As part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is boosting high-speed storage for researchers using CSIRO’s Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP)and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescopes by providing three times as much storage and three times as much performance. Supercomputing is often associated with raw processing power, the ability
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is pleased to officially announce the arrival of Topaz, a new commodity Linux cluster, provided by Xenon, which will be complementary to Zeus. Topaz is currently undergoing final configuration and testing with the assistance of invited Pawsey researchers, and we anticipate Topaz to be in full production in January 2020. Topaz
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre spent a week in Brisbane for eResearch Australasia 2019, which focused on the theme eResearch Diversity. Organised by the Australasian eResearch Organisation, the conference is an opportunity for delegates to engage, connect and share their ideas and exemplars concerning new information centric research capabilities, and how information and communication technologies help researchers to
Three generations of the Pawsey family joined the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in commemorating the birth of radio astronomy on its 74th anniversary. On the 3rd of October 1945, Joseph Pawsey conducted the first successful radio astronomy experiment at the radar station on the Collaroy Plateau, Sydney. Pawsey was investigating how wartime radar had sometimes been
This year, the HPC-AI Advisory Council successfully held its third annual Perth conference in partnership with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. The two-day conference was a collaborative symposium, bringing together over 120 attendees, international industry luminaries and experts from a wide variety of scientific disciplines. The conference was an enlightening experience of lively debate, learning and insight
On a cold, August morning, six Pawsey staff set off to Geraldton, a regional town over 400 kilometres away from Perth. With stars on their minds, the team were destined for the Murchison Radio Observatory (MRO) – a radio-silent zone a further 350 kilometres from Geraldton. The MRO currently hosts two world-leading radio astronomy telescopes,
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre attended Perth ResBaz 2019, hosting three training sessions at this ‘un-conference’ festival of learning, hosted by Curtin University. This year, Pawsey had four representatives attend. Anne Backhaus, Education and Training Manager, Luke Edwards, Data Specialist, and Supercomputing Applications Specialists Brian Skjerven and Marco De La Pierre, all delivered successful training sessions on
Luke Edwards, Pawsey Data Specialist, presented an introductory information session on Pawsey at this years’ Achieve Your Research Outcomes (AYRO) series, hosted by the University of Western Australia (UWA). Luke presented Pawsey in a 45-minute information session to an audience of potential users. The presentation introduced what the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is and what services
A cool night in August kicked off the GovHack Connections event at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. As a sponsor of GovHack 2019, Pawsey hosted the Connections event to celebrate their milestone ten years of operation and inform hackers of the challenges they will face over the hackathon weekend. What is a GovHack? A GovHack is
Pawsey welcomed the Australian Ambassador for Cyber Affairs, Dr Tobias Feakin. As part of his national roadshow on ‘Australia’s International Cyber Engagement Strategy’, Dr Feakin meet with Pawsey’s Executive Director, Mark Stickells along with members of Pawsey’s leadership team, and representatives from CSIRO, AustCyber and WA’s Cyber Innovation Hub, to discuss opportunities and risk in