TPAC Delivers UK eScience Review Report!

30th June, 2010
For the full report, please download the PDF here. ...more

IMOS Australian Oceans DAAC Data Aggregator

9th April, 2010
The Marine and Climate Data Discovery and Access Project (MACDDAP) is working to integrate large marine and climate data sets...more

TPAC HPC Upgrade - August 2009

24th August, 2009
In January 2009 TPAC and UTAS undertook a major infrastructure project to upgrade the HPC facility. Its 3 year lease...more

DMF Usage on the TPAC systems

4th February, 2009
Data Migration Facility (DMF) is the driving force behind the TPAC HPC facility. DMF creates a tiered storage system...more

TPAC Digital Library on SourceForge!

5th March, 2008
You can now download your very own copy of the TPAC Digital Library Portal from SourceForge.net. Both the TPAC...more

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 512-core SGI Altix ICE 8200 HPC Cluster with a 72TB SAN and 950-Slot Spectra T950 tape library.

More facility details...