National Computational Infrastructure

Providing Australian researchers with world-class high-end computing services

Facilities and Services

Specialised Support

The Specialised Support program is intended to support the development of software tools to improve particular applications or to provide targeted user support for particular user communities.

As with the Specialised Facilities Program, the primary driver for the establishment of a Specialised Support project is the need and demand from particular research communities.

At its 18 March 2009 meeting, the Steering Committee agreed to the implementation of the Specialised Support program with a budget of $2M for 2010-11. The program comprises support for:

  • the earth systems science community, as well as the Super Science Initiative announced in the 2009 Commonwealth budget,
  • astronomy, which has been developed in consultation with the research community through Astronomy Australia, and
  • data-intensive computation, with an emphasis on cloud computing services.

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NCI’s advanced computing infrastructure, comprising a petascale HPC system, a large-scale compute cloud (primarily for data-intensive services), and multi-petabyte high-performance storage, is funded through programs of the Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education, while its operations are sustained through the substantial co-investment by a number of partner organisations including ANU, CSIRO, the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Geoscience Australia and a number of Australia’s research-intensive universities through the Australian Research Council.

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