In Pictures: The 10 most powerful supercomputers on Earth
2015’s first edition of the top 500 list contains a new entrant but an old champion.
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Pawsey Centre launches hunt for new supercomputer
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has officially launched a tender process seeking a replacement for its Magnus and Galaxy system.
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SKA team completes design for world’s most powerful supercomputer
Australia’s CSIRO, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) are part of an international consortium that has completed a five-year effort to design supercomputing infrastructure that will help process the masses of data generated by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project.
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Construction of new Defence HPC centre to kick-off mid-year
Defence is in the final stages of procuring a head contractor to lead the construction of a new high performance computing centre in South Australia.
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GPU hackathon returns to WA
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is hosting a five-day ‘GPU hackathon’ to help computer scientists port applications to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).
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New HPC facility launched at NZ’s NIWA
Research, science and innovation minister Dr Megan Woods has officially opened New Zealand’s High Performance Computing Facility at NIWA’s campus in Wellington, 17 months after the government announced plans to invest in the facility.
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10 cool network and computing research projects
If you think the latest enterprise and consumer network and computer technologies rolling into your data center and being snuck into your offices by end users are advanced, wait until you see what's cooking in the labs at universities and tech companies. Much of well-funded research is aimed at security, simplifying use of current technology and figuring out how to more easily plow through mounds of big data. Here's at peek at 10 projects.