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A WA supercomputer with a very West Australian name has passed a major “stress test” with flying colours.

Setonix phase one has almost 65,000 cores, and when the supercomputer is complete it will boast more than 200,000 cores across 1608 nodes. This means we will be able to unearth more from the ASKAP data,” Raja said. Radio astronomy is going to be one of the big benefactors of the Pawsey centre upgrade – by its very nature it takes a huge amount of computing and memory – but a range of scientific disciplines from molecular dynamics to particle physics also have use for Setonix. The test was the latest step in a $70 million upgrade to the Pawsey centre, with the supercomputer being installed in two stages. Raja said that particular supernova remnant was chosen to test the supercomputer because of its complexity – it was not especially easy to process and the diffuse cloud of dust and gas was not exactly alone in its patch of sky. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, already a behemoth of scientific data processing, just put the first stage of its new supercomputer through a demanding “stress test” – and it gave a stellar performance.

We didn't bring in any dedicated road racing bikes; instead, we concentrated on all-rounders with more generous frame clearances. With a simple swap of tires, ...

There’s a wide range of 700×35 mm-wide multi-surface tires out on the market that would work on lots of modern road bikes these days. Both of those bikes were already smooth-riding, and already arrived with relatively voluminous road tires (30 mm printed width on the Cannondale; 32 mm for the Litespeed). But those stock slicks still didn’t inspire much confidence when surfaces got dusty and slippery, and installing the 35s did wonders. On all of those bikes, the tires’ supple casings, low weight, and fast-rolling tread design also kept things fast on tarmac, too. Trek and Specialized (and plenty of others) may well have been hedging their bets on what the buying public was prepared to accept off-the-shelf, but it was also an indication of what sort of terrain a lot of people were riding. But despite the modest air volume compared to current preferences, all four of the bikes proved to be a blast on average gravel and dirt (as long as there weren’t too many rocks or roots). Granted, none of us are very heavy, so some of these comments may not apply if you’re more gravitationally gifted. With a simple swap of tires, our thinking here was that these bikes could — even if just theoretically — potentially perform well on a wide range of surfaces.