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
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
Every summer, the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre opens its doors to a select group of undergraduate and postgraduate students, giving them the rare chance to work at the cutting edge of science and technology. These interns are not just learning in the classroom — they’re learning through doing, tackling real research problems and running experiments
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
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
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
In a global first, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is offering a fully integrated, streamlined platform that adds quantum computing to the capacity of Australia’s most advanced research supercomputer. This free access, provided through the peer-reviewed National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) and supported by the Australian Government via National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) funding,
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has been named a Merit Recipient in the Technology Platform category at the 2025 National iAwards for its groundbreaking QBit Bridge project, advancing Australia’s position in quantum-classical computing integration. The QBit Bridge is a major step forward in hybrid workflow technology, combining GPU, CPU and quantum processing. Using Quantum Brilliance’s Virtual
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre today launches its interactive annual review, inviting readers to explore 25 years of computational innovation that has helped transform Australia’s scientific landscape. The digital experience charts Pawsey’s journey from its humble beginnings—when the Centre’s first computer supported just 10 researchers—to today’s national-scale infrastructure serving more than 4,000 scientists. Now home
Australian researchers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Curtin University, and the SKA Observatory have developed BLINK (Breakthrough Low-latency Imaging with Next-generation Kernels), a powerful software pipeline designed to accelerate the search for enigmatic signals from space called fast radio bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope on Wajarri Yamaji Country in