Three Australian Machines in Cluster TOP100Adelaide 19 March 2001 According to the the Fairfax Herald, who analysed the new Cluster TOP 100 list, Austriala has three machines in the list. The highest placed Australian supercluster is Adelaide University's Perseus system, ranked at 24. It is a 116-node Beowulf cluster with 232 processors with a at 113 Gflop/s Linapack perfromance. .
According to the newspaper, the university said Perseus is a high-performance Beowulf cluster dedicated to computational chemistry applications, and is the main computer resource of the South Australian Computational Chemistry Facility.
Second Australian machine in the cluster list is the Australian National University's Bunyip (Project, at number 39: a 96-node, 192 processor Linux-based cluster at 52.8 Gflop/s of performance.
Monash University's Parallel Parametric Modelling Engine (PPME) ranked number 64, at speeds of up to 17.89 Gflops.
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