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IVEC's Magnus crashes Top 50

Pawsey pops the bubbles

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is all smiles after the SC14 announcement that its upgraded Magnus iron has landed in the world's top fifty supercomputers.

The 35,712-core Haswell-based Cray XC40 cracked 1,097 teraflops on the Linpack benchmark, which put it at position 41 on the list.

At the end of September, the machine's managers allocated its first 90 million CPU-hours.

Magnus is an eight cabinet hunk of iron, each with 48 four-node blades running Cray's Aries interconnect and connected to Sonexion 1600 storage appliances. Its position in the top 50 makes the super the most powerful in the southern hemisphere.

China's Tianhe-2 still holds the top spot, followed by America's Titan at Oak Ridge, the DoE's Sequioa, the K computer in Japan's RIKEN Institute, and Argonne National Laboratory's Mira rounding out the top five.

Number ten on the list provides the world with an enigma Vulture South is sure will inspire our commentards: it's a Cray run by the US government, but its agency and location aren't disclosed. ®

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