Aug. 11, 2022 — Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has purchased a high performance computing system from HPE in a three-year deal for US$35 million. The new system, intended to improve the resilience of Australia’s weather forecasting supercomputing capability, will augment a Cray XC50 supercomputer installed at the BOM in 2016, according to a story in […]
Upgrade for Supercomputer at Swinburne University of Technology
February 2, 2022 by
Feb. 1, 2022 — One of Australia’s most powerful supercomputers is getting a major upgrade, with Swinburne University of Technology designing and installing a new space-focused machine with the support of $5.2 million in funding from the Victorian Government’s Higher Education State Investment Fund. The new facility will be the largest scale supercomputer readily available […]
HPE to build Australia’s No. 1 Supercomputer at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
October 19, 2020 by
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 […]
NCMAS 2021 Call for Australia Supercomputer Access Open Until Oct. 26
September 23, 2020 by
The call for time on Australia’s largest supercomputers opens today and will remain open until 26 October 2020. The National Computational Merit Allocation Scheme (NCMAS) is the allocation scheme for access to Australian national supercomputing facilities for meritorious research. The NCMAS provides access, based on research and computational merit, for researchers at Australian universities and […]
