Australian researchers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, Curtin University, and the SKA Observatory have developed BLINK (Breakthrough Low-latency Imaging with Next-generation Kernels), a powerful software pipeline designed to accelerate the search for enigmatic signals from space called fast radio bursts (FRBs) using the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope on Wajarri Yamaji Country in
Perth, WA – June 2025 Originally established as iVEC — the Interactive Virtual Environments Centre — the initiative brought together founding partners CSIRO, The University of Western Australia, Curtin University, and Central TAFE, with seed funding of $1 million from the Western Australian Government, matched by Commonwealth investment. iVEC established its first supercomputer, Carlin, in
Originally written and published by the University of Melbourne here University of Melbourne researchers are working on the world’s first exascale supercomputer to improve the fuel efficiency and performance of some of the world’s most sophisticated jet engines. Working for several years now with the global leader in turbine manufacturing, General Electric (GE) Aerospace, the team has
A team led by Associate Professor Giuseppe Barca from the University of Melbourne has been awarded the 2024 Gordon Bell Prize, the highest international honour in high-performance computing, for their pioneering work enabling quantum-accurate simulations at unprecedented scale. The accolade was announced at SC24, the world’s premier supercomputing conference, held this year in Atlanta, Georgia.
A state-of-the-art regional climate modelling project will deliver more detailed and reliable projections for local areas across Western Australia, which will be used to inform planning for infrastructure and climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture and conservation. “Global climate models help us to simulate very large-scale weather patterns across the globe, but they are not suitable
The Pawsey Summer Internship Program has recently wrapped up, marking yet another successful year for the initiative. The program, which is open to third year through masters and PhD students, is designed to develop skills in computational science and research projects through immersion in the field. It is an opportunity for emerging talent in
Supercomputing Merit Allocation Schemes for 2023 allocation round are now open. The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is Australia’s premiere grant scheme for access to high-performance computing (HPC) resources. The two Tier-1 HPC facilities in Australia, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) and the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, together offer hundreds of millions of hours
Australia’s newest supercomputer, Setonix, has produced a highly detailed image of a supernova remnant immediately after the computing system’s first stage was made available to researchers. Data used to create the image was collected with CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope, which is owned and operated by Australia’s national science agency, on Wajarri Yamatji Country in Western
The first phase of the new Setonix supercomputer is now available, creating a faster, user-friendly interface to accelerate discoveries. Setonix Phase 1 is delivering double the compute power of its predecessor, Magnus, via 3rd generation AMD EPYC CPUs. Setonix gives Pawsey’s researchers access to greater performance, enhanced memory bandwidth, and connectivity to the 10x faster
Understanding flow-induced processes at a molecular level is a weighty challenge that could not be tackled without the use of supercomputing. But this materials science research will impact many industrial applications in lubrication of gears, engine bearings and magnetic hard drives. It is just one of the projects supported by the PaCER program, which helps researchers optimise their algorithms, codes and workflows for next-generation supercomputers such as Setonix. PaCER – Pawsey Centre for Extreme Scale Readiness – is