The ACSF Power Challenge system at ANU has twenty R10000 processors each with a 2 Mbyte cache. The peak speed of the system is 8 Gflops. There are 2 Gbytes of shared memory and 70 Gbytes of disk array. Although usage of packages is not high at ANU since many researchers are developing their own codes, the packaged software base is gradually growing and now includes the following. Availability of packages and libraries on the VPP is indicated by v and on the SGI-PC by s.
Parentheses indicate packages which are planned to be installed.
The robotic cartridge-tape data silo supplied by StorageTek was in its third year of use in 1996. The ACS4400 data silo initially has approximately 2 Terabyte capacity and is equipped with four 36 track tape drives plus two more on loan from StorageTek. These are expected to be upgraded with two helical scan 'Redwood' drives with speeds in excess of 10 Mbytes per second and with tape capacities such that the total amount of possible storage will be in the 300 Terabyte range. Unfortunately delays in the supply of upgraded file migration software prevented the delivery of the Redwood system in 1996 which regrettably required the Facility to continue to dampen demand for further growth of usage of the system. Two Sun computers act as file servers to the data silo.