The door to the petascale era is being opened for critical Australian research in climate change, the enviroment and a host of other areas. This transformational change comes with ANU signing an agreement with Fujitsu to build and install a 1.2 Petaflop supercomputer-the most powerful computer in

NCI is pleased to announce that the Australian National University (ANU) and the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research executed a contract for Super Science / EIF Climate HPC Project on Tuesday, 12 April 2010. This project, initiated within the Super Science (Marine and Climate)

The new NCI National Facility peak system, vayu, launched in November 2009 by Senator the Hon. Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, passed its final acceptance tests early in April 2010, and a full service to research users commenced on 6 April 2009. Vayu, a Oracle (Sun

New supercomputer puts Australia on Par Australia's most powerful supercomputer facility with the capacity to boost Australia's computational research capability into world ranking has been launched by the Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research, Senator the Hon Kim Carr at The

2009Q4 Time Allocations The new Sun Constellation cluster, vayu, has come through the first two weeks of production use with flying colours so we will start charging for use on October 1st, coinciding with the installation of 2009Q4 grants. (Note that usage on vayu in 2009Q3 will be accounted "after

Notice of the start of vayu service The NCI NF has now accepted the first stage of the new Sun service and is in a position to transition users of the existing AC over to the new service. Since the AC compute service will end around Sept 22, it is in your interests to make this transition promptly

New National Facility peak system to be installed at the ANU Dear Research Users of the NCI National Facility Systems, We are pleased to announce the new National Facility peak system that will be installed at the ANU later this year. As you may be aware, there has been a joint acquisition process

Call for Expressions of Interest – Closing Date 20 August 2008 On 21 July 2008 the following email was send to Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Research): Dear Deputy Vice-Chancellors (Research) I am writing with regard to the Specialised Facilities program of National Computational Infrastructure (NCI)

Next Generation National Facility The following email was circulated on July 19, 2008 to users of National Facility systems to inform them of imminent upgrades planned for the capability systems. Dear National Facility User As a member of the user community of the National Facility, you will be