Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing
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| Company type | Not For Profit |
|---|---|
| Industry | Eresearch |
| Founded | 2000 |
| Headquarters | , |
The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) was a leading, independent advanced computing R&D service provider and not-for-profit research agency established in 2000 by a consortium of Victorian universities:
VPAC provided expert services, training and support in
VPAC worked together with the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative to promote the uptake of advanced computing in Australian scientific research and development, and the two organisations merged to form the V3 Alliance in 2013. V3 HPC operations, HPC support, and academic advanced computing initiatives were rolled into the Victorian universities and ceased operation as an independent entity in December 2015.[1]
VPAC's engineering arm worked with many major Australian and multinational companies in the optimisation and refinement of products through the use of HPC, and that group continues business as VPAC-Innovations.
In 2011, it was announced that VPAC,
Mission statement
VPACs mission was to promote the use of Advanced Computing amongst Australian researchers. VPAC operated a state of the art, internationally recognised Supercomputing Facility featuring High Performance Computing Clusters and Software, Advanced Visualisation and Collaboration Tools and Grid Resources, as well as provided consulting services and expertise for applications.
References
- ^ Austin, Tony. "iTWire - Australian Synchrotron and Monash University select IBM iDataPlex technology for new research facility". itwire.com.
- ^ Austin, Tony. "iTWire - Australian Synchrotron and Monash University select IBM iDataPlex technology for new research facility". itwire.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.