OzSTAR Supercomputing

The Swinburne Supercomputer since 2018, OzSTAR underpins the computational efforts of the Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

Technical Specifications

Installed in 2018, OzSTAR underpins the computational efforts of the Centre of Excellence in Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). Continuing our tradition of operating as a national facility for the astronomy community through the GPU Supercomputer for Theoretical Astrophysics Research (gSTAR) program. OzSTAR is primarily available as a high-performance computing facility to drive research forward across all academic disciplines at Swinburne. OzSTAR continues the tradition of leadership in academic supercomputing at Swinburne, helping students and staff to achieve their research goals.

Standard Compute Nodes
Dell R740 14G Server
2 x Intel Gold 6140 18-core processors
2 x NVIDIA P100 12GB PCIe GPUs
192 GB DDR4 RAM
400 GB local SSD
High Memory Nodes
Dell R740 14G Server
2 x Intel Gold 6140 18-core processors
2 x NVIDIA P100 12GB PCIe GPUs
384 GB RAM or 768 GB RAM
2 TB NVMe flash SSD
Fabric Interconnect
100 Gigabit per second
High performance Omni-Path architecture
Lustre ZFS Target File System
13 Petabytes
Improved data integrity with transaction-based, copy-on-write operations, snapshots, and persistent data and metadata checksums on every write.
Slurm Workload Manager
Highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling
Open source
Fault tolerant