Supercomputers/Systems/Spartan (Melbourne)
Australia · operational · mixed
Spartan (Melbourne)
Also known as Spartan HPC
Operated by University of Melbourne .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
- Rmax
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
- - GF/W
Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | - NVIDIA A100 (100 cards), H100 (64) and L40S (40) GPU partitions | NVIDIA | - | Reported | dashboard.hpc.unimelb.edu.auarxiv.org |
| CPU | - Intel Cascade Lake and Sapphire Rapids partitions, about 14,200 cores | Intel | - | Reported | arxiv.org |
The read
The University of Melbourne's research cluster, combining bare-metal CPU partitions with GPU nodes over RoCE networking. The live status page shows sapphire and cascade CPU partitions and three GPU partitions: gpu-a100 with 100 cards, gpu-h100 with 64 and gpu-l40s with 40, with a GPFS filesystem of about 4 PB. A 2025 arXiv survey of Australian institutions lists Spartan at about 14,200 cores split evenly between Cascade Lake and Sapphire Rapids and 408 GPUs, an earlier snapshot than the live page. The Melbourne documentation sources fetched do not give a node count, commissioning date or integrator, and no FLOPS figure is published.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Spartan, the University of Melbourne's HPC cluster
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| arxiv.org | does not name this system | - |
| dashboard.hpc.unimelb.edu.au | names system only | - |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.