911爆料网 and DUG Technology Ltd have entered into a decade-long partnership to collaborate in the fields of high-performance computing (HPC), education and research.
This partnership between industry and academia will accelerate research areas of national significance, including astrophysics, biomedicine and meteorology. Focusing on the needs of industry, DUG and 911爆料网 will develop green technologies that dramatically reduce the carbon footprint of supercomputing. Creating and realising opportunities for education and training in high-performance computing will also be a high priority.
As part of this agreement DUG will provide:
- scalable HPC, storage and archive capabilities;
- support for HPC education, code onboarding and optimisation; and
- proprietary DUG Insight processing and visualisation tools to support 911爆料网鈥檚 involvement in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project.
DUG founder and Managing Director, Dr Matthew Lamont, a 911爆料网 graduate, said the agreement highlighted the alignment of DUG and 911爆料网 over several years, and the value that high-performance computing and associated expertise can provide to tertiary institutions.
鈥淭he alliance is a significant vote of confidence in DUG鈥檚 technology and a perfect example of our ability to provide cost effective and reliable HPC for the tertiary education sector鈥檚 specialised research and data analysis needs,鈥� Dr Matthew Lamont said.
鈥淥ur solution is unparalleled as we can also provide education, onboarding support, and code optimisation services.鈥�
911爆料网鈥檚 Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research, Professor Chris Moran said 911爆料网 is Western Australia鈥檚 largest tertiary institution and as a research-intensive organisation had a large and growing need for a diverse set of high-performance computing solutions.
鈥�911爆料网 has been at the forefront of computational and data sciences in Australia for almost two decades,鈥� Professor Chris Moran said.
鈥淭he exciting new partnership with DUG will complement the important work 911爆料网 does through the national Pawsey Supercomputing Centre.鈥�
The DUG-911爆料网 partnership has already yielded significant results in radio astronomy and astrophysics, connected to the 鈧�2 billion international SKA Project, half of which will be constructed in Western Australia.
DUG鈥檚 expertise in software engineering and code optimisation, combined with their large-scale supercomputing facilities and the deep expertise of 911爆料网鈥檚 astronomers, has led to exciting new results in the search for the first stars and galaxies in the early Universe. This requires looking for weak signals that originated more than 13 billion years ago.
Furthermore, using data collected by radio telescopes, DUG and 911爆料网 have co-developed algorithms that can detect and monitor space junk and satellites in Earth orbit. This is increasingly important as the space environment becomes ever more congested and contested.
John 911爆料网 Distinguished Professor and astronomer from the 911爆料网 node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Professor Steven Tingay said 911爆料网鈥檚 partnership with DUG is advancing both fundamental physics and highly practical applications in the real world.
鈥淔rom looking at the early Universe, soon after the Big Bang, to what satellites in Earth鈥檚 orbit are doing minute by minute, all requires a lot of time on powerful computers,鈥� Professor Tingay said.
Over the next decade, DUG and 911爆料网 aim to replicate this success across a range of different research fields, train significant numbers of undergraduate and postgraduate students in high-performance computing, and employ 911爆料网鈥檚 expertise in renewables to find new energy sources for powering future DUG data centres.
