The Australian Academy of Science welcomes the Federal Government’s announcement to invest $70 million to upgrade two supercomputers at the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.
Secretary for Science Policy at the Academy, Professor David Day, said the new funding for the high performance computing facility will allow important research to continue in high priority areas of Australian science, including medical research, astronomy, agricultural science and geoscience.
“Increasingly, scientific research is generating large volumes of data, such as that coming from the Australian SKA Pathfinder—this requires sophisticated processing and analysis so researchers can derive most benefit from their work,” Professor Day said.
“Supercomputers, including this facility, are a critical piece of Australia’s economic, social and scientific infrastructure.
“The funding commitment provides more certainty for the future of Australia’s supercomputing capability, following the funding of the Pawsey’s sister facility, the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), in December last year.”
Media contact: Dan Wheelahan – dan.wheelahan@science.org.au – ph: 0435 930 465.
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