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Stage 1 of Pawsey’s new $48 million HPE Cray EX supercomputer, known
as Setonix now stands next to its supercomputer cousins, Magnus and
Galaxy. When fully operational, Setonix will be 30 times more
powerful than the existing two systems combined, increasing the
computing power of the centre by 45 per cent. When Stage 2 is
installed in mid-2022, Setonix will be able to operate at 50 petaFLOPS
of power, equivalent to three times the combined power of Australia’s
current Tier 1 public research supercomputing facilities. Wajarri
Yamatji artist Margaret Whitehurst produced the artwork for Setonix’s
casing, inspired by the stars that shine over Wajarri country in
Western Australia’s Mid-West. “Margaret’s design is a beautiful
representation of a tradition of Aboriginal astronomy that dates back
thousands of years,” Pawsey Centre Executive Director Mark Stickells
says. “Margaret and the Wajarri people are the traditional owners of
CSIRO’s Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory in Western Australia
where one part of the world’s largest radio astronomy observatory, the
Square Kilometre Array, will be built. Setonix will process vast
amounts of radio telescope data from SKA-related projects, and many
other projects of national and international significance that we are
proud to support.”
(Image and text credit:
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)
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