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.
// The infinitesimal edge of science
small
CASE STUDY
Explore our other frontiers
Our work in quantum
Pawsey is extending its national supercomputing and quantum computing innovation hub, piloting new projects and developing quantum applications.
Among our new collaborations in 2024 is with QuEra Computing, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, that recognises training and education are the foundation for building domain knowledge.
The partnership will provide Pawsey with private cloud access to QuEra’s neutral-atom-based quantum computers, which helps establish a national quantum ecosystem.
The team at Pawsey is proud to support Australia’s quantum community and the delivery of a national strategy that underpins the development of this sector in coming years.
In 2023, for example, we received a $5 million grant from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program that will enable Pawsey to continue to expand its innovation in this field.
Collaboration efforts are not limited to Australia – we have teamed up with quantum leaders and innovators from the UK, Canada, Finland, Germany and Uruguay.
Our alliance with Canada’s Xanadu allows us to test the capabilities of integrating high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing technologies.
How quantum can change the world
Finance, and more.
Medicine
Life sciences
Astronomy
We are working with leading quantum research organisations and computing companies to explore ways that high-performance computing work together — a collaboration that holds great promise for the way we tackle challenging computation problems.
After launching the world’s first diamond-based quantum computer operating at room temperature in 2022, we have built on this reputation and now partner with 10 quantum groups and sector leaders from Australia, the US, Canada, and Germany.
Realising these opportunities will require quantum computing to be embedded in other scientific domains, with applications in…
Grain
of salt
Human hair
red blood
cell
Bacterium
Virus
atom
Protein
To understand the scale of quantum, imagine this is an atom. It is measured in nanometres. It is 10 times smaller than a protein, 1000 times smaller than a bacterium, and a million times smaller than a single grain of salt.
// How small is small?
Quantum computing operates at the smallest imaginable scales, exploring realms where traditional computing cannot go.
Quantum computers leverage quantum bits or qubits, which can represent both one and zero at the same time, unlike classical computing in which data is binary — a one or a zero but not both.
This means quantum computers can compress calculations that might take years for traditional supercomputers into weeks or months.
Quantum is a complementary technology and Pawsey provides a testbed for the integration between quantum computing and traditional computing, engaging with emerging researchers to explore possibilities that were once unthinkable.
// The infinitesimal edge of science
SMALL
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
CASE STUDY
Our work in quantum
Pawsey is extending its national supercomputing and quantum computing innovation hub, piloting new projects and developing quantum applications.
Among our new collaborations in 2024 is with QuEra Computing, a global leader in neutral-atom quantum computing, that recognises training and education are the foundation for building domain knowledge.
The partnership will provide Pawsey with private cloud access to QuEra’s neutral-atom-based quantum computers, which helps establish a national quantum ecosystem.
The team at Pawsey is proud to support Australia’s quantum community and the delivery of a national strategy that underpins the development of this sector in coming years.
In 2023, for example, we received a $5 million grant from the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS) program that will enable Pawsey to continue to expand its innovation in this field.
Collaboration efforts are not limited to Australia – we have teamed up with quantum leaders and innovators from the UK, Canada, Finland, Germany and Uruguay.
Our alliance with Canada’s Xanadu allows us to test the capabilities of integrating high-performance computing (HPC) and quantum computing technologies.
How quantum can change the world
Finance, and more.
Medicine
Life sciences
Astronomy
We are working with leading quantum research organisations and computing companies to explore ways that high-performance computing work together — a collaboration that holds great promise for the way we tackle challenging computation problems.
After launching the world’s first diamond-based quantum computer operating at room temperature in 2022, we have built on this reputation and now partner with 10 quantum groups and sector leaders from Australia, the US, Canada, and Germany.
Realising these opportunities will require quantum computing to be embedded in other scientific domains, with applications in…
Grain
of salt
Human hair
red blood
cell
Bacterium
Virus
atom
Protein
To understand the scale of quantum, imagine this is an atom. It is measured in nanometres. It is 10 times smaller than a protein, 1000 times smaller than a bacterium, and a million times smaller than a single grain of salt.
// How small is small?
Quantum computing operates at the smallest imaginable scales, exploring realms where traditional computing cannot go.
Quantum computers leverage quantum bits or qubits, which can represent both one and zero at the same time, unlike classical computing in which data is binary — a one or a zero but not both.
This means quantum computers can compress calculations that might take years for traditional supercomputers into weeks or months.
Quantum is a complementary technology and Pawsey provides a testbed for the integration between quantum computing and traditional computing, engaging with emerging researchers to explore possibilities that were once unthinkable.