Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is proud to announce that Perth, Western Australia, has been selected to host the International High-Performance Computing Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences (IHPCSS). This is the first time the summer school will take place in the Southern Hemisphere since its inception in 2010. The International HPC Summer School
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
Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is supporting a pioneering quantum education and research program to enable students access to one of the first educational quantum computers in Australia. Based at the University of Western Australia (UWA), the new program will enable researchers and students to upskill in the emerging area of quantum computing and engage with
We are pleased to announce a new partnership between 10 Australian research institutions to train instructors in The Carpentries digital research skills. The partnership was announced at the ARDC Digital Research Skills Summit, part of the eResearch Australasia conference. The partnership is one of the largest in the world, and gives research institutions of all sizes
Twenty-three students have joined the annual Pawsey Summer Internship program, which began in December, 2020. Annually, this 10-week intensive internship program selects students to delve deeper into their scientific areas through high-performance computing. Students are supervised by project leads on their respective projects, which range from geophysical use of HPC, atomic and molecular photon collisions
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre is pleased to announce that the Pawsey Summer internship: Call for students is NOW OPEN! The 2020/21 Pawsey Summer Internship Program is offering a paid internship during the Australian summer period. In step with Pawsey’s $70 million infrastructure refresh, the 2020/2021 Pawsey Summer Internship Program has been refreshed! Over the next 3
The use of containers has become an attractive framework for several areas of research supported by Pawsey (including bioinformatics and machine learning, among others). Pawsey supports the usage of OpenFOAM containers. You can read more in the Pawsey documentation, The most recent supported versions of OpenFOAM. Invitation for Online Training: Training dates will be advised soon.
Opportunities to work with Kubernetes container orchestration, building on Pawsey’s existing container technology for its HPC systems, are some of the features offered by the new refreshed Nimbus cloud, available at Pawsey from April 1st. The new high-throughput computing infrastructure represents a significant improvement from the original Nimbus Cloud, in CPU, memory and storage, providing
February saw the Pawsey Summer Internship program come to an end with 12 students presenting posters on their research, experiences and learnings at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. Every year, the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre runs an intensive 10-week internship program. In November 2019, a group of students were selected to join the program to delve deeper into
Pawsey Supercomputing Centre attended Perth ResBaz 2019, hosting three training sessions at this ‘un-conference’ festival of learning, hosted by Curtin University. This year, Pawsey had four representatives attend. Anne Backhaus, Education and Training Manager, Luke Edwards, Data Specialist, and Supercomputing Applications Specialists Brian Skjerven and Marco De La Pierre, all delivered successful training sessions on