such we have an opportunity to extend an invite to interested parties who might like to have a look.  <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">We're offering ten participants a tour of the new facility starting 5:30pm tonight for around 40 mins or so.   <br><br>The first ten people to add their names to the <a href="https://linux.conf.au/wiki/conference/birds_of_a_feather_sessions/tour-new-utas-hpc-facility/">wiki</a> ought consider themselves accepted and should meet everyone else </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">outside the Engineering building on <a href="https://www.google.com.au/maps/dir/Wrest+Point,+Sandy+Bay+Road,+Sandy+Bay,+Tasmania/-42.9020946,147.327173/@-42.9028605,147.3279693,16z/data=%213m1%214b1%214m9%214m8%211m5%211m1%211s0xaa6ddf430969e7a3:0x5d6ff081d3a3410%212m2%211d147.337535%212d-42.902507%211m0%213e2">Grosvenor Crescent</a> on the University campus at 17:30 tonight (Thursday).  It's about 10 mins walk from here.<br></span></div><br>PS: Sincere apologies for the late announcement, it's taken a little time to secure the appropriate approvals.  <br><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none"></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);display:inline;float:none">--<span class="gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div class="gmail_signature" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:small">Kind regards, Julius</span><span style="font-size:small"><br></span></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Training - Helpdesk - Collaboration</font></div><div><font size="2">Tasmanian Partnership For Advanced Computing (TPAC), UTAS.</font></div><div><font size="2"><br></font></div><div><font size="2">Linux Sysadmin - Cloud Devops </font></div><div><font size="2">eResearch Infrastructure Services, Information Technology Services, UTAS</font></div></div></div></div></div>