A NICTA spin-off company, Monitoring Division, has developed a new fibre optic monitoring system that could help bring Australia broadband users closer to the rest of the world.
The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) and SGI Australia have signed a supercomputing deal designed to increase the nation's understanding of issues such as climate change and the origin of galaxies.
Two years after its first attempt fell short, Red Hat is trying again to reach beyond its own employees for help developing its Linux line.
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing Limited (VPAC), has launched the VPAC BioPlatform in Melbourne. The launch was undertaken with VPAC's partners in the project, BioMelbourne Network and the Victorian Bioinformatics Consortium.
Australia's supercomputing partnerships are collectively spending tens of millions of dollars on new equipment.
A group of researchers have found a way to transfer the equivalent of three DVDs per second.
Distributed computing, which harnesses the power of multiple CPUs, grew out of scientists' and academics' needs for processing power, but it is rapidly developing commercial applications. ZDNet Australia examines the power grid.
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Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
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