Facilities

Pailthorpe, Willing and Bordes built the first Australian Access Grid (AG) node in Sydney VisLab (at the Australian Technology Park and the University of Sydney Physics) in 2001.

VisLab is the Access Grid development site for the Queensland Parallel Supercomputing Foundation (QPSF) and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). The VisLab AG comprises:

• 3 JVC D-ILA projectors (1280 x 1024 pixels): total projected area: 3840 x 1024 pixels
• internet ports for laptops
• adjustable lighting
• high-speed connection

» Read more on the AG development project in VisLab

» High Resolution Displays

• 2 x 3 rear projection tiled display

• IBM 200dpi LCD panel

» Visualisation hardware

» Video Edit Suite

VisLab provide access to a digital video suite for the creation and editing of videos.

• Apple G5 edit suite with 80 GB space (to be extended to 0.5 TB)
• FinalCut Pro software

» General hardware

Several general access Linux workstations are available for research

• Apple G5 X-serve Raid Array (1TByte)

» High Performance Computing

Trough QPSF:

• gust: SGI Altix 3700 CPUs 16 x Intel Itanium 2 (1500Mhz) and 30 GByte memory
• storm: SGI Altix 3700 CPUs 16 x Intel Itanium 2 (1500Mhz) and 120 GByte memory
• cyclone: SGI Altix 3700 Bx2 CPUs 64 x Intel Itanium 2 (1500Mhz) and 120 GByte memory