Pawsey manages a number of computing systems that differ in hardware, software and purpose. This page collects information about our current and past systems.

Overview

Pawsey hosts several supercomputing systems and clusters to meet the needs of the diverse pool of users. Because of the continuously evolving landscape of supercomputing and the research world, systems get commissioned and decommissioned on a regular basis. For this reason it is quite common for a centre to have multiple systems running at the same time. Each system has a different purpose and may target a different user base.

Under this page is a set of user guides or system-specific pages, one for each system. In them you will find information about system-specific configurations, supported software and hardware capabilities. The other pages under Supercomputing Documentation provide information that is generally applicable across systems.

Current systems

There are the systems that Pawsey currently operates and that users can request access to.

• Setonix: Setonix is the flagship supercomputer of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, and is based on the HPE Cray EX architecture. It ranked as the 15th largest supercomputer in the world on the Top500 list, and the 4th most energy efficient supercomputer in the world on the Green500 list in November 2022. A significant portion of Setonix's processing capability is due to its AMD MI250X GPUs.
• Garrawarla: The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has installed a new GPU-enabled system called Garrawarla, a Wajarri word meaning Spider, to enable our Murchison Wide Field Array (MWA) researchers to produce scientific outcomes while the Pawsey Supercomputing System is being procured. This MWA compute cluster provides the latest generation of CPUs and GPUs, high memory bandwidth, and increased memory per node to allow MWA researchers to effectively process large datasets.

Guides