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• Australia’s fastest ever supercomputer to go live in November

  ​Australia’s fastest supercomputer is about to get 10-times more powerful, thanks to a multi-million dollar upgrade to be delivered by Fujitsu Australia.

• Dell EMC rolls out $2.3M supercomputer upgrade for University of Sydney

  ​Dell EMC has taken the wrappers off the $2.3 million supercomputer upgrade it completed with the help of NTT Data for the University of Sydney.

• 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.

• NCI gets $70m to replace Raijin and return to world top 25

  ​The National Computational Infrastructure​ (NCI) based at The Australian National University will receive a $70 million funding boost to replace its ageing supercomputer, Raijin.

• Swinburne University to deploy $4M supercomputer

  Swinburne University of Technology has paid $4 million for a supercomputer to support its groundbreaking research into astrophysics and gravitational waves.

• CSIRO doubles compute power with $4m HPC

  ​CSIRO has begun using its new $4m Dell EMC supercomputer, which will soon help to bring vision to the blind through the use of multi-layered neural networks.

• ​Deloitte, Cray launch supercomputer-driven threat analytics service

  Deloitte Advisory Cyber Risk Services and Cray have launched what they claim to be the first commercially available supercomputing threat analytics service.

• BoM to rollout $77M supercomputer and storage

  The Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) will spend $77 million on a Cray supercomputer and storage system it claims will deliver more accurate weather forecasts and warnings across the country.
  

• Woodside to tap into IBM’s Watson

  Oil and gas company, Woodside has joined a growing list of Australian organisations tapping into the IBM Watson supercomputer.
  

• Distributed computing project enables UNSW's DNA research

  The University of New South Wales (UNSW) is using donated computing power to make 20 quadrillion comparisons of 200 million DNA proteins.

• Pawsey rigs up petascale supercomputer

  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.
  

• University of Queensland to spend $2.4M on ‘Flashlite’

  The University of Queensland will spend up to $2.4 million on its latest high performance computer for intensive data crunching across multiple research areas, including astrophysics, climate change, geonomics, and computational chemistry.
  

• Australia’s largest supercomputer turns one

  Raijin, the Southern Hemisphere’s most powerful supercomputer, on Thursday celebrated its first birthday. It has been in production since mid-June last year.
  

• BoM tenders for supercomputer

  The Bureau of Meteorology has released a request for tender for the supply and support of a supercomputer.

• ANU launches Australia's largest supercomputer

  A $26 million supercomputer capable of completing 170,000 calculations for every human on the Earth every second was unveiled on Wednesday at the Australian National University (ANU).