Australian Bunyip wins Gordon Bell awardCanberra 15 November 2000 The Australian National University (ANU) won the Gordon Bell Prize for best price/performance at SC2000 in Texas. The machine, Australian-designed and built, called "Bunyip" is a Beowulf style parallel supercomputer.
A bunyip is a swamp
monster in Aboriginal legends.
The Bunyip machine is a 192-processor Beowulf cluster with a speed of 163 Gflop/s at a cost of less than 92 Australian
cents/Gflop.
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