Year: 2017

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre are a Tier-1 facility in Australia which enables amazing, ground-breaking science across the nation. Due to this high profile, we have collected Pawsey coverage across a range of national and international media publications.
15 May 2017

The end of Perth Big Data Week 2017!

Big Data Week 2017 was launched by Professor Peter Klinken, Chief Scientist of Western Australia on Monday 8 May at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Kensington. Attendees of the launch included special Guest of Honour, the Honourable David Kelly MLA, Minister for Water; Fisheries; Forestry; Innovation and ICT; and Science. Perth Big Data Week is

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10 May 2017

Data Powering Entrepreneurship

To celebrate Perth Big Data Week 2017, CORE Innovation Hub, FLUX and Spacecubed hosted a joint event discussing what Big Data looks like from an entrepreneur’s perspective. Guest speakers included innovators at the cutting edge of big data across a range of sectors: Jasmine Ward (moderator) – Co founder, Cribber and Ventures Analyst, Navitas Ventures

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10 May 2017

It is our time to shine and to really go forward with big data

Big Data Week 2017 was launched on Monday 8 May by Professor Peter Klinken, the Chief Scientist of Western Australia at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. The Centre has coordinated week-long Big Data events since 2013, with this years’ running from 8 – 12 May. “Big data is our state’s opportunity”, Professor Klinken said during his

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26 April 2017

Big Data Week is back!

Pawsey is pleased to present Big Data Week once again, a week-long celebration of big data that involves various events around Perth. “Big data” is a buzz phrase that has been on the tip of everyone’s tongues lately. But what is big data and why do we need it? Big data surrounds us. We interact

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11 April 2017

Perth: NASA’s international space apps challenge returns

Space Apps Perth returns for 2017! Once again, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is a proud sponsor of Perth Space Apps, which is returning to Perth for the second year running. The theme for the 2017 International Space Apps Challenge is “Earth.” Come along to exchange ideas, brainstorm and solve planet Earth’s problems. This year, scientists, coders,

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10 April 2017

Athena: Call for Early Adopters

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is currently in the process of installing the Advanced Technology Cluster, known now as “Athena”, consisting of two emerging technology architectures. These components include an Intel Xeon Phi cluster with a 100 GBps OmniPath interconnect, and a NVIDIA Pascal GPU cluster with a 100 Gbps EDR Infinband interconnect. The two modest size

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7 April 2017

Researchers welcomed Pawsey experts

After the success of this year’s Roadshow in Hobart and last year’s Roadshow in Melbourne, Pawsey experts recently hit the road again to reach out to researchers in Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide! From March 20th to 24th 2017, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre staff toured Australia with the Pawsey Roadshow to assist researchers in taking their

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21 March 2017

SGI wins over “Athena.”

Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced that SGI (now a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company) has been awarded the tender of the Advanced Technology Cluster (ATC) system, which has now been named “Athena.” Athena is a state-of-the-art next generation high-performance computing system. It will provide Pawsey researchers with access to cutting edge technologies, and facilitate the

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13 March 2017

Breakthrough in wheat genome research

Pawsey bioinformatics researchers from UWA have discovered 21, 000 new genes in 16 varieties of common wheat. Wheat is one of the most vital food crops in the world, yet is assembled of extremely complex genomes. The newly uncovered wheat gene variations will contribute to the improvement of bread, and knowledge of disease resistance wheat

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7 March 2017

National Roadshow update

Astronomy training session extended to a full day event! Throughout 2017 the Astronomy Australia Limited (AAL) initiative for Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) will deliver data services and expert training to improve data management and computing practises, helping the community to maximise the use of astronomy-focused infrastructure. The next ADACS event will be a one-day face-to-face and interactive workshop

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