back to article Vote for us: We're slinging cash at supercomputers!

The government of the Australian State of Victoria has slung AU$6.65 million in the direction of the Victorian Life Sciences Computation Initiative (VLCSI), deeming the investment a vote-winner in upcoming elections . The VLCSI, one of Australia's leading HPC facilities, is operated in collaboration with IBM and serves …

  1. PleebSmash
    Boffin

    20 Tflop

    "Its latest, the 20 Tflop “Barcoo” machine, started pushing electrons in August of 2013 to feed its 70-node, 1,120-core Sandy Bridge iron."

    So this sentence is describing two separate computers, then?

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