Pawsey News

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.
3 August 2018

STEM & Supercomputers – Pawsey’s first careers night

Like many other year 10 students in Australia, Charlene* is starting to think about her future. She has just spent the last two weeks in Florida at NASA to experience a career in space. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre held its first careers night on Thursday 26 July and Charlene decided to go along and see

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1 August 2018

Tutorials, Trends, Cutting Edge Tech and Talks at HPC & AI Conference in WA

The Agenda for the 2018 HPC AI Advisory Council conference in Perth has been released. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre will be hosting subject matter experts at the 2nd Annual Perth Conference in Fremantle. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s national supercomputing facilities, is host to the HPC AI Advisory Council – 2018 Perth Conference,

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23 July 2018

Call for 2018-19 Pawsey Internship Projects

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is now opening a call for student internship projects. Over a 10 week period between November 2018 and February 2019, Pawsey will host a group of talented undergraduate students (3rd & 4th year and honours students) to participate in projects related to high-performance computing. Project proposals can be submitted by any

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25 June 2018

HPC’s new Top500 and launch of ISC2018

A big congratulations to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Summit supercomputer in claiming number 1 in the new TOP500 list – the first time in in six years, America has claimed the top spot. Summit is an IBM Supercomputer, which was commissioned in June 2018 at the U.S. Department of Energy’s ORNL. Summit performs a

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13 June 2018

Dedicated time from Supercomputing experts to boost researchers projects

The Pawsey Uptake Project call is now closed, with more than 20 applicants, the review panel has started working to identify the successful candidates. The focus of these uptake projects is to improve the performance of applications that use or potentially could make use of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre compute resources. These initiative aims to

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5 June 2018

Pawsey joins forces with PRACE to promote the use of supercomputing

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the use of supercomputers to the progress of scientific and technological outcomes, and to stimulate the industry sector both in Australia and Europe. PRACE is an international non-profit association, with 25 member countries. Its

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5 June 2018

C3DIS, reaching researchers nationally

Pawsey staff is returning from a busy week of activities with researchers from across the nation. The Centre’s strong presence at this year  Collaborative Conference on Computational and Data Intensive Science (C3DIS) conference included an exhibition booth, workshops and special activities for currents and potential users. The event took place at the Melbourne Convention Centre,

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23 May 2018

Pawsey announces the appointment of a new Director

  Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announces the appointment of WA based Mr Mark Stickells, as the new Director of the Centre effective 16 July 2018.   Making the announcement Mr John Langoulant AO, Chair of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, said: “after undertaking a rigorous selection process, we welcome Mark to this crucial position.” “Mark’s experience with

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15 May 2018

Calling Early Adopters for a powerful new cloud service

One year after launching its cloud service, Nimbus, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre are excited to announce the service’s expansion with Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) nodes. Launched in mid-2017 as a free cloud service for researchers who require flexible access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources, Nimbus consists of AMD Opteron Central Processing Units (CPUs) making up 3000 cores and 288

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10 May 2018

Inspiring the astronomers of the future

A group of 40 people from Perth took the opportunity to explore our solar system’s greatest planet, Jupiter and its cloudy skies, during an event organised by Astronomy Data and Computing Services (ADACS) and hosted by Scitech, Flux Core Innovation Hub and the Perth Observatory. ADACS is a collaboration between the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Curtin

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