Aquila

Aquila is eResearch SA's second newest supercomputer and was purchased with funding from a number of research groups and a contribution of AU$1.035 million from the State Government of South Australia.

Aquila is particularly useful for problems with extremely large data sets or for tasks that require a large memory footprint.

Aquila is an SGI Altix 3000, a large shared memory machine that presents itself as a single image computer with 160 processors and 160 GB of RAM which can be shared in various ways, for example, as 160 processors each accessing 1 GB of RAM, or as 1 processor accessing 160 GB of RAM

Aquila has a peak theoretical performance of 830 GFlops. NUMA architecture is used for system communication.

For more information, please see the Aquila User Guide.