CRRI won a
grant from the Federal Government in 2001 to investigate the potential of High
Performance Computing as a driver of technology industries in the city of
Penrith on the fringe of Sydney NSW Australia. A precinct was created linked to
the facilities of the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications (ac3). Funding of $253,000 was provided by the Federal Department of
Workplace
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and Small Business (responsibility subsequently transferred to the Department of Infrasctructure and Regional Development). The summary report - “Transforming
Penrith’s High Performance Computing Node into an Innovation Precinct” can
be downloaded HERE.
The
research aimed to investigate the scope for local business for the use of a
High Performance Computing (HPC) Node located on the University of WesternSydney (UWS) Penrith campus.
The Penrith
HPC Node was one of 4 ‘regional access nodes’ to a central supercomputing facility
at ac3 in Redfern at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. The
ac3 facility was part of the Australian
Program for Advanced Computing network. This was a national network of
‘centres of excellence’ in advanced computing. The relationship between the
Penrith Node, the ac3 facility and APAC was foundational to the Penrith centre
that was evaluated.
This research
explored the nature of the business needs first, so that the design of
the Node facility could accurately respond to local need and help to stimulate future
business potential.
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