Welcome to TPAC

Computer Modelling: Annual-mean surface air temperature from the CSIRO Mk3L atmosphere model (40 year average).

Climate Change Research: Front of the Amery ice shelf (east Antarctica): the ocean circulation underneath the shelf is very important for determining where the ice shelf melts and where refreezing occurs. Climate Change Research: Front of the Amery ice shelf (east Antarctica): the ocean circulation underneath the shelf is very important for determining where the ice shelf melts and where refreezing occurs.

The Tasmanian Partnership for Advanced Computing (TPAC) is part of the Australian network of advanced computing facilities, and is a member of the Australian Research Collaboration Service (ARCS) who aim to provide long-term eResearch support services for the Australian research community with a particular focus on interoperability and collaboration infrastructure, tools, services and support.

TPAC is located at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, and its partners are the University of Tasmania, CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research, the Australian Government Antarctic Division, Antarctic Climate & Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre (ACE CRC), Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, and the Australian Maritime College.

TPAC provides expertise and high performance computing facilities to the Australian and International research community. TPAC supports Australian researchers and industry through:

Computational Tools & Techniques program;
Educational, Outreach & Training program;
Grid program;
High Performance Computing;
Research Consultancy;
Commercial Users.

Our current facility consists of a 128 processor SGI Altix 4700 (~0.8 Tflops) with a 350 Terabyte SAN/robotic tape silo system plus a share of the APAC national facility located at the Australian National University (~10.7 Tflop, 1.2 Petabytes).