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Brecca

Brecca was finally (?) shutdown on the 9th July, 2009. Much thanks to Monash for hosting and providing close to 500,000 extra cpus hours to researchers!

The Brecca Linux Cluster was purchased and installed in 2003. In June, 2003 it was ranked 124th position on the World’s Top 500 Super Computer list.

Brecca is located at Monash University, a VPAC Member University. The Cluster is accessible to Monash University Researchers and VPAC approved projects. Access to the cluster is accessible via grid protocols.

Please see: http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/services/mcg/brecca.html

Specifications

  • 90 node, 180 CPU Linux Cluster based on Intel Pentium 4 Xeon 2.8 GHz cpus.
  • Interconnect via Myrinet.
  • Between 1 and 2 Gigs of RAM per node (total of 160 Gigabytes of RAM).
  • Open source Torque PBS Job Manager
  • Connected to Grid Australia
  • Cores: 180
  • Nodes: 90

Featured Media

Selected case studies. See all 5 case studies for Supercomputers.

  • Aprenavir binding site showing water interactions
    Modelling HIV Protease Mutations

    High performance computing was used to investigate the effects of resistance mutations within a crucial enzyme of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) towards a range of antiviral drugs.

  • HIV reverse transcriptase
    Modelling HIV Reverse Transcriptase

    High performance computing was used to investigate the effects of resistance mutations within a crucial enzyme of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) towards the antiviral drug Nevirapine.

  • Nanotube
    Nanoscience and High Performance Computing

    High Performance Computing is used in nanoscience to investigate the relationship between the size, shape and structure of nanoscale materials (nanomorphology) and the thermal and chemical environment