Notices and News of the ANU Supercomputer Facility

Since ANUSF is responsible for the APAC National Facility, most relevant notices and news can be found in the National Facility's notices and news.

Local ANU Notices:

Information Session on HPC Future at ANUSF


Thursday 4 June 209 2-3 pm

Leonard Huxley Lecture Theatre

The ANU Supercomputer Facility (also NCI National Facility) plans to install a large Sun system to provide high performance computing resources for Australian researchers. At this session Dr Ben Evans, head of ANUSF, will introduce the new machine and Marc Hamilton from Sun Microsystems will talk about Sun's future plans in HPC.

Marc Hamilton is Vice President of Americas Systems Practice in Sun's Global Sales and Service organization. In this role, he is responsible for all systems sales in the Americas. Prior to his current role, Marc Hamilton was VP of Solaris marketing. He has over 14 years of experience at Sun and previously was responsible for developing Sun's HPC, Web, and Data Center Virtualization solutions. In that role he oversaw the development of the fastest supercomputer in Asia, at Tokyo Institute of Technology, and the first industry standard supercomputer designed to achieve over 1/2 Petaflop of performance at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC).