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  • ANU plans $50m supercomputer spend

    National Computational Infrastructure (NCI), part of the Australian National University (ANU), is working towards a contract with the Federal Government that will see $50 million spent on a new datacentre and supercomputer by 2012.

  • Meteorology building $30m supercomputer

    Australia's Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian National University this morning revealed they had inked a four-year, $30 million deal with Sun Microsystems to build a new high-performance computing (HPC) system to support weather forecasting.

  • Better weather on the way with BOM supercomputer

    The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM), alongside the CSIRO, is on the hunt for a supercomputer to help improve weather forecasting and to map the effects of global warming.

  • UPDATE: Aust supercomputer to boost weather forecasting

    The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is acquiring a new supercomputer designed to enhance its weather and climate forecasting services.

  • BoM: Forecasting data storage needs

    Dealing with unimaginable amounts of data can be extremely tough for any organisation. Take a look at how Australia's Bureau of Meteorology keeps its head above water.

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