Serge Bogaerts & Ugo Varetto signing the PRACE-Pawsey Mou at EHPCSW2018 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Australia’s Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and PRACE have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the use of supercomputers to the progress of scientific and technological outcomes, and to stimulate the industry sector both in Australia and Europe.
PRACE is an international non-profit association, with 25 member countries. Its representative organisations create a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, providing access to computing and data management resources and services for large-scale scientific and engineering applications at the highest performance level for scientists and researchers from academia and industry in Europe.
PRACE and Pawsey share the complexity and international nature of the science areas that each organization supports, the need to provide services to researchers who are spread across different time zones and the requirement of on-demand access to compute power for a scientific instrument.
The collaboration seeks to promote research and development in the field of Computational Science and Engineering, targeting exchange of information in three areas; training, industrial usage of High-Performance Computing, and the link between HPC and scientific instruments. The partnership also commits to identify opportunities to improve the operational efficiency of each of the parties, and to provide enhanced support for globally distributed research teams.
The signing ceremony took place during the European HPC Summit Week 2018 in Ljubljana; signed by Ugo Varetto, Pawsey’s Acting Executive Director, and Serge Bogaerts, PRACE Managing Director.
Ugo Varetto said the agreement is another step toward creating alliances making Pawsey a world-leading, internationally recognised supercomputing facility.
“We are pleased to be the first Centre outside of Europe to collaborate with PRACE at this level, said Ugo.
Pawsey’s connection with the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope, one of the great scientific instruments of our time, is an incredible challenge in which to be involved. This is the type of project that represents an opportunity to learn and to contribute to.” Ugo continued “With this MoU, Pawsey is seizing another opportunity to share experiences and also learn from our peers.”
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