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Computerworld Australia: Swinburne Linux Supercomputer Tastes Apple RAID

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 21, 2003

“Swinburne University of Technology’s Centre for Astrophysics
and Supercomputing has implemented a fibre channel RAID storage
system for its 130-node cluster.

“The cluster–a mixture of 100 Dell dual Xeon servers at
Swinburne in Victoria and 30 Dell Xeon servers at Parkes in NSW–is
used for processing the centre’s astrophysical data.

“The centre’s director, Professor Matthew Bailes, said the
supercomputer had a low level of storage compared with its
processing power…”


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