CSIRO puts up to $30m towards faster supercomputer


Australia’s science agency has put up to $30 million on the table to replace its ageing supercomputer system so scientists can do things like forecast weather, sequence DNA and simulate the forces of physics more quickly.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has released a tender to replace its Canberra-based high-performance CPU cluster, known as Petrichor.

A CPU cluster is a large system of computers that allows researchers …

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