ANNUAL REVIEW 2024
If you have any feedback about our new interactive report, or if you or your organisation would like support from Pawsey to help you reach new frontiers, get in touch!
NEW FRONTIERS
General / Administration
P +61 8 6436 8830
F +61 8 6436 8555
Pawsey Supercomputing
Research Centre
1 Bryce Avenue
Kensington WA 6151
Australia
Enquiries
Media Enquiries
P +61 8 6436 8920
pr@pawsey.org.au
Website by Purple. Artwork by Samara Ainge.
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is supported by the Australian Government through a $70 million grant made under the Industry Research and Development Act and administered by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Pawsey is also supported by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) through the Department of Education. The Centre would also like to acknowledge the support provided by the Western Australian Government and its Partner organisations.
We are grateful for the support of our core partners.
// Going beyond our limits
Powerful
Pawsey can influence both Australia's quantum strategy and our investment in artificial intelligence. We want to continue to deliver high-impact science, in areas like climate modelling, in digital twinning, and biomedical research.
But we are not standing
still. We are seeking continued investment to sustain our position as
a globally competitive supercomputing centre.
Tim Shanahan
Chairman
The role of our HPC Quantum initiative is to make emerging technologies accessible to researchers, helping them accelerate their scientific work with an eye to building a quantum-ready workforce.
The training linked to quantum is also critical in preparing the research community for the future when this emerging branch of computing becomes mainstream.
Sustainability remains vital to Pawsey – we have broken new ground in energy sustainability while training researchers to use systems efficiently, improving their code to help them accelerate science while reducing emissions.
Researchers porting complex code used in ion-atom collision physics to run on powerful GPUs is one such example – this complex action represents a major leap forward in research, with simulations able to be run 68 times more efficiently and 77 times faster.
We also continue to play an important role in advocating for investment in the skills and software development platforms needed for Australian research.
Pawsey will play a crucial role in aiding Australia's national research communities, as well as supporting the SKA project, ensuring its continued growth and operational success.
These lessons have built resilience and the groundwork for the future, as we start planning for the next phase of infrastructure investment to support advanced computational science.
Pawsey is a platform for encouraging the adoption of emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing to push the boundaries of research.
Pawsey is meeting the needs of Australian science at a scale not previously possible.
Thanks to significant investment in our high-performance computing and data storage, we have world-leading infrastructure that has been co-designed with many in our community, which we continue to tune for optimal performance.
Creating a platform today for the science of tomorrow comes with challenges — but we have learned to adapt as we go, evolving both code and systems so that our infrastructure can scale to meet demand.
It's been a capstone year
for Pawsey.
Our work is underpinned by a team who truly believe in the mission of what we were established to do, and the communities that we serve.
We continue to provide world-class infrastructure and services to Australia’s research community, as we have over the last decade, but we also deliver benefit
by providing a considerable amount of the national compute resource.
Mark Stickells
CEO
Explore our other frontiers
// Going beyond our limits
Powerful
Website by Purple. Artwork by Samara Ainge.
If you have any feedback about our new interactive report, or if you or your organisation would like support from Pawsey to help you reach new frontiers, get in touch!
NEW FRONTIERS
General / Administration
P +61 8 6436 8830
F +61 8 6436 8555
Pawsey Supercomputing
Research Centre
1 Bryce Avenue
Kensington WA 6151
Australia
Enquiries
Media Enquiries
P +61 8 6436 8920
pr@pawsey.org.au
The Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre is supported by the Australian Government through a $70 million grant made under the Industry Research and Development Act and administered by the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science. Pawsey is also supported by the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) through the Department of Education. The Centre would also like to acknowledge the support provided by the Western Australian Government and its Partner organisations.
We are grateful for the support of our core partners.
Explore our other frontiers
The role of our HPC Quantum initiative is to make emerging technologies accessible to researchers, helping them accelerate their scientific work with an eye to building a quantum-ready workforce.
The training linked to quantum is also critical in preparing the research community for the future when this emerging branch of computing becomes mainstream.
Sustainability remains vital to Pawsey – we have broken new ground in energy sustainability while training researchers to use systems efficiently, improving their code to help them accelerate science while reducing emissions.
Researchers porting complex code used in ion-atom collision physics to run on powerful GPUs is one such example – this complex action represents a major leap forward in research, with simulations able to be run 68 times more efficiently and 77 times faster.
We also continue to play an important role in advocating for investment in the skills and software development platforms needed for Australian research.
Pawsey will play a crucial role in aiding Australia's national research communities, as well as supporting the SKA project, ensuring its continued growth and operational success.
These lessons have built resilience and the groundwork for the future, as we start planning for the next phase of infrastructure investment to support advanced computational science.
Pawsey is a platform for encouraging the adoption of emerging technologies such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, and quantum computing to push the boundaries of research.
Pawsey can influence both Australia's quantum strategy and our investment in artificial intelligence. We want to continue to deliver high-impact science, in areas like climate modelling, in digital twinning, and biomedical research.
But we are not standing
still. We are seeking continued investment to sustain our position as
a globally competitive supercomputing centre.
Tim Shanahan
Chairman
It's been a capstone year
for Pawsey.
Our work is underpinned by a team who truly believe in the mission of what we were established to do, and the communities that we serve.
We continue to provide world-class infrastructure and services to Australia’s research community, as we have over the last decade, but we also deliver benefit by providing a considerable amount of the national compute resource.
Mark Stickells
CEO
Pawsey is meeting the needs of Australian science at a scale not previously possible.
Thanks to significant investment in our high-performance computing and data storage, we have world-leading infrastructure that has been co-designed with many in our community, which we continue to tune for optimal performance.
Creating a platform today for the science of tomorrow comes with challenges — but we have learned to adapt as we go, evolving both code and systems so that our infrastructure can scale to meet demand.