$80M High Performance Computing Centre for Perth

As part of its "Super Science Initiative" announced in May's budget, the Commonwealth Government allocated $80 million to iVEC to establish a petascale supercomputing facility. A specific purpose building adjacent to the Australian Resources Research Centre at the WA Technology Park will be designed and constructed to house the high performance computing system. The supercomputer itself will be designed and assembled over the next four years.

On the 27th August 2009, Senator Carr launched the centre and announced that it will be named The Pawsey High Performance Computing Centre for SKA Science after Dr Joseph Lade Pawsey (1908-1962), the father of radio-astronomy in Australia and one of the great pioneers in this field internationally. In addition to making a significant contribution to SKA science, the centre will be a world class hub for high performance computing that will support high end research in many disciplines.

Further information:

• http://minister.innovation.gov.au/Carr/Pages/$80MPERTHSUPERCOMPUTINGCENTRETOBOOSTSKABID.aspx
  
• http://www.ivec.org/ForumAug09/