The new Australian supercomputer, Gadi, has ranked number 25 on the top 500 supercomputers in the world.

https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/australias-gadi-supercomputer-recognized-on-top500-list/

The Bureau of Meteorology, CSIRO, Geoscience Australia and The Australian National University are all major collaborators of NCI and are set to utilise Gadi to its fullest potential in the coming years.

The Bureau of Meteorology is leveraging the new computational power of Gadi to produce sub-kilometre (down to distances of 200 metres) coupled bushfire-atmospheric models. Known as ACCESS-Fire, this model represents the complex interactions between the heat of the fire, the release of moisture, and atmospheric circulations. Such models can predict the path of a fire as well as the spread of smoke in real time.

remember back in the days when Good Old Aussie CSIRAC was number 1

SCIENCE said:

remember back in the days when Good Old Aussie CSIRAC was number 1

This chart is interesting. It includes CSIRAC and gadi on the same graph. The first supercomputer I used was a Cray. I got intimately familiar with Cherax, from 1990-1992. I loved the fortran compiler on that machine. There was one really bad year when Australia dropped totally out of the top 500, and New Zealand had two in the top 100, both owned by the NZ animation company Weta.

mollwollfumble said:

SCIENCE said:

remember back in the days when Good Old Aussie CSIRAC was number 1

This chart is interesting. It includes CSIRAC and gadi on the same graph. The first supercomputer I used was a Cray. I got intimately familiar with Cherax, from 1990-1992. I loved the fortran compiler on that machine. There was one really bad year when Australia dropped totally out of the top 500, and New Zealand had two in the top 100, both owned by the NZ animation company Weta.

Yeah, but they’re only ‘available’ because there’s no-one left who needs to use them.