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.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has officially launched a tender process seeking a replacement for its Magnus and Galaxy system.
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.
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.
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is hosting a five-day ‘GPU hackathon’ to help computer scientists port applications to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs).
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.
Earth observation satellites generate a lot of data, and the volume is growing at an exponential rate.
The University of Sydney has revealed details of a $2.3 million upgrade to its Artemis high-performance computing (HPC) cluster that it says will significantly boost artificial intelligence research.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is expanding its Nimbus service, offering researchers access to GPU nodes.
What is the smallest computational task a quantum computer might be able to complete, that the most powerful supercomputers available today would find prohibitively hard?
Addressing the enormous power demands of exascale computing remains the biggest challenge in the race to push the boundaries of supercomputing, according to Joao Almeida, CTO at Lenovo ANZ’s Data Centre Group.
The government will spend $70 million on replacing the ANU-based Raijin supercomputer run by National Computational Infrastructure (NCI).
Dell EMC will build a supercomputer to power Swinburne University of Technology research into astrophysics and gravitational waves.
The CSIRO’s new supercomputer — dubbed ‘Bracewell’ after astronomer and engineer Ronald N. Bracewell — has gone live.
The CSIRO has invited tenders for a replacement of its BRAGG supercomputer cluster, with the organisation hoping to have a new petaflop-capable system up and running in the first half of next year.
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) will spend $14 million boosting its supercomputer capability and throughput thanks to a new injection of funding.