Computer Cloud Launched for Life Sciences Research on Australian Grid
Life sciences researchers in Australia have been granted access to the high performance computers that comprise Australia’s grid network via the launch of its Computer Cloud initiative. According to...
View ArticleSteam Engine Rolls into HPC Cloud Market
Australian IT systems integrator Frontline Systems announced Steam Engine, which is a cloud-based infrastructure provider with an eye on the HPC market. According to the company’s release, Steam Engine...
View ArticleThe Week in Review
Here is a collection of highlights from this week’s news stream as reported by HPCwire. UC Santa Barbara-Led Team Developing Next-Generation Ethernet Sony Equips PCs with World Community Grid Software...
View ArticleMicrosoft Grants Australian Researchers Azure Gift
Microsoft is again doling out gifts of free time on its Azure cloud platform, this time to Australian researchers at a number of universities and institutions. The 4 million-hour donation, which is...
View ArticleMASSIVE Supercomputing Project Boosts Science Down Under
Advanced imaging facilities at the the Australian Synchrotron and Monash University will leverage the power of GPUs to provide scientists with near real-time processing and high-resolution output. IBM...
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SKA Finds New Beat with SETI Model
It’s one thing to claim you have the ideal location for the world’s largest radio telescope, but it’s another matter entirely to claim you have the raw crunch-power needed to handle the massive data...
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Australia’s Super Demand
Infinite demand for supercomputing resources has become the norm with a bevy of increasingly powerful applications limited only by the number of available cores. However, according to some climate...
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Australia Goes on Spending Spree in Supercomputing Market
While governments in much of the rest of the world are wringing their hands over stagnant or shrinking R&D budgets, Australia is buying up HPC machinery like there is no tomorrow. Just this week,...
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The Week in HPC Research
The top research stories of the week have been hand-selected from leading scientific centers, prominent journals and relevant conference proceedings. Here’s another diverse set of items, including an...
View ArticleFirst HPC Service at University of Sydney Tackles Big Science Problems
A Dell cluster called Artemis is on track to solve problems important to Australia and the world. Commissioned by the University of Sydney, the new cluster is the university’s first high-performance...
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Australia Pumps Another $70 Million Into Tier-1 Supercomputing
The Australian government has committed $70 million in funding for a next-generation number cruncher at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, located in Perth, Western Australia. The investment will...
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PRACEdays18 Keynote Allan Williams (Australia/NCI): We’re Open for Business...
The University of Ljubljana in Slovenia hosted the third annual EHPCSW18 and fifth annual PRACEdays18 events which opened with a plenary session on May 29, 2018. The conference was chaired by PRACE...
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Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Spins Up ‘Garrawarla’ for Astronomical Insight
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is welcoming a new GPU cluster, Garrawarla, a key resource for the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope project in Australia, a precursor to the Square Kilometre...
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Using Micro-Combs, Researchers Demonstrate World’s Fastest Optical...
Neuromorphic computing, which uses chips that mimic the behavior of the human brain using virtual “neurons,” is growing in popularity thanks to high-profile efforts from Intel and others. Now, a team...
View ArticleAustralian Supercomputer Research Dives Down Under Melting Ice Shelves
Virtually all of the expected sea level rise from climate change will result from the melting of massive ice sheets and glaciers that rest comfortably above sea level – however, the forces that guide...
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Supercomputer Research Uncovers Superhighways on a Supercontinent
Supercomputing is used to understand the shapes of otherwise-inscrutable processes, from the atomic-level movements of cells to thousand-year trends in the global climate. But supercomputing is also...
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Using HPC Cloud, Researchers Investigate the COVID-19 Lab Leak Hypothesis
At the end of 2019, strange pneumonia cases started cropping up in Wuhan, China. As Wuhan (then China, then the world) scrambled to contain what would, of course, go on to become the worst pandemic in...
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Australian Government Unveils New Defense, Weather Supercomputers
The Australian government has been busy on the supercomputing front. In just the last two weeks, the Australian Department of Defence and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology have both revealed major...
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Pawsey Supercomputing Targets Detailed Regional Climate Projections
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia is putting its shiny new Setonix supercomputer (ranked fourth on the most recent Top500 list) to work on an important climate change research project. The...
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SCA23: Pawsey’s Mark Stickells on Sustainable Australian Supercomputing
“While the need for supercomputing is great, we have, in my view, reached a tipping point,” said Mark Stickells, executive director of Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, as he opened his keynote...
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