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The Western Australia Supercomputer Program (WASP) facility is located at The University of Western Australia.

The Western Australian Supercomputer Program has been established to provide an internationally competitive computational resource for Australian researches. The WASP promotes research and teaching by integrating leading edge advanced computing and visualisation for research and academic staff and students of The University of Western Australia (UWA), as well as advance disciplinary diversity, partnerships and excellence. The WASP facilitates research and aid in educational advancement by integrating leading edge, supercomputer and scientific visualisations to individual administrative units, as well as multidisciplinary units across campus. The WASP embraces this disciplinary diversity by creating partnerships, supporting and servicing supercomputer needs on campus. It also ensures that UWA retains superior computing and visualisation facilities. As a facility of IVEC, the WASP is one of Australia's most prestigious and internationally competitive supercomputer and scientific visualisation centres.