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The APAC National Facility has been established to provide an internationally competitive computational resource for Australian researchers. The APAC Merit Allocation Scheme allows researchers to access the APAC National Facility based on merit and free of charge. Applications are now called for awards of computer time under this Scheme for the period of Jan 2004 - Dec 2004. The closing date for applications is 12 November 2003. For further information: click here
OzViz Workshop OzViz 03 is being held on 1 and 2 December at the University of Melbourne. This workshop will be held in the spirit of previous workshops: short, practical presentation by people who are active practictioners in the visualization field. The aim of the workshops is to bring together visualization practitioners from Australia and New Zealand in order to share their ideas and work. For further information: click here
ac3 Supercomputer Breaks Teraflop Barrier The new Dell cluster computer has completed its benchmark testing, and weighs in at a sustained 1095 gigaflops on Linpack tests. ac3 are thrilled to have passed the teraflop barrier! Click here for technical details
ac3 seminer - Connecting the Future 03 ac3 is holding a one-day seminar titled "Connecting the Future 03" on October 2nd, 2003. The seminar is presented by ac3 in cooperation with the Internet Society and the Smart Internet Cooperative Research Centre. For further information: click
here TPAC joins National Virtual Oceanographic Server The National Virtual Oceanographic Server is a distributed data server that serves the oceanographic community with a very broad range of products. For further information: click here
The APAC Board has issued a call for organisations wanting to be a partner in the next stage of APAC (2004-2006). The following documents relate to the call:
Closing date for responses is 2.00pm AEST, 10 October 2003.
The supercomputer will also have 300GB of memory, 1.2TB of storage, and run Red Hat Linux with a 2.4 series kernel. The Australian Research Council (ARC) and a consortium of NSW universities including the UTS, Sydney University, and UNSW jointly fund ac3. Professor Ross McPhedran from the Sydney University Physics department is one of the principal instigators behind the project. The system, to be supplied by Dell, is being funded by an initial $500,000 grant from ARC with further funding to be supplied by the university consortium. The new Linux cluster will join ac3's impressive family of high-performance computing hardware including an NEC SX-5 vector computer and a 64-processor SGI Origin 2400. To view the press release:
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APAC Linux Cluster
now 50% bigger ! The APAC linux cluster lc.apac.edu.au
has been upgraded from 100 to 150 processors.
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