Facilities


The Centre is uniquely resourced with facilities unlike any other astrophysics research group in the country.

Supercomputing

The Centre runs and owns one of the most powerful supercomputers in Australia. The system is fully integrated suite of Dell PowerEdge servers housing 64-bit quad-core Clovertown technology. The supercomputer comprises over 1000 processors (a theoretical 10 Teraflop machine). This massive processing power is connected with a state of art networking infrastructure built on gigabit ethernet and a large collection of high speed disk arrays. The Centre also has close ties with the Victorian & Australian Partnerships for Advanced Computing (VPAC & APAC).

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Visualisation

Located at the Centre is the Swinburne Virtual Reality Theatre which houses immersive visualisation facilities. Supported by a visualisation research staff, the Centre has the ability to use the power of 3D visualisation to analyse, interpret and explain complex 3D datasets for reserch and public outreach.

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