Aquila - Overview

Aquila was purchased by SAPAC with funding from a number of research groups and a contribution of AU$1.035 million from the State Government of South Australia.

Aquila is used for a variety of applications in the computational sciences and is particularly useful for problems with extremely large data sets or that require a large memory footprint.

Aquila is an SGI Altix 3000, a large shared memory machine that presents itself as a single image computer with 160 processors and 160 GB of RAM which can be shared in various ways - for example, as 160 processors each accessing 1 GB of RAM, or as 1 processor accessing 160 GB of RAM

Aquila has a peak theoretical performance of 830 GFlops.

Aquila is located at the University of Adelaide and managed by SAPAC.

Aquila User's Guide