New compute nodes (2024)

We’ve just launched some newer, faster cores. Boost your VM now to get a performance boost!

The new cores

We’re excited to announce that we've just launched 15360 new virtual cores in the RCS datacentre at the University of Melbourne.

These cores are spread across forty new hardware hosts/hypervisors. The CPUs are faster, and the network capacity on the new nodes is double that of those previously available.

The new cores are on the AMD EPYC 9474F 48-Core Processor, which has a CPU clock speed of 3600 MHz with a turbo boost of 4100 MHz.

The new nodes also have the Nvidia Mellanox CONNECTX-6 D network card installed Mellanox® ConnectX-6 DX Dual Port 100GbE QSFP56 Network Adapter, connected at 2x50Gbps. This is double the bandwidth capacity compared to the older compute nodes.

The new flavors

These hosts will be able to launch a new generation of the widely-used uom.general flavors, uom.general v3:

Boost your VM now to get a performance boost

There is a 1:1 correspondence between the older and the newer flavor types listed above, so you can resize your VM to the new v3 flavor to gain a performance boost without consuming any additional vCPU allocation.

See our resizing guide for steps.