Pawsey in the media

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.
16 February 2023

AN AUSTRALIAN-MADE QUANTUM CHIP IN EVERY HOME? (PODCAST)

This week Quantum Brilliance announced a $26 million funding round, a significant boost to its lofty ambitions. Brent Balinski spoke to co-founder Dr Andrew Horsley about bringing Australian-made room-temperature quantum accelerators to the masses. Among people who care about such things, Intel’s examination of Australia as a possible home for a fabrication site in the

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14 February 2023

HPCwire Unveils Editors’ Superlative Awards

Each November, HPCwire’s readers and editors recognize dozens of individuals and organizations across more than 20 very serious award categories, celebrating technology innovations and HPC-driven research that will transform both the industry and the world. But throughout the year, while covering these developments, there are lots of nooks and crannies in the HPC community that go

Source: HPCwire

9 February 2023

SMP 2023 scholarships: open now

For Science Meets Parliament 2023, nine scholarship recipients will be able to access a full program of career-defining professional development training at no cost. Science Meets Parliament is Australia’s most significant event for deep engagement between the science and technology community and policymakers. Science & Technology Australia is offering the scholarships thanks to our generous sponsors: Exciton

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7 February 2023

Right place, right time for data centres

GEOGRAPHY is playing a major part in a growth industry that would otherwise likely bypass a relatively small and isolated economy like Western Australia’s. It is, perhaps, a convergence of needs, technological change, risk aversion, some decades-old policy decisions and the unusual demands of local industry that have made the state particularly attractive to those

Source: Business News

30 January 2023

Inspiring the future WA leaders of STEM

Year 12 students have toured world-class STEM facilities in Western Australia and networked with industry and education experts to gain a better understanding of the exciting STEM opportunities awaiting them right here in this State. It’s all part of the National Youth Science Forum’s (NYSF) flagship Year 12 program, which seeks to connect the State’s

Source: WA Government

18 January 2023

Grant quantum leap for women in STEM

The University of Western Australia will help enhance female participation in modern quantum science through Quantum Girls, a Women in STEM and Entrepreneurship project. The Australian Government’s Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources announced funding of $879,000 to support the project. The project is designed to address a skills shortage and gender imbalance in

Source: Mirage News

7 December 2022

How NVIDIA helped 3D researchers bring naval history to life

Museumgoers will be able to explore two sunken WWII ships as if they were scuba divers on the ocean floor, thanks to work at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Exhibits in development, for display in Australia and potentially further afield, will use exquisitely detailed 3D models the researchers are creating to tell the story of

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2 December 2022

Pawsey gets ready for user workloads on Setonix

Scientists prepare for new architecture. The Pawsey Centre’s Setonix supercomputer is getting ready to onboard its first user communities, to be ready for full operations by February 2023. In an interview with iTnews, Pawsey’s executive director Mark Stickells said since Phase 1 of the project went live in June, the centre has finished removing the previous flagship,

Source: IT News

24 November 2022

White Spark Pictures announces ‘Beyond the Milky Way’ documentary series

White Spark Pictures’ Beyond the Milky Way, an immersive film about the construction of one of the world’s largest radio telescopes, is set to be expanded into a new decade-long documentary series. The World’s Largest Telescopes: Beyond the Milky Way will begin with two hour-long installments that examine the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project in Western Australia’s

Source: if.com.au

23 November 2022

Hot ice cream, sleepless cats and affordable quantum computers

Some things are not impossible, but are, still, implausible – in the absence of creativity, consistency of efforts and bold thinking. Enterprise-easy quantum computing is one such oxymoron. Let’s find out why voodoo-factors and plateaus matter here Exactly a decade back, in 2012, the Nobel Prize in Physics went in the lap of Serge Haroche

Source: Data Quest

22 November 2022

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Setonix ranks fourth on Green500 list

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s Setonix has been recognized as the world’s fourth greenest supercomputer on the Green500 list. Named after the native Quokka (Setonix brachyurus), known for being the ‘world’s happiest animal,’ the Setonix HPC has similarly made waves by being the most powerful supercomputer in the southern hemisphere, as well as one of the

Source: Data Center Dynamics

18 November 2022

See a Sea Change: 3D Researchers Bring Naval History to Life

Museumgoers will be able to explore two sunken WWII ships as if they were scuba divers on the ocean floor, thanks to work at Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Exhibits in development, for display in Australia and potentially further afield, will use exquisitely detailed 3D models the researchers are creating to tell the story of

Source: NVIDIA

17 November 2022

AMD Drives Leadership Performance and Energy Efficiency in Supercomputing

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the Supercomputing Conference 2022 (SC22), AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) showcased its continued momentum and dominating presence within the high performance computing (HPC) industry. AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ accelerators continue to be the processors of choice for the most demanding HPC workloads powering the most complex simulations

Source: Globe News Wire

16 November 2022

Pawsey gets funding commitment from WA gov

The Western Australian government will spend $22.4 million over five years supporting the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, in return for access to its facilities. Those facilities include the country’s and southern hemisphere’s fastest HPC machine, Setonix, also recognised as one of the least-polluting supercomputers in the Green500 list. The 500-node, 65,000 core Setonix went live in July.

Source: IT News

16 November 2022

Australian supercomputer fourth greenest in world

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre announced its latest supercomputer, Setonix, has been recognised as one of the greenest supercomputers in the world, after ranking in the top5 on the globally recognised Green500 list. Announced today at the international supercomputing conference SC22 in Texas, the ranking puts Setonix in company with exascale supercomputers Frontier in the US

Source: Mirage News

15 November 2022

Pawsey to Receive $22M in Western Australia Government Funding

Nov. 15, 2022 — The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre has welcomed the news that it will receive more than $22.4 million in funding from the Western Australian Government over five years, to support the positioning of WA as an international leader in high-performance computing (HPC). The announcement was made hours after Setonix, Pawsey’s new supercomputer

Source: HPCwire

15 November 2022

WA supercomputer one of the world’s greenest and most powerful

Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre’s newest supercomputer Setonix ranks fourth in globally recognised Green500 list Setonix named most powerful public research supercomputer in the Southern Hemisphere, ranking 15 in the global Top500 McGowan Government has boosted funding for the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, committing $22.4 million over five years Western Australia is officially home to one

Source: WA Government

12 October 2022

MARTIAN ROCK WINDS BACK THE CLOCK

Almost 10 million years ago, a meteorite crashed into Earth. Hidden inside were 23 microscopic grains which tell the story of how Mars evolved. Using one of WA’s most powerful supercomputers, astronomers have now uncovered the meteorite’s life story.

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10 October 2022

Decoding Signals From Space

Asian Scientist Magazine (Oct. 10, 2022) — From hologram Princess Leia in the internationally beloved Star Wars franchise to Bubs the robot in the popular Korean movie Space Sweepers, which space-themed science fiction story would be complete without a matrix of futuristic tech? Aboard Starfleet vessels, an entire arsenal of computers—even artificial intelligence units—and handheld Personal

Source: Asian Scientist

7 October 2022

Diamond future for Canberra’s Quantum Brilliance

In 2019, some intellectual property created through a research project at the Australian National University was spun out as a startup which might change how we all use computers. The research focused on diamond quantum science, and Quantum Brilliance was born, created to commercialise the technology and to produce lunchbox-sized quantum accelerators using these synthetic diamonds.

Source: Innovation Australia

23 September 2022

National Quantum Advisory Committee

The Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic MP, has announced the National Quantum Advisory Committee that will help drive Australia’s National Quantum Strategy. The 15-person committee, chaired by Australia’s Chief Scientist Dr Cathy Foley AO, will be an integral part of the push to coordinate Australia’s quantum capability across research, industry and government. Minister Husic also said

Source: Department of Industry and Science Media Releases

14 September 2022

Supercomputer produces a supernova

G261.9+5.5 has only been cursorily studied, and the previous best radio image of this SNR dates back to the late 1980s. That image — from the Australian MOST observatory — has a very low signal-to-noise ratio, and shows a barely discernible ring of emission with hints of substructure. The new ASKAP image shows 943.5 MHz

Source: Nature Astronomy

16 June 2022

First room-temperature quantum computer in supercomputing centre

The world’s first room-temperature diamond-based quantum computer, developed in Germany, has been installed on-site in a supercomputing facility in Australia. The installation at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre uses a rack mounted quantum computer developed by German-Australian start-up Quantum Brilliance. This uses a synthetic diamond chip with nitrogen vacancies to provide the quantum processing.

Source: ee News

16 June 2022

Diamond-based quantum computer paired with supercomputers for first time

Quantum computing may have just taken a major step forward, as a supercomputer facility in Australia becomes the first to have a quantum computer integrated into it. The quantum processor, developed by German-Australian start-up Quantum Brilliance, runs at room temperature, and will now work in tandem with classical supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre.

Source: New Atlas

26 May 2021

Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South Partner on Logistics Optimisation

Quantum Brilliance and Quantum-South today announced a partnership to jointly develop and market complementary products and technology in shipping logistics optimization. The companies will be performing proof-of-concept implementations with air and marine cargo companies to showcase the potential of quantum computing to solve highly complex logistics problems beyond the scope of today’s classical computers. The two firms are also working with the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the Quantum Supercomputing Innovation Hub to demonstrate quantum utility through co-development projects with Australian companies as part of the Quantum Pioneer Program.

Source: InsideHPC

26 May 2021

The History of Supercomputing vs. COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic poses a greater challenge to the high-performance computing community than any before. HPCwire‘s coverage of the supercomputing response to the pandemic began in early February 2020 and has since encompassed hundreds of articles

Source: HPC Wire

3 March 2021

SupercomputingAsia 2021 highlights cooperation as key in addressing future global challenges

Singapore: An MOU that was signed between Singapore entities and Finland’s CSC at the SCA21 conference is a reflection of the ongoing collaborative spirit in the HPC community. The MOU was announced by Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Minister-in-Charge of the Smart Nation Initiative at the Opening Ceremony of the SCA21 virtual conference, which adopted the theme ‘Supercomputing in the New Norm – Adapting to COVID-19 and beyond’.

Source: Daily FT

2 March 2021

Pawsey Centre names new supercomputer after quokka

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced that its new system will be named Setonix — the scientific name for the quokka. The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will be 30 times more powerful than Pawsey’s existing systems, Magnus and Galaxy, and will be used to help accelerate research projects such as the Square Kilometre Array.

Source: Technology Decisions

24 February 2021

Pawsey Supercomputer Centre to name new supercomputer ‘Setonix’, after quokka

Australia’s fastest new research supercomputer will be named after WA’s humble quokka. The Pawsey Supercomputer Centre, a government-supported national high-performance computing facility based in Kensington, said it will name its new system ‘Setonix’ after the scientific name for the quokka, Setonix brachyurus. The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will be much faster than Pawsey’s existing systems, Magnus and Galaxy.

Source: Perth Now

24 February 2021

Pawsey Reveals Name of Australia’s Fastest Research Supercomputer

A cheerful marsupial will lend its name to Australia’s fastest new research supercomputer, with Pawsey Centre confirming its new system will be named Setonix – the scientific name for the quokka, dubbed the world’s friendliest animal. The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will be 30 times more powerful than Pawsey’s existing systems, Magnus and Galaxy, and will be used to help accelerate research projects such as the Square Kilometre Array.

Source: HPCwire

24 February 2021

Pawsey unveils its super-fast tribute to quokka

The world’s friendliest animal will lend its name to Australia’s fastest new research supercomputer, with the Pawsey Centre confirming its new system will be named Setonix – the scientific name for the quokka. The HPE Cray EX supercomputer will be 30 times more powerful than Pawsey’s existing systems, Magnus and Galaxy, and will be used to help accelerate research projects such as the Square Kilometre Array.

Source: Mirage News

16 February 2021

Harnessing socially-distant molecular interactions for future computing

Could long-distance interactions between individual molecules forge a new way to compute? Interactions between individual molecules on a metal surface extend for surprisingly large distances - up to several nanometers. A new study, just published, of the changing shape of electronic states induced by these interactions, has potential future application in the use of molecules as individually addressable units.

Source: EurekAlert!

11 February 2021

In blink of an eye astronomers win prestigious American science prize

A team of scientists led by CSIRO astronomer Dr Keith Bannister has been awarded the 2020 AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize for the best science paper of the year by the prestigious publication, Science. The international team of 54 astronomers were the first to pinpoint the location of a fast radio burst. Fast radio bursts (FRB) are intense pulses of radio emission that last only a fraction of a second and had confounded astronomers for more than a decade.

Source: Mirage News

9 February 2021

AMD TAKES DOWN ANOTHER SUPERCOMPUTER DEAL IN EUROPE

The Dutch national supercomputer, called “Cartesius,” which is used for HPC education and research, is getting rather long in the tooth with some of its components being installed as far back as 2013. So the government of the Netherlands and the SURF supercomputing center are shelling out €20 million to build a new and as yet unnamed system at the SURF facility in the Amsterdam Data Tower (shown in the feature image) in the Dutch capital. Among architectural details, which we always find interesting, the deal to build this new system is interesting because Bull/Atos, the incumbent system supplier and clearly on the rise in the HPC sector in Europe, lost out to Lenovo, the heir to IBM’s former HPC business in Europe.

Source: The Next Platform

4 February 2021

Student astronomer finds galactic missing matter

Astronomers have for the first time used distant galaxies as 'scintillating pins' to locate and identify a piece of the Milky Way's missing matter. For decades, scientists have been puzzled as to why they couldn't account for all the matter in the universe as predicted by theory. While most of the universe's mass is thought to be mysterious dark matter and dark energy, 5 percent is 'normal matter' that makes up stars, planets, asteroids, peanut butter and butterflies. This is known as baryonic matter.

Source: EurekAlert!

26 January 2021

A new 3D koala genome will aid efforts to defend the threatened species

Koalas are unique in the animal kingdom, living on a eucalyptus diet that would kill other creatures and drinking so little their name comes from the Dharug word gula, meaning “no water”. Today, many koala populations across Australia are in decline, due to habitat destruction caused by agriculture, urbanisation, droughts and bushfires intensified by climate change, and diseases such as chlamydia and koala retrovirus.

Source: The Conversation

26 January 2021

Nano-Thin Piezoelectrics Advance Self-Powered Electronics

A new type of ultra-efficient, nano-thin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies and even deliver pacemakers powered by heart beats. The flexible and printable piezoelectric material, which can convert mechanical pressure into electrical energy, has been developed by an Australian research team led by RMIT University.

Source: India Education Daily

19 January 2021

Nano-thin piezoelectrics advance self-powered electronics

A new type of ultra-efficient, nano-thin material could advance self-powered electronics, wearable technologies and even deliver pacemakers powered by heart beats. The flexible and printable piezoelectric material, which can convert mechanical pressure into electrical energy, has been developed by an Australian research team led by RMIT University.

Source: EurekAlert!

3 December 2020

Mapa do Universo é gerado em menos de 300 horas

Em 2009, o povo Wajarri Yamatji e a Organização de Pesquisa Científica e Industrial da Commonwealth (CSIRO) fizeram um acordo para levantar, em terras aborígenes, o Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), o conjunto de 36 radiotelescópios que vasculham o cosmos dia e noite. A parceria tem dado frutos ao longo dos anos, mas nada como o que foi anunciado agora: um mapa de todo o Universo concluído em menos de 15 dias.

Source: Tecmundo

2 December 2020

Australian telescope creates a new atlas of the Universe

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the Universe where most of the millions of star-like points on the map are distant galaxies – about a million of which we’ve never seen before.

Source: PACE Today

2 December 2020

Astronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time

02 December 2020NewsAstronomers map a million previously undiscovered galaxies in record time ASKAP's atlas of the southern sky, collected at record speed in just 300 hours. Image: CSIRO ASKAP's atlas of the southern sky, collected at record speed in just 300 hours. Image: CSIRO by Kerry Hebden In a feat which normally takes years to complete, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia's national science agency, CSIRO, has mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The study, dubbed the Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey (RACS), surveyed 83 percent of the sky in record-breaking time to produce the most detailed survey of the southern sky ever carried out using radio waves.

Source: Room: Space Journal of Asgardia

2 December 2020

Research gets closer to making nuclear fusion power a reality

A new study published in the Atomic Data and Nuclear Data Tables journal claims to have taken a major step towards making nuclear fusion power a reality. In the study, lead researcher and PhD candidate at Australia’s Curtin University, Liam Scarlett, presents a database of electron-molecule reactions that will allow other scientists to accurately model plasmas containing molecular hydrogen.

Source: Mining dot com

2 December 2020

Pawsey’s Galaxy Supercomputer Aids Telescope in Creating New Atlas of the Universe

The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), developed and operated by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, mapped approximately three million galaxies in just 300 hours. The Rapid ASKAP Continuum Survey is like a Google map of the universe where most of the millions of star-like points on the map are distant galaxies—about a million of which we’ve never seen before.

Source: HPCwire

1 December 2020

L’atlante cosmico di Askap

Tre milioni di galassie in trecento ore. Il precursore australiano di Ska ha completato la sua prima survey dell’intero cielo meridionale con velocità e dettagli record, creando un nuovo atlante dell’universo. Il supercomputer Galaxy del Pawsey Supercomputing Centre ha convertito i dati in immagini radio 2D da 70 miliardi di pixel

Source: Media INAF

1 December 2020

Australian SKA Pathfinder maps 3 million galaxies at lightning speed

It took just 300 hours to survey the entire southern sky to create a new atlas of the Universe. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) has completed its first survey of the entire southern sky, creating what the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has labelled as a new atlas of the Universe. The ASKAP mapped approximately 3 million galaxies in just 300 hours. The 13.5 exabytes of raw data generated by ASKAP was processed using hardware and software custom-built by CSIRO.

Source: ZDNet

1 December 2020

CSIRO telescope creates ‘atlas of the universe’

Parses 13.5 exabytes of data on Pawsey supercomputer. A new CSIRO telescope mapped out the sky in just three weeks, building a new foundation for the future of radio astronomy. The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) started its first full survey of the celestial sphere in April last year. Its large team of scientist have just published the first results in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.

Source: ACS Information Age

20 November 2020

Supercomputer to speed up genomic sequencing

AGRICULTURAL researchers will be among the beneficiaries of an upgrade at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth. Pawsey recently announced the purchase of a new supercomputer, in the centre's biggest upgrade since opening in 2009, funded by a government grant. The new supercomputer will deliver up to 50 petaFLOPs, or 30 times more compute power than its predecessor.

Source: North Queensland Register

20 November 2020

Supercomputer to speed up genomic sequencing

AGRICULTURAL researchers will be among the beneficiaries of an upgrade at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth. The centre is a joint venture between CSIRO, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia, supported by the Western Australian and Federal Governments. Pawsey recently announced the purchase of a new supercomputer, in the centre's biggest upgrade since opening in 2009, funded by a government grant.

Source: Farm Weekly

14 November 2020

HPE TO BUILD NEW PAWSEY SUPERCOMPUTER AT PAWSEY SUPERCOMPUTING CENTER

Last month, Pawsey Supercomputing Center selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its new supercomputer as part of the biggest upgrade to the Pawsey computing infrastructure, which opened in 2009. As a result, HPE was awarded AU$48 million contract for the same, following a thorough tender process led by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization), the center agent for Pawsey, based on energy efficiency, cost, and HPE’s integrated hardware and software solution.

Source: Analytics Insight

3 November 2020

HPE to build new Pawsey supercomputers

Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has been awarded a A$48m contract to build a supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s national supercomputing centres located in Western Australia. The supercomputer is part of a A$70m programme funded by the Australian government to invest in next-generation supercomputing to advance the nation’s research.

Source: Computer Weekly

29 October 2020

Podcast #69: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

The HPC world is always one that’s a little amorphous to me. The workloads and analysis the scientists and researchers use are dramatically different than the garden variety applications we see in the enterprise. As such, these large Supercomputer sites operate differently in a number of ways. this podcast, I talk with a pair of Mark’s (Science Mark and Business Mark) from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia. They’re making a $70 AUD million (~$50 USD million) investment to bring to life the next generation of their center. The bulk of those funds will go toward the yet-to-be-named Supercomputer itself, an HPE Cray EX powered by more than 200,000 AMD EPYC CPUs. Once complete, this will be Australia’s largest Supercomputer.

Source: Storage Review

29 October 2020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will build a $160 million supercomputer in Finland

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has been awarded over $160 million to build a supercomputer called LUMI in Finland. LUMI will be funded by the European Joint Undertaking EuroHPC, a joint supercomputing collaboration between national governments and the European Union. The supercomputer will have a theoretical peak performance of more than 550 petaflops and is expected to best the RIKEN Center for Computational Science’s top-performing Fugaku petascale computer, which reached 415.5 petaflops in June 2020.

Source: Venture Beat

27 October 2020

CORRECTING and REPLACING Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Advancing Scientific Research at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

Pawsey will gain 30X more compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs In the first paragraph of release, $ amounts should be in AUD. The updated release reads: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE SELECTED TO BUILD AUSTRALIA’S MOST POWERFUL SUPERCOMPUTER FOR ADVANCING SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AT PAWSEY SUPERCOMPUTING CENTRE

Source: Yahoo Finance

27 October 2020

Pawsey kicks off new HPC program to scale up research sector

Preparing users for new $48m machine. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is creating a training and support program to help researchers take full advantage of a $48 million supercomputer due to come online in 2022. The Pawsey Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PaCER) program targets “grand challenges,” or scientific problems that would not be able to be processed on its current Magnus and Galaxy supercomputers, which will be superseded by the as-yet-unnamed new machine.

Source: IT News

26 October 2020

Pawsey Launches New Partnering Program, to Achieve HPC Research at Scale

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has opened a call for submissions for a new program that will provide training and support for Australia’s research community, to prepare researchers for the next era of supercomputing and help them to deliver outcomes that benefit the nation. Pawsey Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PaCER) program will enable researchers to take full advantage of its new HPE Cray 50PFlops supercomputer, which will be 30 times faster than its current systems – Magnus and Galaxy – and is expected to be fully commissioned by 2022

Source: HPC Wire

23 October 2020

Women in HPC (WHPC) Forms New Australasian Chapter

Oct. 23, 2020 — An Australasian Chapter of the global organisation Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) is aiming to better support diversity within and across the Australian and New Zealand HPC and eResearch sectors. The initiative, a collaboration between Monash University, Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO), NCI Australia, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and New Zealand eScience Infrastructure, was announced at the eResearch Australasia (eResAU) Conference 2020. “I’m thrilled to be announcing the Australasian Chapter of Women in HPC and the formalisation of what was already a growing community,” says Sam Moskwa, AeRO CEO. “It is not a group just for women but also allies and we want to be inclusive of diversity beyond gender.”

Source: HPC Wire

23 October 2020

Minister hails Pawsey supercomputer advance

Science Minister Dave Kelly welcomes Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s decision on new supercomputer provider System will be 30 times more powerful than previous systems New supercomputer will allow WA to play bigger role in globe-shaping research projects Science Minister Dave Kelly has welcomed Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s milestone to award the contract for its new supercomputer.

Source: Mirage News

22 October 2020

HPE to build Pawsey’s new $48m supercomputer

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its new supercomputer, which will be at least 10 times more power efficient than its predecessors Magnus and Galaxy. Pawsey’s new supercomputer will be built using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer and will feature expanded data storage, a 30-fold increase in computing power and future-generation AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs.

Source: Australian Manufacturing

22 October 2020

HPE to power new Pawsey supercomputer for Australian research

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its new supercomputer, which will power future high-impact Australian research projects. HPE was selected as the preferred vendor under a $48 million agreement following a thorough tender process led by Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, the centre agent for Pawsey, based on energy efficiency, cost, and HPE’s integrated hardware and software solution. Director of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Mark Stickells, said the new system will help propel the position of Australian research on the global stage.

Source: Manufacturers Monthly

21 October 2020

HPE Cray EX to give Pawsey a 30x compute boost

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its new supercomputer, as part of the biggest upgrade to the Pawsey computing infrastructure since the centre opened in 2009. The new supercomputer will be at least 10 times more power efficient than its predecessors, Magnus and Galaxy, while providing a 30-fold increase in raw computer power.

Source: Technology Decisions

21 October 2020

Market cap of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company [HPE] reaches 12.52B – now what?

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company [NYSE: HPE] price plunged by -0.11 percent to reach at -$0.01. The company report on October 19, 2020 that CORRECTING and REPLACING Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Advancing Scientific Research at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Pawsey will gain 30X more compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs .

Source: DBT News

21 October 2020

HPE to build Pawsey’s newest supercomputer

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) to deliver its new supercomputer as part of the biggest upgrade to the Pawsey computing infrastructure since the centre opened in 2009. The new supercomputer will deliver up to 50 petaFLOPs, or 30 times more compute power than its predecessor systems Magnus and Galaxy, to help power the future high-impact Australian research projects.

Source: IT Brief

20 October 2020

HPE to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Pawsey

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, Western Australia, has had a busy year. Pawsey typically spends much of its time looking to the stars, working with a variety of observatories and astronomers – but when COVID-19 hit, Earth demanded more of its attention. Even during a hectic time, Pawsey managed to net four nominations in the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards, including one for its work on COVID-19. Now, Pawsey is receiving a major upgrade to its supercomputing capabilities: a $33.8 million system provided by HPE that will stand as the most powerful system in Australia.

Source: HPC Wire

20 October 2020

New supercomputer for Pawsey Centre

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced its biggest ever upgrade – an HPE supercomputer capable of performing at up to 50 petaFLOPs, which is 30 times the compute power of Pawsey's Magnus and Galaxy systems. The new supercomputer will be based on the HPE Cray EX architecture, with AMD Epyc CPUs and AMD Instinct GPUs. The upgrade also includes an expanded Cray Clusterstor E1000 storage system. It will be delivered in two stages. Phase 1, to be completed by Q3 2021, will provide a 45% increase in raw compute power compared with the Magnus and Galaxy systems, yet it will be just one-fifth of the size. Phase 2 should be completed by Q2 2022.

Source: IT Wire

20 October 2020

Pawsey to build new $48m supercomputer

Massive upgrade to the WA research centre. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is building a new $48 million supercomputer system in a bid to become a world leader of research computing. Drawing its 50 petaFLOPS from over 200,000 CPU cores, the new Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Cray EX is a massive upgrade over Pawsey’s existing Magnus

Source: ACS Information Age

20 October 2020

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) is set for a tempting yields with an average volume of 10.44M

Let’s start up with the current stock price of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE), which is $9.56 to be very precise. The Stock rose vividly during the last session to $10.03 after opening rate of $9.96 while the lowest price it went was recorded $9.46 before closing at $9.48. Recently in News on October 19, 2020, CORRECTING and REPLACING Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Advancing Scientific Research at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Pawsey will gain 30X more compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs . You can read further details here

Source: Invest Chronicle

20 October 2020

HPE builds supercomputer in Australia for scientific research

(HPE) has been selected to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Center, one of Western Australia's largest and most innovative national supercomputing centers. The new supercomputer has a contract value of $ 48 million and is part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh Program. This program, funded by the Australian government, has $ 70 million to boost scientific research in the country through investments in supercomputers.

Source: Executive People

20 October 2020

HPE to build CSIRO $48M supercomputer

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has won a $48 million project with research agency CSIRO to build a new supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia. The integrated hardware and software solution features the new Cray EX system that promises to be 30x as fast as two of the centre's existing supercomputers (Magnus and Galaxy).

Source: ARN

20 October 2020

CORRECTING and REPLACING Hewlett Packard Enterprise Selected to Build Australia’s Most Powerful Supercomputer for Advancing Scientific Research at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

Pawsey will gain 30X more compute power and 10X more energy efficiency with advanced supercomputing solutions using the HPE Cray EX supercomputer featuring future AMD EPYC™ CPUs and AMD Instinct™ GPUs CORRECTION...by Hewlett Packard Enterprise October 19, 2020 10:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In the first paragraph of release, $ amounts should be in AUD.

Source: Business Wire

20 October 2020

HPE to deliver Pawsey’s new AU$48m research supercomputer

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia will be receiving a new supercomputer thanks to a AU$48 million contract signed with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The new supercomputer will deliver up to 30 times more compute power -- 50 petaflops -- than its predecessor systems Magnus and Galaxy.

Source: ZDNet

20 October 2020

HPE inks $48M contract for Australia’s supercomputing center

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE:HPE) awarded a A$48M contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia’s supercomputing center located in Western Australia. The new supercomputer is part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh Program, which is a $70M program funded by the Australian government to invest in next-generation supercomputing to advance the nation’s research.

Source: Seeking Alpha

20 October 2020

HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s leading national supercomputing centers, located in Western Australia. The new supercomputer is part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh Program, which is a $70 AUD million program funded by the Australian government to invest in next-generation supercomputing to advance the nation’s research.

Source: InsideHPC

19 October 2020

HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it was awarded a $48 AUD million contract to build a new supercomputer for Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, one of Australia’s leading national supercomputing centers, located in Western Australia. The new supercomputer is part of the Pawsey Capital Refresh Program, which is a $70 AUD million program funded by the Australian government to

Source: Inside HPC

19 October 2020

AMD scores 200,000 cores worth of secret silicon at new Australian supercomputer

Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has bet on unannounced AMD Epyc silicon to power a new 50-petaFLOP supercomputer. The centre refused to reveal clock speeds or other details of the silicon to us but did say that it will comprise over 1,600 dual-socket nodes and utilise over 200,000 cores. Those figures yield a per-machine core count of 125. We're willing to round that up to 128 and suggest that the centre is betting on the forthcoming Milan edition of AMD’s Epyc processors, which is widely expected to debut late in 2020. Today's Rome generation already reaches 64 cores per CPU, so if Milan goes there, too, it won’t be a surprise.

Source: The Register

19 October 2020

HPE AND AMD BAG THE BIG SUPERCOMPUTER DEAL DOWN UNDER

Speaking very generally, investment in capability-class supercomputers by national governments tends to scale with gross domestic product. The bigger the particular national economy, the bigger the investment in flops. And so when it comes to Australia, with the highest median wealth per citizen in the world – it jockeys with Switzerland in recent years on that metric – and a GDP of $1.89 trillion in Australian dollars in 2019 – $1.32 trillion in US dollars at exchange rates prevailing as 2019 came to a close – not only do we expect for the country to invest heavily in supercomputers. The people and businesses of Australia expect its governments to do so.

Source: The Next Platform

15 October 2020

Harvesting data from large radio telescope arrays

Mark Stickells, executive director at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, highlights the work done in Australia to deliver supercomputing facilities and the resources needed From its inception, the Pawsey facility has been dedicated to providing supercomputing to Australian scientists and researchers. The facility is also positioned as a major hub for radio astronomy.

Source: Scientific Computing World

21 September 2020

Massive Hunt for Extraterrestrial Life Completed: What Astronomers Found in Search of 10 Million Star Systems for Alien Technology

A radio telescope in outback Western Australia has completed the deepest and broadest search at low frequencies for alien technologies, scanning a patch of sky known to include at least 10 million stars. Astronomers used the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope to explore hundreds of times more broadly than any previous search for extraterrestrial life. The study, published this month in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, observed the sky around the Vela constellation. But in this part of the Universe at least, it appears other civilizations are elusive, if they exist.

Source: SciTech Daily

18 September 2020

Researchers recognised at WA Young Tall Poppy Science Awards

Four Curtin University researchers have been recognised at last night’s 2020 Western Australian Young Tall Poppy Science Awards, acknowledging their exceptional research and passionate commitment to communicating science. Restorative ecologist Dr Adam Cross, computational chemist Dr Raffaella Demichelis, liver disease researcher Associate Professor Nina Tirnitz-Parker and coral biodiversity expert Dr Zoe Richards were among seven of Western Australia’s outstanding researchers awarded with WA Young Tall Poppy Science Awards. Curtin University Vice-Chancellor Professor John Cordery congratulated the four Curtin Tall Poppies on being honoured by the Australian Institute of Policy and Science.

Source: Mirage News

4 September 2020

Pawsey brings new $2m GPU cluster online

To power AI-backed astronomy. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has set live a new $2 million cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs) to power research using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) telescope. The cluster was procured from HPE earlier this year as part of Pawsey’s $70 million capital refresh project funded by the federal government. Dubbed Garrawarla, meaning ‘spider’ in the language of the Wajarri people whose land the telescope sits on, the dedicated 78-node cluster processes the petabytes of data streamed from the MWA.

Source: IT News

3 September 2020

Pawsey GPU cluster helps scientists unlock astronomical data

A new GPU cluster supporting one of Australia’s Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor telescopes is now operational at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, enabling researchers to accelerate their data processing and deliver new insights about the universe. Named Garrawarla, meaning ‘spider’ in the language of the Wajarri people from the land on which the telescope is located, the dedicated 78-node cluster is being used to process petabytes of data streamed from the MWA. Garrawarla provides users with enhanced GPU capabilities to power AI, computational work, machine learning workflows and data analytics. Garrawarla is comprised of Seventy Eight HPE XL190 Gen10 Servers with Dual Intel Xeon 6230 ‘Cascade Lake’ processors (2.1 GHz, 20 cores), 384 GB RAM, 960 GB NVMe, mexxanox 100 Gb/s Infiniband and a NVIDIA V100 GPU.

Source: Scientific Computing World

1 September 2020

World-first science helps beloved quokka

DNA Zoo project scientists map the quokka genome World-first discovery helps scientists learn more about the species Discovery coincides during quokka’s second birthday The McGowan Government has applauded the world-first genome mapping of Western Australia’s iconic quokkas by scientists from The University of Western Australia. Researchers have mapped a chromosome-length genome from the species which

Source: Mirage News

25 August 2020

Supercomputer Simulation could show us how to stop COVID

The White House Office of Science and Technology named Gadi and CSIRO’s Pawsey Supercomputer Centre’s Nimbus as members of the US-led COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. As the “Australian HPC COVID-19 Rapid Response (NCI Australia and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre)”, the two supercomputers will be available to researchers from around the world who are tacking COVID-19

Source: ANU College of Science

18 August 2020

NCI, Pawsey join US-led compute consortium for COVID-19 research

Making HPC capacity available. Australia’s two largest high performance computing (HPC) centres have joined a US-led consortium to provide governments, industry and academics the computing resources they need to support COVID-19 research. The National Computing Infrastructure (NCI) and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre were named by the White House Office of Science and Technology as partners in

Source: IT News

14 August 2020

PACER project to accelerate Australian HPC research

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre for Extreme scale Readiness (PACER) programme to help computational researchers and prepare them for the next era of supercomputing, in time for the next Pawsey supercomputing system. PACER will involve the application adaptation and optimisation of selected, significant challenges of science on an extreme scale

Source: Scientific Computing World

14 August 2020

What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Antibodies, Arm, Australia & More

Supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are urgently devoting their computing resources to this global crisis. This column collects the biggest news about how advanced technologies are helping us fight back against COVID-19. Australia joins the COVID-19 HPC

Source: HPCwire

13 August 2020

Australia joins the Covid-19 HPC Consortium

NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium. The consortium pools supercomputing power and offers it to researchers fighting to coronavirus pandemic. Every flop helps The HPC group was originally created by the White House, Department of Energy, and IBM, but has since expanded to include most

Source: DCD

13 August 2020

Pawsey, NCI join White House led research

The White House Office of Science and Technology has announced that NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have joined the US-led COVID High Performance Computing (HPC) Consortium. Joining the group as a Collaborating Initiative, the Australian research facilities join the European Union’s PRACE as an international affiliated initiative. The Consortium is a unique private-public

Source: Innovation Aus

12 August 2020

White House OSTP Holds Joint Commission Meeting with Australia on Science and Frontier Technologies

The Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Dr. Kelvin Droegemeier and U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios on Tuesday led the American delegation for the Joint Commission Meeting (JCM) on Science and Frontier Technologies Dialogue with Australia to further strengthen our research relationship. The Honorable Karen Andrews, Minister for

Source: HPCwire

5 August 2020

Video: Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Provides Update on COVID-19 Research

Aug. 5, 2020 — Shared workflows, virus’ lineage, statistical inferences about potential treatment outcomes, COVID-19 targets molecular modelling are some of the collaborations taking place at the two national tier-1 supercomputing facilities to fight the pandemic. In early April, Australia’s Tier 1 supercomputing facilities, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre (Pawsey) and National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), joined forces to offer

Source: HPC Wire

30 June 2020

How Australia’s supercomputers crunched the numbers to guide our bushfire and pandemic response

As 2020 began, Australia was stunned by the worst bushfires on record. Six months later we are weathering the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe. This year, perhaps more than ever before, decision-makers, emergency services, health providers and threatened communities have needed fast, reliable information to understand what’s happening. And beyond that, they have needed high-powered

Source: The Mandarin

23 June 2020

Perth supercomputing grant to enhance space data

A new Australian Space Data Analysis Facility (ASDAF) will help analysis of satellite data by small to medium enterprises and researchers. Part of the $19.5m Space Infrastructure Fund, the facility will provide improved analysis of Earth observation and space situational awareness data. Western Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is the recipient of a $1.5 million Australian

Source: Mirage

22 June 2020

New WA capability to lead space data analysis

Western Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, in partnership with the Curtin University-based WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH), has been awarded more than $2 million in Federal and State Government funding to establish a new national space data analysis facility in Perth. The Australian Space Data Analysis Facility (ASDAF) will support researchers and small to medium

Source: Mirage

25 May 2020

Keep up! Quantum Computing is Australia’s Jar of Tech Disruption

When we talk about technology, people usually connect it with the physical devices that are electrical or digital. However, technology rings in far more than that. Now when the world is shifting towards online platforms, usually on mobile and using the technology in different ways, over the period, a paradigm shift has been witnessed in the absorption of technology across the world. Technology disruption is expediting- A robust convergence of technological trends is paving the way for propagating it further.

Source: Kalkine Media

22 May 2020

Pawsey to install quantum-emulator at supercomputing centre

Developing quantum capability with Canberra’s Quantum Brilliance. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is taking a stake in the race to develop quantum computing capabilities by partnering with Canberra based company Quantum Brilliance. Pawsey staff will establish an expertise in quantum computing systems through the partnership, before installing and providing access to a quantum emulator at its supercomputing centres. Ugo Varetto, chief technology officer at Pawsey, said the partnership will help ensure the research community has access to the best possible service.

Source: IT News

22 May 2020

ANU at forefront of Australia’s Quantum Future

The Australian National University (ANU) will play a key role in shaping Australia's next-generation technology, according to a new roadmap for the emerging quantum industry launched by the CSIRO today. The roadmap recognises ANU as a leading example across quantum research, education and commercialisation. Dr Marcus Doherty says quantum technology has the ability to transform the 21st century, especially in the areas of computing, communications, sensing and imaging.

Source: ANU College of Science

22 May 2020

Quantum technology holds ‘huge potential’ in Australia – report

The quantum technology sector could create 16,000 jobs in Australia and generate over AU$4 billion in annual revenue in the next 20 years, according to CSIRO, the country’s national science agency. Quantum technology – an emerging field of tech which relies on the principles of quantum physics – could potentially advance technological capabilities in several different sectors, including communications, drug and materials development and national security, SCIRO says. Just as quantum physics deals with the behaviour of the world at the smallest scale, quantum technology aims to innovate tech to control quantum particles and influence their behaviour.

Source: Channel Life

22 May 2020

Pawsey partners for quantum moon shot

Australia has an opportunity to build a world-leading quantum computing industry and develop important sovereign capability in the technology, according to Quantum Brilliance chief executive Andrew Horsley. Quantum Brilliance is an Australian quantum computing hardware provider spun out of the Australian National University last year. The company uses artificial diamonds to power its quantum computers, which there is no need for the complex cooling systems typically associated with the technology.

Source: Innovation Aus

21 May 2020

Australia’s new quantum-supercomputing innovation hub and CSIRO roadmap

The nation's peak science body releases a report on how Australia can capitalise on the AU$4 billion quantum opportunity as the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre launches new innovation hub. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and Canberra-based quantum computing hardware startup Quantum Brilliance have announced a new hub that aims to combine innovations from both sectors. The partnership will see quantum expertise developed among Pawsey staff to then install and provide access to a quantum emulator at Pawsey and to work alongside Australian researchers.

Source: ZDNet

19 May 2020

Pawsey Expertise Accelerated Genome Assembly for Early COVID-19 Detection

Researchers using Pawsey supercomputing and expertise have recently demonstrated a fast, sensitive diagnostic test for SARS-CoV-2. The new approach can reliably detect lower concentrations of the virus than most existing tests and provides more genetic information about the novel coronavirus for researchers trying to trace its development and spread and create a vaccine. The automated analysis pipeline developed was beta tested at Pawsey towards providing a one-click diagnostic report containing the test result (positive or negative), the SARS-CoV-2 genome identified, as well as any other viral genome assemblies also detected, such as the local flu.

Source: HPC Wire

11 May 2020

Australian Supercomputers to help fight COVID-19

Supercomputing Centre are supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through provision of streamlined, prioritized and expedited access to computation and data resources. Both national facilities are contributing resources to support researchers in Australia in the fight against COVID-19. NCI today announces support for three targeted projects with over 40 million units of compute time, which is equivalent to one single computer doing constant calculations for over 4,500 years, on the Gadi supercomputer; while Pawsey Supercomputer Centre has provided access for researchers across five projects to over 1100 cores on the new deployed Nimbus cloud.

Source: Inside HPC

4 May 2020

SMBs Can Go to HPC Shops as the Original Cloud Service Providers

SMBs have more opportunities than ever to explore advanced computing use cases with HPC resources on demand from experienced providers. There are few topics in the IT world hotter than cloud right now. The market is blossoming as cloud providers and the underlying technologies required to make it mainstream — such as containers and microservices along with dedicated connections — have matured to take cloud past the point of acceptance to become a business imperative. According to Gartner, “at this point, cloud adoption is mainstream.” The public cloud services market is predicted to grow 17% in 2020, to reach US$266 billion by the end of this year. US$116 billion of that market will be software as a service (SaaS), with infrastructure as a service (IaaS) a close second, predicted to reach US$50 billion by year’s end.[1]

Source: HPC Wire

1 May 2020

Call for Expressions of Interest for 2020-2023 National Computational Merit Allocation Committee Membership

The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) issued a call of expression of interest for membership for the period 2020-2020 with the National Computational Merit Allocation Committee (NCMAC). The deadline to submit an application is Friday, May 22, 2020, at 11:49 pm AEST. To be eligible, submit the EOI to ncmas-secretariat@nci.org.au. NCMAS provides access, based on research and computational merit, for researchers at Australian universities and publicly- funded research agencies, to resource shares at the major national computational facilities. These facilities have been developed through substantial infrastructure investments in recent years by the Commonwealth Government (under its NCRIS and Super Science programs), with the operations of these facilities being supported by established collaborations that involve research universities and national agencies.

Source: HPC Wire

30 April 2020

UWA Expert Series – DNA may hold the key to protecting populations from COVID-19

Scientists from The University of Western Australia’s Faculty of Science are part of a global team that is developing a new DNA test for COVID-19, which can provide faster and more detailed results than other tests. This test can be used to understand how COVID-19 is mutating, aid vaccine development and understand its journey across populations globally – for instance, how it adapts to a new host. It is currently being used for COVID-19 research, but once approved by the US Food and Drug administration it can be used for both the diagnostic testing of patients and to enable a better understanding of the virus.

Source: UWA News

28 April 2020

What’s New in Computing vs. COVID-19: Argonne, Australia, JEDI & More

Supercomputing, big data and artificial intelligence are crucial tools in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Around the world, researchers, corporations and governments are urgently devoting their computing resources to this global crisis. This column collects the biggest news about how advanced technologies are helping us fight back against COVID-19.

Source: HPC Wire

23 April 2020

ALCG: Largest Computing Grants in Australian History Announced

NCI Australia has announced the recipients of the inaugural Australasian Leadership Computing Grants (ALCG). The ALCG COVID-19 Special Call is still ongoing, and researchers can still apply for resources at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. The Australian researchers receiving these highly competitive grants will tackle the biggest problems at the highest resolution, in the shortest time, thanks to record-breaking access to NCI’s supercomputer. NCI Director Professor Sean Smith says the ALCG was designed to identify meritorious research projects with demonstrated ability to use HPC systems effectively at scale.

Source: HPC Wire

21 April 2020

Leaders in Australian Computing Research Begin Battle with COVID-19

NCI Australia and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre are supporting the Australian and international research community undertaking COVID-19 research through the provision of streamlined, prioritized and expedited access to computation and data resources. Both national facilities are contributing resources to support researchers in Australia in the fight against COVID-19. NCI today announces support for three targeted projects with over 40 million units of compute time, which is equivalent to one single computer doing constant calculations for over 4,500 years, on the Gadi supercomputer; while Pawsey Supercomputer Centre has provided access for researchers across five projects to over 1100 cores on the new deployed Nimbus cloud.

Source: HPC Wire

17 April 2020

Consortia lend their supercomputers to fight COVID-19

National labs, universities, and companies around the world are fast-tracking proposals to use their high-performance computer resources against the novel coronavirus. It took scientists only a few days in January to deduce the genome of the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, giving researchers around the world blueprints to the virus’s molecular tools and machinery. But for computational chemists and biophysicists, the hard work is just beginning. They have spent the past 2 months using those blueprints to build computer models of the virus’s proteins. These models could help them figure out how the proteins interact with human cells and could help them find therapies to prevent infections or treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. The scientists are now beginning to deploy these carefully crafted models.

Source: C&EN

12 April 2020

STA members offer data support for COVID-19 research

Australian leaders in high-performance computing (HPC) have come together to offer additional computation and data resources in the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Accelerated Access Initiatives from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI Australia) will help research projects analyse, store and share data. Services available include high-performance computing on the NCI’s new Gadi supercomputer – the most powerful in Australia – and cloud resources through Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s large data stores with up to 100TB of storage available.

Source: Mirage News

27 March 2020

Australian Supercomputing Centers Join Efforts Against COVID-19

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and NCI Australia today launched a COVID-19 Special call for High-Performance Computing (HPC), cloud, storage resources and associated technical support for research projects directly responding to the pandemic. All research (academic, government or commercial sector) focussed on tackling the COVID-19 pandemic which requires computation and/or data resources will be considered.

Source: HPC Wire

27 March 2020

NCI, Pawsey put the call out for COVID-19 data

Offers free, expedited HPC gruntwork. Two of Australia’s high performance computing (HPC) heavyweights have joined forces to offer additional computation and data resources for the national and international fight against the coronavirus pandemic. The COVID-19 Special Call from the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) is intended to identify projects that will benefit from additional help acquiring, processing, analysing, storing and sharing data related to research on the outbreak.

Source: IT News

25 March 2020

Pawsey Expands GPU Capability with Topaz Cluster From XENON Systems

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth selects XENON Systems to deliver a new Linux based GPU cluster, named Topaz. This new cluster is the latest addition to Pawsey in its on-going program of expanding capabilities and delivering the latest technology to researchers. This refresh expands the capacity at Pawsey to meet the growing demands for GPU based processing. It provides the infrastructure for Pawsey researchers to continue to develop their skills on the latest GPU technology. This new cluster is complementary to the existing Zeus cluster, with Topaz providing researchers with enhanced visualization and GPU compute capabilities and increased batch processing speeds.

Source: HPC Wire

24 March 2020

WA science and industry leaders put their heads together to search for first stars and galaxies

Astrophysicists, telescopes, supercomputers, and software engineers have joined forces to search for signals from the early Universe. The team from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG), used hundreds of hours of observations from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope collected over five years. “We’re looking for the first stars and galaxies that formed after the Big Bang almost 13 billion years ago,” said Associate Professor Cathryn Trott, from the Curtin University node of ICRAR and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3D (ASTRO 3D).

Source: Mirage News

24 March 2020

Searching for the first stars and galaxies

Astrophysicists, telescopes, supercomputers, and software engineers have joined forces to search for signals from the early Universe. The team from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and DownUnder GeoSolutions (DUG), used hundreds of hours of observations from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope collected over five years. "We're looking for the first stars and galaxies that formed after the Big Bang almost 13 billion years ago," said Associate Professor Cathryn Trott, from the Curtin University node of ICRAR and the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-Sky Astrophysics in 3-D (ASTRO 3-D).

Source: Phys Org

22 March 2020

Aussie supercomputers brace for COVID-19 impact

Pawsey, NCI prepare to WFH. Two of Australia’s largest high performance computing (HPC) facilities are readying their staff and users for the potential impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including possible disruptions to service if staff aren’t on premises to address disruptions. Both the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth and the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australian National University have advised that staff are already implementing social distancing techniques in the office and preparing to work from home if necessary.

Source: IT News

18 March 2020

Machine learning pushes quantum computing forward

Researchers have created a machine learning framework to precisely locate atom-sized quantum bits in silicon. It’s a crucial step for building a large-scale silicon quantum computer, the researchers report. Here, Muhammad Usman and Lloyd Hollenberg of the University of Melbourne explain their research and what it means for the future of quantum computers: Quantum computers are expected to offer tremendous computational power for complex problems—currently intractable even on supercomputers—in the areas of drug design, data science, astronomy, and materials chemistry among others.

Source: Futurity: Research News

5 March 2020

Pawsey upgrade to help astronomers process 30 PB data

A $2 million compute cluster will soon help astronomers process in excess of 30+ PB of Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope data. The 546 TeraFlop, 78-node cluster will be delivered by HPE and is expected to “provide users with enhanced GPU capabilities to power AI, computational work, machine learning and data analytics”, according to Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, which commissioned the new infrastructure.

Source: Technology Decisions

3 March 2020

Swinburne astronomer awarded Pawsey Medal for scientific excellence

Swinburne’s Associate Professor Adam Deller has been awarded the prestigious Pawsey Medal by the Australian Academy of Science. The Pawsey Medal recognises outstanding research in physics by early-mid career scientists. Associate Professor Deller is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and an Associate Investigator of the Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Research, known as OzGrav, which is headquartered at Swinburne.

Source: Swinburne University Latest News

2 March 2020

HPE to deliver small supercomputer for Australia’s MWA Telescope

HPE will deliver a supercomputing cluster to support the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope in Australia. The AU$2m ($1.3m) deployment comes ahead of an AU$70 million (US$46m) supercomputing refresh at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Clusters for arrays "The new MWA cluster at Pawsey will feature 156 of the latest generation of Intel [Xeon Gold 6230] CPUs and 78 cutting-edge [Nvidia V100] GPUs with more high-bandwidth memory, internal high-speed storage and more memory per node," Mark Stickells, Pawsey Executive Director, said.

Source: Data Centre Dynamics

2 March 2020

Pawsey’s new AU$2m HPE supercomputer to support Square Kilometre Array

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced a new addition to its Perth, Western Australia facility, which will be used to support one of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) precursor projects. For a cost of AU$2 million, HPE will deliver the new 78-node cluster, which is expected to provide a dedicated system for astronomers to process in excess of 30 petabytes of data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope.

Source: ZDNet

2 March 2020

HPE to deliver new processing system for the Murchison Widefield Array

A new 78-node cluster will be delivered and installed at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth in support of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope. The MWA is one of the many precursor projects being developed as part of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a joint venture between Australia and South Africa with input from radio astronomers located around the world. Located at Perth's Curtin University, The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is growing to become Australia's pre-eminent supercomputing centre and has frequently been represented on the Top500 supercomputer list. This new system "will provide a dedicated system for astronomers to process in excess of 30 PB — equal to 399 years of high definition video — of MWA telescope data using Pawsey infrastructure". It is not clear at what rate this data will be delivered to the centre.

Source: IT Wire

29 February 2020

HPE to build supercomputer for MWA telescope in Australia

HPE has been selected by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth to deliver a new $2 million compute cluster that will support one of the Square Kilometre Array precursor projects in Australia, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope. he new 78-node cluster will provide a dedicated system for astronomers to process in excess of 30 PB – equal to 399 years of high definition video – of MWA telescope data using Pawsey infrastructure. The new cluster will provide users with enhanced GPU capabilities to power AI, computational work, machine learning workflows and data analytics.

Source: Inside HPC

29 February 2020

Job of the week: Supercomputing Applications Specialist at CSIRO

CSIRO in Australia is seeking a Supercomputing Applications Specialist in our Job of the Week. Working within the Services team, you will work collaboratively with researchers to assist them in exploiting the vast opportunities enabled by the supercomputers operated in the Pawsey Supercomputing centre. Pawsey is a tier-1 high-performance computing facility accelerating scientific discoveries for Australia’s researchers.

Source: Inside HPC

27 February 2020

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre boosts astronomy research with new HPE supercomputer

HPE has been selected by the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth to deliver a new $2 million (AUD) compute cluster that will support one of the Square Kilometre Array precursor projects in Australia, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope. The new 78-node cluster will provide a dedicated system for astronomers to process in excess of 30 PB – equal to 399 years of high definition video – of MWA telescope data using Pawsey infrastructure.

Source: HPC Wire

17 February 2020

Shooting for the stars in a smart WA

Ambitious entrepreneurs and sensible policies could make WA the world’s pre-eminent location for data analytics, remote operations and high-tech industries. Matt Lamont has created a successful business analysing data from deep beneath the sea, but now he’s adding a new focus, the deepest reaches of the universe.

Source: Business News

28 November 2019

Searching for star prints in space and stories

Stars don’t shine forever. Eventually, even the brightest stars run out of fuel and collapse in a massive explosion, called a supernova. We usually know that supernovae have happened in the past because history is full of the stories people tell about them.

Source: Particle

25 November 2019

Dell Technologies to upgrade Pawsey’s cloud with 5x more memory and 25x storage

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Dell Technologies to expand its current cloud system with five times more memory and 25 times more storage to form a new cutting-edge system. The new compute cloud is another piece of the puzzle that will make up the $70m capital refresh project for the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to accelerate Australia’s rate of scientific discovery.

Source: HPC Wire

22 November 2019

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre picks Dell to expand cloud

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has chosen Dell Technologies to supply the needed technology for boosting its cloud infrastructure, with the US firm to help increase memory by a factor of five and storage by a factor of 25. Pawsey said in a statement on Thursday that the new compute cloud was part of the $70 million capital refresh project to improve the rate of scientific discovery. On 14 November, Pawsey invited tenders for a new system to replace existing Magnus and Galaxy supercomputers.

Source: IT Wire

21 November 2019

Pawsey to update cloud as part of centre refresh

Australia's Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has selected Dell Technologies to expand its current cloud system. The expansion will result in five times more memory, and 25 times more storage. According to the centre, the new platform will enable researchers to process and analyse large amounts of data through additional object storage and the Kubernetes container orchestrator, and builds on Pawsey's existing container technology for its supercomputing and cloud systems.

Source: ZDNet

20 November 2019

Pawsey taps Dell in massive cloud refresh

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre’s massive capital refresh project, in which its Magnus and Galaxy supercomputers will be replaced, will also feature a significant expansion of its cloud infrastructure, it revealed on Thursday.

Source: IT News

15 November 2019

Pawsey Opens tender for new supercomputing system

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is calling for tenders for a new supercomputing system to replace its existing machines. The tender is said to be the major offering in a capital refresh project worth $70 million. The upgrade is expected to deliver increased computing power and speed — allowing the centre to keep pace with international advances in supercomputing technology and better support Australian researchers in accelerating scientific discovery, performing high-impact research and remaining globally competitive, according to Pawsey Executive Director Mark Stickells.

Source: Technology Decisions

14 November 2019

Pawsey tenders for $70m project

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced a tender as part of a $70 million new supercomputing system to replace its existing Magnus and Galaxy supercomputers. The centre was established in 2009 as an unincorporated joint venture between CSIRO, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University, Murdoch University and The University of Western Australia.

Source: Business News

14 November 2019

Pawsey begins hunt for news $70 million supercomputer

Replacing Magnus and Galaxy HPCs. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has officially hit the market for a new $70 million supercomputer to replace its two ageing supercomputers, Magnus and Galaxy. Pawsey scored the funding back in April last year to build a “next generation” machine that would “help a world-class facility become a world-leading one,” then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said.

Source: IT News

1 September 2019

Pawsey joints AeRO

The Australasian eResearch Organisations (AeRO) is delighted to announce Pawsey Supercomputer Centre has joined AeRO as an Associate Member. Pawsey enables and supports groundbreaking science to drive innovation across Australia and the world. Their services and expertise in supercomputing, cloud, data-intensive analysis, storage and visualisation, enables research across a wide spread of domains including astronomy,energy and resources, engineering, bioinformatics and health science. The Centre will also underpin the operations of the Square Kilometre Array project, an international effort to build the world’s largest telescope.

Source: Australasian eResearch Organisations

11 July 2019

NERSC Computer Scientist wins First Corones Award

Today the Krell Institute announced that Rebecca Hartman-Baker, a computer scientist at the Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), is the inaugural recipient of the James Corones Award in Leadership, Community Building and Communication.

Source: Inside HPC

10 January 2019

GPU Hackathon returns to WA

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is hosting a five-day ‘GPU hackathon’ to help computer scientists port applications to general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs). While GPUs offer high memory bandwidth and performance, those wanting to utilise them face significant difficulty in programming them, the Perth supercomputing centre said. The hackathon, which will take place at CORE Innovation Hub

Source: Computerworld

1 September 2018

Video: DDN Burst Buffer

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference, Justin Glen and Daniel Richards from DDN present: DDN Burst Buffer. “Burst Buffer was originally created to checkpoint-restart applications and has evolved to help accelerate applications & file systems and make HPC clusters more predictable. This presentation explores regional use cases, recommendations on burst buffer

Source: Inside HPC

26 June 2018

Quantum Leap in Computer Simulation

Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date, a key step in becoming quantum-ready If a quantum computer were a racing car it wouldn’t so much speed past a Formula One, it would simply take a private shortcut to appear at the finishing line just after the starting gun fires. And if

Source: Pursuit - University of Melbourne

7 June 2018

Pawsey teams with PRACE to promote Supercomputing

Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and PRACE have 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 representative organisations create a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure,

Source: Inside HPC

6 June 2018

Pawsey HPC centre to collaborate with European group PRACE

The Australian Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has signed an agreement with the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) to pool resources and information that will help research groups globally. The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote research and development in computational science and engineering, focusing on the exchange of information in three

Source: Tech Central

5 June 2018

Pawsey to collaborate with Europe’s supercomputing infrastructure group PRACE

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has inked an agreement with the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) to pool resources and information that will help research groups globally. The two organisations signed a Memorandum of Understanding to promote research and development in computational science and engineering, focusing on the exchange of information in three areas; training,

Source: CIO

4 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), yesterday 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.

Source: HPC Wire

23 May 2018

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre appoints new Executive Director

UWA’s Mark Stickells joins HPC facility which has just received a $70 million government funding boost. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has appointed Mark Stickells as its new executive director. The position became vacant in November last year after a leadership shake-up at the high-performance computing facility saw Neil Stringfellow leave the role.

Source: CIO

16 May 2018

Pawsey trials NVIDIA GPUs for Nimbus cloud

Kicks off early adopter program. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre will offer graphical processing unit (GPU) compute nodes for researchers on its Nimbus cloud and is calling for trial users. A total of twelve NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs with 16 gigabytes of memory each will be installed in six HPE Apollo SX40 server nodes that are to be added to the

Source: IT News

16 May 2018

Pawsey gets new GPU nodes to bolster AI capability

A year after launching Nimbus, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has announced the cloud service’s expansion. Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced its cloud service Nimbus has received a processing boost in the name of artificial intelligence. Currently, Nimbus consists of AMD Opteron Central Processing Units (CPUs), making up 3,000 cores and 288

Source: ZD Net

16 May 2018

Pawsey Adds NVIDIA GPUs to Its Free HPC Cloud Service

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is expanding its Nimbus cloud service with NVIDIA V100 GPU-powered servers in order to provide additional capabilities for researchers. The existing Nimbus infrastructure is relatively modest as HPC cloud setups go, consisting of 3,000 CPU cores, apparently based on the now-ancient AMD Opteron processors. (Why such old CPUs were used in

Source: Top 500

9 May 2018

Budget flags $2.4 billion in tech spending, ICT projects

The Federal Government has announced a swathe of spending on IT and technology infrastructure, as well as tax cuts for small businesses and tightened regulation of offshore taxation. Handed down by treasurer Scott Morrison on the evening of Tuesday, 8 May the budget outlined the government’s plan, among others, to spend $2.4 billion on Australia’s

Source: CRN

9 May 2018

Budget boost: Health tech windfall in federal budget but critics say immediate patient needs are left begging

Treasurer Scott Morrison has delivered a federal budget described as good for science, with investments in genomics, medical research, digital health and critical IT infrastructure placing technology at the centre of Australia’s economic ambitions. Biomedtech innovators were also exempted from changes to the R&D tax incentive, in news that came as a relief to industry

Source: Healthcare IT News

9 May 2018

Govt earmarks $2.4bn for tech infrastructure

The government has unveiled plans to invest more than $2.4 billion into “Australia’s public technology infrastructure”. Treasurer Scott Morrison said that the $2.4 billion investment would be put towards “supercomputers, world class satellite imagery, more accurate GPS across Australia, upgrading the Bureau of Meteorology’s technology platform, a national space agency and leading research in artificial intelligence”.

Source: IT News

8 May 2018

Budget 2018: Funding boost for AI and machine learning projects

The government is hoping to boost Australia’s artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning capabilities with $29.9 million in funding over four years for projects that make use of the technologies. The bulk of that funding will be delivered through the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science’s Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program, which are focused on

Source: CIO

8 May 2018

Supercomputing In Australia Scores A $140 Million Upgrade

Perth’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, and ANU’s National Computational Infrastructure facility have just scored $140 million in the 2018 Federal Budget, announced tonight. The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre helps advance medical research, nanotechnology, mining, construction and urban planning with high-speed calculations. It supports research to maximise combustion in supersonic engines and model the physics of extreme waves

Source: Gizmodo

8 May 2018

Tepid reaction to tech spending

Nicola Hazell: Will need to look deeper into the budget papers for inspiration As the Treasurer Scott Morrison delivered the final flourishes on his election budget speech last night, the pragmatic negativity among delegates at InnovationAus.com’s third Budget Insider event was setting in. That is, save for a few exceptional points of light penetrating the

Source: Innovation Aus

2 May 2018

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre Receives $70M for New HPC Gear

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced that the Australian government is investing $70 million in the center to replace its aging supercomputers. “This is a reflection of the government’s understanding of the value that the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre delivers to the Australian scientific landscape by accelerating innovation and increasing opportunities for engagement between Australian researchers and

Source: Top 500

30 April 2018

Feds to pump $70M into Perth’s supercomputers

Pawsey’s Magnus and Galaxy machines reaching end of life. The federal government will shell out $70 million to replace tech infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth. The money is being used to roll out a replacement for Pawsey’s supercomputers Magnus and Galaxy as both systems at close to the end of their operational

Source: CIO

30 April 2018

Australia government earmarks A$70m to refresh supercomputers

The investment will fund replacements for two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in an effort to bolster Australia’s research capabilities The Australian government has earmarked A$70m to refresh the high-performance computing (HPC) systems at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, western Australia, in a bid to beef up the country’s science and innovation chops.

Source: Computer Weekly

30 April 2018

Pawsey gets $70 million to replace ageing supercomputers

Magnus and Galaxy are fast approaching end-of-life Pawsey Supercomputing Centre will receive $70 million in government funding to replace its ageing supercomputers which are fast approaching end-of-life. The centre will procure a replacement for its flagship system Magnus, a Cray XC40, as well as its Cray XC30 called Galaxy. Both are reaching the end of their

Source: Computerworld

28 April 2018

Pawsey Centre receives $70 Million for Supercomputing Down Under April 28

Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced it has received $70 million in funding for a new supercomputing infrastructure. The new machines will replace Magnus, a Cray XC40 considered to be one of the most advanced supercomputers in the southern hemisphere, and Galaxy, a real-time system dedicated to Square Kilometre Array. Today’s announcement, together with last

Source: Inside HPC

28 April 2018

Pawsey lands $70m for new supercomputer

Means both Aussie research HPCs now have funding. The federal government has committed $70 million to the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre to fund a “next generation” machine. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said in a statement that the new funding “will help a world-class facility become a world-leading one.” The funding is to be used to “secure

Source: IT News

28 April 2018

Australia Pumps Another $70 Million Into Tier-1 Supercomputing

The Australian government has committed $70 million in funding for a next-generation number cruncher at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, located in Perth, Western Australia. The investment will enable the tier-1 center to replace its flagship supercomputer, Magnus, as well as the real-time supercomputer, Galaxy — both of which are nearing end-of-life. Magnus is a 1.1-petaflops

Source: HPC Wire

16 April 2018

International GPU Hackathon Officially Launched in Perth

April 16, 2018 — The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), NVIDIA Corporation and Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre inaugurated the first Australian Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) hackathon in Perth. During the launch, Pawsey representatives, participants and mentors were joined by U.S. Consul General, Perth, Rachel Cooke and other representatives from the U.S.

Source: HPC Wire

12 April 2018

Australian and Singaporean supercomputers pool power for APAC research platform

Australia’s two biggest supercomputing facilities are joining forces with Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) to enable researchers to tap their combined capabilities. National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), based at the Australian National University, and Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Kensington near Perth are working with the NSCC to establish an ‘Asia Pacific Research Platform’ (APRP) for scientists

Source: Computerworld

5 April 2018

Pawsey Enters Its First International Agreement With Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre

April 5, 2018 — The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore, and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the fields of supercomputing, networking, data analytics, scientific software applications and visualisation. Pawsey and NSCC have worked together to sign an MOU that will underpin the beginning of the two Centres’

Source: HPC Wire

5 April 2018

Pawsey Supercomputing Centre teams with NSCC Singapore to Accelerate Science

The National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) Singapore and the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to collaborate in the fields of supercomputing, networking, data analytics, scientific software applications and visualization. With our national petascale HPC platform, NSCC’s collaboration with international supercomputing centres such as the Pawsey, will benefit and bring together people

Source: Inside HPC

5 April 2018

Australia-Singapore supercomputing agreement signed

The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has signed its first international agreement with Singapore’s National Supercomputing Centre. Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the National Supercomputing Centre (NSCC) of Singapore that will see both facilities work together on supercomputing, networking, data analytics, scientific software applications, and visualisation. According

Source: ZD Net

22 March 2018

How Dr Mal Bryce Helped Science in WA

Dr Mal Bryce AO passed away on 3 March, aged 74. We remember his passion for science and technology, and the significant projects he implemented that have shaped the science landscape in WA. WA science and technology would not be where it is today without the efforts of Dr Mal Bryce AO, a champion of

Source: Particle

8 February 2018

Deluge of astronomical data will soon hit South Africa

The expansion of a telescope network creates a thirst for more data-handling expertise and infrastructure. Data scientists in South Africa are readying themselves for a flood of information that is due to crash over them when the country’s biggest radio telescope doubles the scale of its operations in March. A terabyte-an-hour data deluge, which would

Source: Nature

19 December 2017

Australia to replace Raijin in AU$70m supercomputer upgrade

As the nation’s most powerful HPC system nears the end of its life. The Australian government’s will invest AU$70 million (US$53.6m) to replace the country’s highest performance research supercomputer, Raijin. The National Computer Infrastructure (NCI) at the Australian National University (ANU) said that it hopes the new high performance computing (HPC) system will be ranked in

Source: DCD

28 November 2017

The Most Detailed Radio Image of the Small Magellanic Cloud

Astronomers at The Australian National University (ANU) have created the most detailed radio image of nearby dwarf galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, revealing secrets of how it formed and how it is likely to evolve. This image was taken by CSIRO’s powerful new radio telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP), and its innovative

Source: SpaceRef

15 November 2017

Cray Wins Four HPCwire Awards

SEATTLE and DENVER, Nov. 15, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — At the 2017 Supercomputing Conference in Denver, Colorado, global supercomputer leader Cray Inc. (Nasdaq:CRAY) today announced the Company won four awards from the editors and readers of HPCwire, as part of the publication’s 2017 Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Awards. This marks the 14th consecutive year Cray

Source: GlobeNewswire

14 November 2017

Using Maths to Assess Blocked Arteries

Combining laser imaging with supercomputing, researchers are modelling the severity of artery blockages without physically probing the blood flow, and may be able to identify future danger areas In the near future, heart specialists will be using virtual devices based on mathematics and supercomputing to predict artery blockages before they happen. Cardiologists already have an

Source: Pursuit - University of Melbourne

13 November 2017

HPC Storage Leadership with New Solutions and Next Generation Monitoring Tools

DENVER and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 13, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — SC17 (Booth #1325) – DataDirect Networks (DDN®) today announced new high-performance computing (HPC) storage solutions and capabilities, which it will feature this week at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC17) in Denver, Colorado. The new solutions include an entry-level burst buffer appliance

Source: PR Newsire

9 November 2017

DDN Powers Radio Astronomy at Pawsey Centre in Australia

Today DDN announced that Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has deployed a pair of DDN GRIDScaler parallel file system appliances to help deliver the first colored panoramic view of the universe. The GRIDScaler solution comprises 5PBs of storage as well as an additional 2PBs of DDN capacity to support diverse research, simulations and visualizations in

Source: Inside HPC

9 November 2017

Supercomputing centre shake-up sees executive director vacate role

Pawsey board announces change of focus for role, commences search for replacement The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre has confirmed it is searching for a new executive director, with current chief Neil Stringfellow vacating the role. The announcement was made to staff earlier this week at the high-performance computing facility in Kensington near Perth. Stringfellow has served four

Source: Computerworld

30 October 2017

Pawsey Expands Zeus to Meet Researchers’ Needs

Moving from a system designed for pre- and post- processing workloads, Zeus will become Pawsey’s new mid-range cluster in December 2017. The new cluster will target key science communities such as Bioinformatics, who have large compute requirements but aren’t ready to use a supercomputer such as Pawsey’s flagship system, Magnus. The addition of an extra

Source: HPC Wire

24 October 2017

Inside Australia’s supercomputing journey

The country’s Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation has upgraded its high performance computing infrastructure to keep pace with global research At Australia’s national research facility in Canberra, the top minds from across the sprawling country gather to solve some of the world’s most pressing issues. From better understanding extreme weather conditions to helping the visually

Source: Computer Weekly

1 August 2017

These radio telescopes see almost to the beginning of time

Two Australian radio telescopes have a humble goal: uncovering the universe’s secrets. There are few places in the world that can accommodate a radio telescope. It has what seem to be conflicting needs. The area has to be far enough from human habitation to avoid radio interference, yet close enough that it can be supported

Source: Cnet

18 July 2017

Dell EMC wraps up $4M CSIRO supercomputer build

New system to help expand CSIRO’s capability in deep learning Dell EMC has been revealed as the technology partner tasked with building the Australian national science agency’s new $4 million supercomputer system, which went live in early July. The tech company announced on 18 July it had worked with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research

Source: ARN

18 January 2017

Construction of powerful ASKAP telescope on ‘home stretch’

Construction of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) telescope is on the “home straight” with the project expected be fully operational within 12 months. Located in the heart of the Murchison, about 350 kilometres northeast of Geraldton, the telescope is made up of 36 identical 12-metre wide dish antennas, with a third of them

Source: ABC News

14 November 2016

CSIRO goes to market for $4m petaflop supercomputer

To replace 472.5 gigaflop BRAGG cluster. The CSIRO is on the hunt for a $4 million 1 petaflop supercomputer to replace its existing BRAGG high performance compute cluster. The new system, which is scheduled to go live by May 30 next year, will be located at the CSIRO data centre in Canberra and operated by the agency’s

Source: IT News

15 September 2016

CSIRO seeks $1.5 million supercomputer upgrade

The search is on for supercomputer implementation partners Australia’s national scientific research agency, the CSIRO, is searching for a “suitably qualified and experienced” technology service provider to supply, install, and maintain a new Advanced Technology Cluster (ATC) at its Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia. The CSIRO is after an entirely new technology system that

Source: ARN

10 August 2016

Cisco centre builds linkages

A recently opened research and innovation centre at Curtin University is rapidly building interaction between big corporates, small businesses, academia and government. The Cisco Internet of Everything Innovation Centre opened its doors in January after gaining backing from global technology company Cisco Systems, Woodside Petroleum, and Curtin. The three partners have collectively committed $30 million

Source: Business News WA

21 July 2016

Govt flags IT infrastructure investment for research

Compute, network and big data spend on the agenda. The federal government has flagged possible upgrades to supercomputing, network and big data infrastructure to meet Australia’s research priorities over the next decade. An issues paper [PDF] released yesterday seeks input on the research domains Australia should prioritise. This will then determine what kinds of research infrastructure

Source: IT News