The Australian National HPC Centre for SKA Science Forum
As part of its "Super Science Initiative" announced in May's budget, the Commonwealth Government has allocated $80 million to iVEC to establish a petascale supercomputing facility located at the Australian Resources Research Centre in Perth.
The Centre will be developed over four years and will involve an expansion of iVEC's current capacity, the construction of a state-of-the-art data centre and the design and commissioning of a petascale supercomputer in the new data centre.
In deciding to fund this Centre, the Commonwealth Government has made it clear that, in addition to making a significant contribution to SKA science, the centre will be a world class hub for high performance computing that will support high end research in many disciplines.

Forum Program
17th August 2009
Time
Topic
Presenter
9:00 Introduction Mal Bryce
9:10 Commonwealth Government Perspective David Luchetti
9:30 National eResearch Perspective Dr Rhys Francis
10:00 Implementation of the Centre Prof. Andrew Rohl
BREAK
11:00 Radio Astronomy in a Petascale World Prof. Peter Quinn
11:30 Computational Materials Science at the Petascale Prof. Julian Gale
12:00 The Barriers to Industrial CFD on Large-Scale Systems Gary Brown
LUNCH
1:30 PARALLEL WORKSHOPS
Radio Astronomy Computational Science and Engineering Industry and Government
BREAK
4:00 Report back:
  • Radio Astronomy
  • Computational Science and Engineering
  • Industry and Government
4:30 Discussion
SUNDOWNER