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

CSIRO ASC's largest site is located at the Bureau of Meteorology's Docklands facility at 700 Collins Street in Melbourne, Victoria.

Pictured above: Internode Crossbar Switch cabinets
of the NEC SX-6

NEC SX-6 supercomputer

We provide access to the Bureau of Meteorology/CSIRO HPCCC facilities. The HPCCC's NEC SX-6 parallel vector supercomputer has 224 processors with 1.8 terabytes of memory and 22 terabytes of user disk capacity. One of the few world class computer resources in Australia, able to sustain a high proportion of its peak of 1.8 teraflop/s. More information...

SGI Altix NUMA ia64

This machine currently 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. Also a serious compute server for those not requiring vector capability. The Altix is tightly coupled with the CSIRO Data Store. More information...

CSIRO Data Store

The Altix machine has 38 terabytes of disc and hosts a hierarchical data store with data on 6 terabytes of high-performance disk being staged to or from cache disc and magnetic tape cartridges in automatic tape libraries as required. The tape libraries have capacities in excess of 1 petabyte. More information...

IBM blade 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...

CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility

The CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility provides 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...

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...

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...