Pawsey News

Funding through the latest NCRIS rounds will support Pawsey’s ongoing operations and include $1.5 million for its quantum computing program. The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has welcomed continued investment from the Australian Government’s Department of Education through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), supporting Pawsey’s role in enabling Australian research and innovation. Pawsey was

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Perth 30 April 2026 The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre today released the second episode of its HPC Hearts & Minds podcast, featuring Curtin University astro-geologist Professor Gretchen Benedix. As Artemis II renews interest in the space travel, attention is turning to the role of supercomputing in enabling space discovery. Professor Benedix’s work on Mars shows how

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The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has opened a new call for PULSE Collaborations (formerly Pawsey Uptake Projects), inviting Australian researchers to partner with Pawsey experts to accelerate the impact of their computational research. The program supports projects that improve performance, scale, and efficiency using Pawsey’s infrastructure. Successful teams will receive up to 0.20 FTE of

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Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has doubled the number of high-memory CPU nodes available on Setonix, increasing capacity from 8 to 16 nodes to better support memory-intensive research workflows. Each high-memory node features dual 2.45 GHz AMD EPYC 7763 “Milan” 64-core CPUs with 1 TB of shared memory. The latest annual Pawsey User Survey highlighted the

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Originally published on the RIC website  Caption header image: Atomic precision at Heavy Ion Accelerators’ ion implantation lab, The Australian National University How Australia’s investment in research and infrastructure is forging global quantum leadership Over the past 20 years, Australia has quietly secured a position at the forefront of the quantum revolution. Not only are

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One of Australia’s leading supercomputing centres and Japan’s advanced technology institute sign agreement focused on integrating quantum computing with supercomputing to accelerate scientific breakthroughs at the annual supercomputing conference in the region Japan, 22 January 2026 — Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, on behalf of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, has signed a Letter of

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A new ARDC Nectar Research Cloud node is now operational at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, boosting Western Australia’s research capabilities and enabling collaboration across institutions nationwide. A new node of the ARDC Nectar Research Cloud is now live at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre for Western Australian and national cross-institutional research. Pawsey joins 9

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Australia’s national supercomputing facilities — the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) in Canberra and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Perth — record unprecedented demand for compute time in their 2026 National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS). NCMAS is a national meritorious grant scheme for access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The two Tier-1 HPC facilities

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Perth, Western Australia, 20 October 2025 – The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has signed a strategic Access Agreement with the University of Sydney, granting its researchers dedicated access to Setonix – the most powerful and energy-efficient supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere. The partnership introduces a dedicated University of Sydney allocation scheme, accelerating time-to-science for projects

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Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is proud to announce that Perth, Western Australia, has been selected to host the International High-Performance Computing Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences (IHPCSS). This is the first time the summer school will take place in the Southern Hemisphere since its inception in 2010. The International HPC Summer School

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