The University of Auckland is gearing up for a sharp increase in traffic over its network thanks to a new supercomputer, housed at UoA, and through the August 2012 launch of a 439 sq m capacity second data centre.

The supercomputer is part of the New Zealand eScience Infrastructure project and will be used for research such as finding a cure for cancer, while the second data centre will complement an existing data centre hosting some 2,100 virtual machines. The new data centre, based at the UoA's Tamaki Innovation campus in Auckland, will have space for 80 racks but the UoA has designed the facility so it can remove an internal wall and extend the building for increased capacity in the future. 

Source: Computerworld