Think of a computing process underpinned by masses of complex data – such as modelling planet-wide shifts in climate or simulating the detonation of an atomic bomb. The process is known as supercomputing, and it’s run on a powerful system working at its maximum potential performance – a supercomputer.
Dr Karen Lee-Waddell (Director of the Australian SKA regional centre, and Project Scientist for WALLABY, the all-sky neutral hydrogen survey that is being conducted on the CSIRO’s new telescope, the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder), Professor Sean Smith (Director of the NCI and conjointly Professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the ANU) and Ivan Galea (Vice President, Analytics and Data Science at Atlassian) join our host Professor Alan Duffy (Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology and Lead Scientist of the Royal Institution of Australia) to discuss the very big analysis machines we turn to in order consider the world’s, and science’s, very big questions.Find the science of everything at cosmosmagazine.com
