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.”
HPE to Build Supercomputer for MWA Telescope in Australia
February 29, 2020 by
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. “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. The new cluster will provide users with enhanced GPU capabilities to power AI, computational work, machine learning workflows and data analytics.”
Gadi – Australia’s Newest Supercomputer
September 17, 2019 by
Allan Williams from NCI gave this talk at the Perth HPC Conference. “With 3,200 nodes, Gadi will power some of Australia’s most crucial research, seeking to solve some of the most complex and pressing challenges facing the world currently. Researchers from organizations including the CSIRO, Geosciences Australia, and the Bureau of Meteorology will benefit from faster speeds and higher capacity compared to the existing supercomputer.”
Job of the Week: Supercomputing Applications Specialist at CSIRO
August 24, 2019 by
Pawsey’s Supercomputing Team is responsible for providing the infrastructure to fulfill the needs of the Australian research community and to engage with that community to make best use of the infrastructure. You will be part of this highly skilled team of professional specialists and developers, will work collaboratively with researchers to assist them in exploiting the vast opportunities afforded by the infrastructure operated in the Pawsey centre.
Mark Stickells appointed Director of Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
May 23, 2018 by
Today the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre announced the appointment of Mark Stickells as the new Director of the Centre. “Mark’s experience with government, industry, research and technology will bring synergy to Pawsey, and will help him to lead this Centre into a new era,” said John Langoulant AO, Chair of the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre. “After Pawsey’s recent funding announcement, Mark will play a key role in shaping the future of Australia’s High-Performance Computing and in bringing a new range of users to the facility from across industry sectors.”
Job of the Week: HPC System Administrator at Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
September 9, 2017 by
The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia is seeking an HPC System Administrator in our Job of the Week. “Pawsey’s Supercomputing Team is responsible for configuring the infrastructure to fulfil the needs of the Australian research community and to engage with that community to make best use of the infrastructure. The incumbent, as part of this highly skilled team of professional specialists and system administrators, will ensure that Pawsey’s high performance computing resources and related services meet its service expectations.”
Dell Builds Bracewell Supercomputer for Bionic Vision Research at CSIRO in Australia
July 18, 2017 by
Today CSIRO, Australia’s top science agency, announced deployment of a new Dell EMC supercomputer, kicking off a new generation of research in artificial intelligence. “This new system will provide greater scale and processing power we need to build our computer vision systems by optimization of processing over broader scenarios, represented by much larger sets of images, to help train the software to understand and represent the world. We’ll be able to take our computer vision research to the next level, solving problems through leveraging large scale image data that most labs around the world aren’t able to.” Assoc. Professor Barnes said.
CSIRO Deploys NVIDIA DGX-1 Deep Learning Supercomputers Down Under
October 4, 2016 by
Today NVIDIA announced APAC’s first deployment of NVIDIA DGX-1 deep learning supercomputers CSIRO in Australia. “There is a growing interest from research groups to adopt machine learning techniques to support their projects,” said Angus Macoustra, executive manager for Scientific Computing at CSIRO. “CSIRO research projects are already using the DGX-1 systems, and in time, it is expected that machine learning will have applicability across all our areas of research and be used by hundreds of researchers.”
NCI in Australia Receives $14 Million Investment
August 1, 2016 by
The National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), Australia’s high-performance supercomputer, cloud and data repository, has received a $7M boost from the Australian Government, matched by the NCI Collaborating partners. “The NCI predicts that the $14M investment will provide a 30 per cent increase in NCI’s computational capability. In addition, it will allow the NCI to continue to provide a robust service for nationally significant research data across a range of disciplines, including the earth and environmental sciences, medical research, astronomy and materials science.”
Video: A Journey to a Holistic Framework for Data-intensive Workflows at CSIRO
May 4, 2016 by
In this video from the 2016 MSST Conference, Ian Corner from CSIRO in Australia presents: A Journey to a Holistic Framework for Data-intensive Workflows. “At CSIRO, we are Australia’s national science organization and one of the largest and most diverse scientific research organizations in the world. Our research focuses on the biggest challenges facing the nation. We also manage national research infrastructure and collections.”
