Life Members Affinity Group - The UQ Supercomputer - What Bunya Does
Prof David Abramson, Director of UQ's Research Computing Centre talks about the ways supercomputing helps researchers solve problems.
In December 2022 the University of Queensland launched its new supercomputer, Bunya, replacing its three previous high performance computers. It is now being used by the research community solving problems in many fields, from the sciences to the humanities.
Professor David Abramson is director of UQ's research computing centre. His talk will focus, not on the technology of the machine, but will, rather, focus on the way in which access to high performance computing in an integral part of making progress in many different fields.
David is a fellow of the IEEE, ACM, ATSE and ACS. He was recently awarded the ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award for his work in parallel and distributed computing.
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- Date: 24 Oct 2023
- Time: 03:00 AM UTC to 04:30 AM UTC
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- University of Queensland, Saint Lucia Campus
- Staff House Road, St Lucia
- Brisbane, Queensland
- Australia
- Building: Axon Building (47)
- Room Number: 505
- Starts 01 October 2023 04:05 AM UTC
- Ends 24 October 2023 03:00 AM UTC
- No Admission Charge
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1pm - Professor Abramson will give his talk. After the talk, life members will be able to socialize and plan future activities. The group will walk to a campus catering venue for afternoon tea.
If you would like to hear this talk, but cannot make it on the specified date, then please let John Gough john@atwell-gough.com know. It may be possible to make this a hybrid event, allowing virtual attendance as well.