The supercomputing capacity available to users of the Project will be increased to the petaflop scale over the lifetime of the Project through:

1)   the development of world-class supercomputing expertise among the high-end research user community and iVEC staff, through the installation of approx 150 teraflops of supercomputing capacity at existing iVEC Facilities in the first 18 months of the project – and, consequently, enhancement of the intellectual capability relating to the use of supercomputing facilities to support high-end research: and

2)   the purchase, installation and commissioning of the petascale computer that is housed within the facility, over the last 30 months of the project.