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The High Performance Computing and Communications Centre (HPCCC) is a collaboration of the Bureau of Meteorology (the Bureau) and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
The facility was founded in 1997 to provide economies of scale for the acquisition and operations of high performance and supercomputing equipment to serve both organisations. The Centre is jointly staffed from the Bureau and CSIRO, and is co-located with the Bureau Head Office at the Docklands in Melbourne.
The HPCCC provides a unique supercomputing infrastructure that provides 24 hour per day, 365 days per year service availability to support the Bureau's operational forecasting and disaster response services while also providing the flexibility and top end sustainable performance needed by the researchers of both organisations.
The focus of research conducted on HPCCC equipment is weather forecasting, climate studies including global warming and El Ninõ effects, air quality, and oceanic phenomenon. A wide variety of other studies are conducted in such diverse disciplines as antenna design, molecular modelling, and virtually any endeavour undertaken by CSIRO scientists. The HPCCC entertains use of our systems for Australian academic and industrial use on a case by case basis. For
information contact the HPCCC manager.
Overall strategic direction and management policies of the HPCCC are overseen by a Steering Committee consisting of Bureau and CSIRO senior management, working with the HPCCC's day-to-day management group.
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