It was a year that started with the Pawsey Centre awarding contracts to procure multi-tier storage facilities and ends with our first ever P’Con event, while acceptance testing continues for our new world-class supercomputer, Setonix. Every way you look at it, it has been a momentous year for Pawsey, as our timeline of achievements and milestones below shows. After several COVID-19 related delays, Setonix and
For the first time in two years, Pawsey is back on the Top500 list with Setonix introduced to the world at the SC Conference in the USA. Setonix has debuted on the list at 314, delivering a peak performance of 2.57 petaflops per second – and that’s just the power of Stage 1. The Top
Superior infrastructure In recent years, Australia’s Tier-1 High Performance Computing (HPC) centres, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre and National Computational Infrastructure, have undergone significant infrastructure upgrades. In its second full year of operations in 2021, NCI’s supercomputer, Gadi, has been on track to do more than 800 million hours of computing for its users. With
33 vendors and research organizations are now collaborating to develop this standard parallel programming model Saint-Louis, Missouri — Nov 12, 2021 — The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has joined the OpenMP ARB, a group of leading hardware vendors, software vendors, and research organizations that are creating the standard for the most popular shared-memory parallel
We are delighted to present our new Annual Report, reflecting on our achievement during 2021-2022 — a year in which the value of Pawsey’s infrastructure, expertise and people has never been clearer. Despite the challenges posed through the COVID-19 pandemic, Pawsey has had a very good year, with our staff continuing to deliver and expand the
Pawsey supercomputers have helped researchers at Curtin University track the original location of a group of meteorites from Mars flung up to 400 million kilometres to Earth. The research has pinpointed the Tooting crater, located in the Tharsis region of Mars, as the likely origin for some of the 166 Martian rocks that have been
A flexible, open-source package management tool that can support multiple versions and configurations of software will be adopted as part of Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s configuration of software and hardware for Setonix phase 1. To enable easy and performant software installations for staff and researchers, Pawsey experts are adopting Spack, a package manager developed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) that has
At Pawsey, we have been working to get Setonix, your new research supercomputer, ready and available for your 2022 allocation. As part of the Setonix commissioning, some electrical works are needed and therefore an extended power outage has been scheduled for the first week in November. Building work undertaken during the past few months will also
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre in Western Australia and CSC – IT Center for Science in Finland have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in a collaborative partnership to achieve strategic global objectives. The two organisations wish to implement a fruitful exchange of information regarding supercomputers, solely for peaceful purposes to promote research and development,
We are pleased to announce a new partnership between 10 Australian research institutions to train instructors in The Carpentries digital research skills. The partnership was announced at the ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit, part of the eResearch Australasia conference. The partnership is one of the largest in the world, and gives research institutions of all sizes