Feds to pump $70M into Perth’s supercomputers
The federal government will shell out $70 million to replace tech infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth.
The federal government will shell out $70 million to replace tech infrastructure at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth.
The $80 million Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Western Australia has completed the final upgrade of its ‘Magnus’ machine, which provides processing power in excess of a petaflop.
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) and Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) projects underway in Western Australia to map the universe are forecast to generate data amounts in the region of eight petabytes each year.
CSIRO Staff Association president Dr Michael Borgas described the scientific agency’s decision to cut jobs within its wireless and network technology program as “baffling” and has urged management to rethink its position.