The University of Adelaide

Client Success Summary

The University of Adelaide, one of Australia’s leading research universities, wanted to better support researchers from a wide range of disciplines. Previously, researchers had to compete for limited external HPC facilities, which often left groups without enough compute resources or delays in securing access. With Phoenix, a supercomputer based on a Lenovo NeXtScale System M5 cluster with over 3,800 Intel® Xeon® processor cores, the university can now offer researchers a powerful, state-of-the-art research tool, helping to enhance its status as a world-class research center.

Solution components

Hardware

• Lenovo NeXtScale System M5, NeXtScale n1200 Enclosures, NeXtScale nx360 M5 compute nodes with Intel® Xeon® processors
• Mellanox SB7790 EDR IB Switches
• NVIDIA Tesla K80 GPU Accelerators

Software

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux

"Our supercomputer, called “Phoenix”, enables University of Adelaide researchers to access a facility exponentially larger than the limited portions of shared facilities they previously relied on."

Mark Gregory
CIO, University of Adelaide