CSIRO Advanced Scientific Computing welcomes you

Welcome to CSIRO Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC), providing access to:

• High performance computing and data storage facilities
• A large range of a commercial and open source software
• User application and software support

Facilities available

Pictured above: SUN Constellation at the NCI-NF

NCI National Facility

CSIRO is a partner in the NCRIS National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) scheme, and has access to the systems at the NCI National Facility. More information...

Bureau of Meterology SUN Constellation

The SUN constellation system provides compute services to the BoM operational weather forecasting services and the Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR), a partnership between the Bureau of Meterology and CSIRO. More information...

CSIRO ASC SGI Altix NUMA ia64

This machine is a large shared memory multiprocessor which has 128 processor cores (Itanium Dual-Core 1.67 GHz) and 512 Gbyte of memory. The low latency, high bandwidth interconnect allows shared or distributed memory processing. The Altix is tightly coupled with the CSIRO ASC Data Store. More information...

CSIRO ASC Data Store

CSIRO ASC provides a facility for long-term storage of large amounts of science data. The store is accessible either from Linux on the CSIRO ASC SGI Altix, or from CSIRO Windows systems including desktops.

The underlying file system has been in existence since 1990, and has been on four sites, has had five hosts, and has used 9 types of tape technology to extend the disc to provide a virtually 'infinite' amount of capacity for users. More information...

CSIRO ASC Compute Cluster

A commodity cluster of about 123 dual processor nodes. The cluster is available for general purpose use by all CSIRO ASC registered users. Specific research groups that have co-invested with ASC have priority access to portions of the cluster. More information...

CSIRO GPU Cluster

CSIRO's latest supercomputer cluster will be among the world's first to combine traditional CPUs with more powerful graphics processing units or GPUs, providing a world class computational and simulation science facility to advance priority CSIRO science. More information...

Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics

The Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics (QFAB) provides a compute cluster and a variety of bioinformatics tools and databases for all interested CSIRO scientists. More information...

Condor Cycle Harvesting

Condor has been setup to take advantage of the large number of Windows desktop PCs across CSIRO. More information...

iVEC Facility

CSIRO is a partner in iVEC, with ASC contributing to the purchase of their Altix system in Western Australia. More information...

TPAC Facility

CSIRO is a partner in TPAC (Tasmania Partnership of Advanced Computing), who have an Altix system in Tasmania. More information...