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NZ Super-computer Upgrade
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
The University of Canterbury has signed a contract with IBM that increases New Zealand's BlueFern High Performance Computing (HPC) capacity by 10 times.
In February the New Zealand government announced it was making a $27.4 million investment in National eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) over the next four years with $21 million in co-investment coming from a consortium including four key partners – UC, the University of Auckland, NIWA and AgResearch.
Director of University of Canterbury’s BlueFern HPC Unit Professor Tim David said there were two parts to the BlueFern computer architecture upgrade. An upgrade to a new Power7 system, which increases by 10 times the capacity of the previous model, and the new Blue Gene P will go live by the end of September.
“We have been providing a national service for some time but now we are able to provide that service in a formal government-matched way. It is great for New Zealand in terms of the economic benefits the research will bring,” said Professor David.
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