In the beginning. . .

Redqueen

• Skunkworks(?)
• Prototype platform based on pooled funding/shared resources.

CSF

• 90k from Uni, first jobs Dec 2010, 288 cores;
• now 3 million, 8000 cores, still growing fast;
• approx 40 research groups.

CPU-bound, e.g., simulations/modelling

• commonly multi-host MPI-based work.
• CSF ideal for this.

. . .dominated by EPS, but then. . .